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Album	You	Global	Diff
Scum Napalm Death	5	2.08	+2.92
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	5	2.92	+2.08
I Against I Bad Brains	5	2.93	+2.07
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	5	3.12	+1.88
Younger Than Yesterday The Byrds	5	3.13	+1.87
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	5	3.2	+1.8
Goo Sonic Youth	5	3.24	+1.76
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	1	3.42	-2.42
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
O.G. Original Gangster Ice T	1	2.98	-1.98
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	1	2.87	-1.87
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	1	2.87	-1.87
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	1	2.87	-1.87
Club Classics Vol. One Soul II Soul	1	2.82	-1.82
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.65	-1.65
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	1	2.6	-1.6

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	2	5
Elliott Smith	2	5
Metallica	2	5
The Rolling Stones	5	4.2

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Popular Reviews

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke · 1 likes

3/5

One classic song and the rest kind of average but still fun to listen to.

Abbey Road

Beatles · 1 likes

5/5

Simply one of the best albums of all times. You need to listen to it multiple times to discover it in full and still you will find something new.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young · 1 likes

4/5

Always liked the quiet, folksy stuff more than the "grungy" things he did later...

1-Star Albums (10)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

Joan Baez

2/5

Nice songs, terrible tremolo

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Classic rock'n'roll.

War

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Some nice and some very enerving tracks.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

One classic song and the rest kind of average but still fun to listen to.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Obviously a classic, but in the lookback nothing special, really dusty old fashioned hardrock, would not even call it metal except for some ball busted screams.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Did not make it through. Had just the remixes but not my cup of tea. D&B.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

Really great album with very good production for that time.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Has some hits but the rest is pretty mediocre.

2112

Rush

4/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

5/5

Really great album which has a wide range of styles, songs, nice lyrics and melodies.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

5/5

Great songwriting and for that time even greater innovations. Same level as the Beatles.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Simply one of the best albums of all times. You need to listen to it multiple times to discover it in full and still you will find something new.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Well, one or two highlights do not make a good album...

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Pretty nice and innovative with crazy lyrics and awsome rhythms.

The Stone Roses

2/5

One hit and the rest is quite boring.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Well, what is left to say...legendary.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

Not really interesting.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Legendary album by a legendary artist. Blueprint for so many punk bands by music and attitude.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Nice and smooth.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Absolutely astonishing album, so many rhythms, beautiful soundscapes, styles of songs and fabulous arrangements. In my top 10 of all time.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Could not really listen to the album but from what I have heard this was a little bit chaotic and not really my style, could be nice though for people who like a mashup of ska, oriental style, electro, hiphop etc.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Great album and still nice to listen to.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Well, if you are really into bongos...

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Well not much to say about this. Started the whole electronic music scene basically. Like the german version better though.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

It is a great album with classic, iconic songs, but there are songs and lyrics which did not age so well, maybe it needs some more decades to make it "it fitted for its time"...

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

4/5

Really nice slacker music with great melodies.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

RIP Ozzy and thanks for this fabulous album which helped to start a completely new genre of music.

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

What a bunch of crap...

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Nice album, maybe needs to grow.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Not the best of Bowie but really nice!

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Pretty basic.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Nice.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Nice album for grown ups

Adele

5/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

Never listened to them but they are quite cool! Not fitting in any category but lot of groove and nice melodies.

Common

5/5

Wow...

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Great album, great band, great producer.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Well, some nice beats but in the end very conform over album length.

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Well, it is the Beatles but it is not their best album for me, great songs on it but sometimes quite weird and all over the place.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Nice album of the godfather of grunge who shows why he is called like that. If you don't like his voice you will give this a 1 start, otherwise you cannot deny his capability of writing great songs.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

1/5

I always hated tainted love which ran on every party and did not fit my music taste every so I am biased completely but I cannot listen to this longer than a few minutes...

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Nice rock album, kind of cabaret style with entertaining lyrics which sometimes did not age well...

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

1/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Really nice and weird. Sets standards for its time.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Great album among many of Elliot Smith. What a loss.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Nice music.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Well...not really into this stuff

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Kind of exchangable. Did not catch me,

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Constant cursing and dissing but I am not a hiphop guy anyway, haha...

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Fabulous album but much bluesy stuff which is still great but not as innovative or complex as their later works.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

Well, the voice is really something to get used to, especially in the first song, but the music is awesome and the lyrics quite focused on transsexuality and mental health. Liked to listen to it a lot.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

1/5

Well, certainly some hip hop classic but the lyrics aged not well at all...misogynic gangsta shit...some political sprinkles and lot of swearing....what has become of ICE T and his announcements on stage recently shows that this has not changed much...

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Basically sounds and beats...more a film music and very boring

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Yeah, oldie and goldie but kind of lame with some nice songs.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Smooth and great. What else is to say here. Classic.

Boston

3/5

Nice one. Not great but not bad.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Of course one of the great jazz legends. Not so great as giant steps or blue train though.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

Pop.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

1/5

Phew...old, dusty and boring.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

One of the best stones albums, raw, bluesy, not the big hits but so many hidden gems.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

We all know the song...and the rest is unkown for good reasons...

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Not so much into hiphop but enjoyed the versatility and humour of this one...

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Great band, not their best album though, still good.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Dark, progressive for its time but in the end to monotonous.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

Weird stuff...

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

So much talent, beautiful melodies, simply one of the greatest....

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Certainly one of the classics and one of the refreshing attempts to bring new ideas metal which works quite well. Especially the rhythms and drum beats are great.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

Weird, nice and calm.

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Raw, progressive, energetic and ahead of its time.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Nice.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Might be great music to some people...

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

Phew. The legacy of the Pogues is huge especially in Ireland but not really for me...

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

This is the weird Tom Waits. I really like it but not as much as the classic one....

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Nice, calm, full of beautiful melodies.

American Gothic

David Ackles

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Well...mh...don't know what to say...maybe another state of mind would help?

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

Fantastic album with so many nice, calm songs. Allright, this is hippie stuff but still..

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

1/5

Awful...

Goo

Sonic Youth

5/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

Simply one of the greatest...a milestone.

Third

Portishead

4/5

Not as good as the debut but still a very good album.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Kind of nice but a little basic.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Certainly the pioneers of electronic music, techno whatsoever but not my thing...

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

One of their best.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Massive album...

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Great album. Some innovative stuff, some you have already heard but overall they just have their own style which is really nice.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Nice, nerdy and quirky.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Not bad...

Adele

4/5

Hits, hits, hits

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Did not need the farts at the end.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

2/5

Phew...

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Didn't know That'll be the day and Oh boy were from them but one certainly knows those songs...

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

The strings starting....woahhhh

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Always liked the quiet, folksy stuff more than the "grungy" things he did later...

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

Classic rock with filthy lyrics.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Os Mutantes

2/5

Naah...

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

The definition of hard rock.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Classic and fresh at its time.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Phew...slick and silky but not my case...

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

Nice, quite different atmosphere of music from which you know as a "western" music listener but totally relaxing and takes you on a journey.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Surely had its part in starting the punk comeback in the 90s. Nice album.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Iconic songs but some lame stuff too.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Not one of the best albums of all time but one of the most iconic.

I Against I

Bad Brains

5/5

Great great great.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Nice album but solo after solo after solo after ...

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Timeless classic. Arty farty in some way but still legendary.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Phenomenal performance. So intimate and clear.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Nice album but the really good songs are rare.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Really great album. Not their best though.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Please don't...

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

This album has more solos than its playtime...man...neverending and a little annoying...

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Well, Bob Dylan as raw as it gets, a trip to the past but certainly not his best album. Pretty good though.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

Boooring........

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Exceptional guitar play of course but the songs are really outdated dadrock, phew...

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

One of the grunge giants but I liked their second album Jar of flies much more.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Nice and beautiful album of one of the greatest soul musicians.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Quite boring hippie stuff

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Weird...but....no...just weird

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Some of the greatest songs of the stones but also some fillers.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

It doesn't get muddier than this...

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Gneedling around...might be technically great but is too cheesy...

Scum

Napalm Death

5/5

A milestone in brutality and attitude. Also technically quite versatile.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Starts good and then you are suddenly on a medieval market.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Whammy, groovy, laid back...nice!

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Well, not bad but not my cup of tea. Nice background music though.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

Epic sound, epic songs, epic album. They really put their best effort into this and you can hear that they had great fun playing.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

Some nice stuff but in the end outdated, dusty old songs.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

There will never be another guitarist like him...as this fits for almost any guitarist, nothing special, but he was...

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Nice and of course ahead of their time kind of.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Phenomenal album. Still great after all this time. The voice, the arrangements, the melodies....

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Sounds like german "Schlager" african style...phew...

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Country...

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Great album. Lyrics are so outstanding and how could that be played on the radio at that time? Weird...

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Kinda boring, not my thing.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Phonkeeeeey

Scissor Sisters

4/5

Fine glamrock album with lots of little gems, musically and lyrically.

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Surely revolutionary feministic and great at the time but nowadays hard to listen to...

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

One of the great personalities in music history. Much humour, much heart, great music.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Nice music for a massage...but totally missing any relevance...

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Old...and sounds like it.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

One hit wonder but the rest is not so really cool stuff...like T Rex better

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Great, rough, old fashioned but at the same time so fresh and modern.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Classic rock album which defined the path for a lot other bands to follow. The roughness and versatility at the same time are awesome.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

One of their best and most iconic albums.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Not the greatest but not the worst...

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

4/5

Nice and kind of weird.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Absolute "grunge" giants. Throughout great songs and an incredible atmosphere.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

I know this is supposed to be a legend but these lyrics could come from a 13 year old hormone monster...damn stupid bitch hoe my big dick crap...

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Production, music, lyrics, all top notch.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Well..the man is cleary kind of absent...but still some good tunes and fun to listen to, especially when you hear that the band bursts into laughter from time to time. Seems like they had fun recording.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Phew...kind of boring.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Some nice moments but in the end not my stuff. Might be nice for people who like pop.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Astonishingly fresh and good album.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

One of the greatest artists of all time. Hurt and Personal Jesus alone would make this a great album. This fragile voice...

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Kind of average rock stuff...

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Epic album, epic songs. Great art and artists. Design..the whole package. Really like this.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

5/5

Epic album. Still fresh and cool today.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Nice soothing music. Great voice. But really all the same style the whole album.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

What a journey...

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Great pop album.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

5/5

Only knew the hits but wow, this is a really great album...if you like pop music...

The Coral

3/5

Some nice songs but overall...well..

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Great album. Had this rough parts later washed away by smooth pop.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Apart from the classic Papa was a rolling stone, some really cheesy music but also some funky highlights so ambiguous.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Nice metal album. Nothing spectacular though.

Blur

5/5

One of the great britpop albums if not the greatest.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Pretty basic rock album. Sounds too dusty to me...

Ramones

5/5

When it is about punk, this is the album you need to listen to.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Sure, the hits...but the rest is partly unbearable. Such cheesy stuff...

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

1/5

Why did people listen to this?

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

Really great album. Kind of rough, beautiful, melancholic...

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Legendary band but this is really basic old school. Not ahead of its time...

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Great album. Technically so clean which gives it a modern drive as the songs have an old school style.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Nice but not too nice...oldschool rock stuff...

Suicide

3/5

Maybe ahead of its time but the time is yet to come...

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Nice pop album.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

4/5

Raw and rough. Really nice album with lot of power.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

If it would not be for Superstition, this would be much worse. Elevatormusic...

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Legend.