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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Van Halen Van Halen	5	3.63	+1.37
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.64	+1.36
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.68	+1.32
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	4	2.84	+1.16
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	5	3.93	+1.07
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	1	4.05	-3.05
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	1	3.32	-2.32
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	1	3.31	-2.31
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	1	3.3	-2.3
The Sensual World Kate Bush	1	3.17	-2.17
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
Rocks Aerosmith	1	3.12	-2.12
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes	1	2.98	-1.98
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	1	2.97	-1.97
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9

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The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy · 1 likes

5/5

This album landed in the perfect time and place for guys born in the mid 80s. A classic nostalgia injection.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit · 1 likes

1/5

There is some nostalgia to this, but it is embarrassingly bad. The worst of their albums that I've heard.

1-Star Albums (18)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Sun, June 1 2025 Not a huge synth pop guy but interesting no less

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Interesting to see this being the origin of many samples for songs in the 90s-00s

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Great album, have always enjoyed this one.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Not much for jazz/lounge music

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Cool sound

Violent Femmes

3/5

Not bad. Pretty well what i expected from the songs that I knew

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

I can see the concept and understand that it's important to the genre, just not my thing.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Great initial offering

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

1/5

Pretty boring. I don't know the history of edm but I'm sure this is important or something.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Great album. Love the harmonies and sound

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Awesome early rock n roll album. Love the guitar work

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

This is one of his more annoying sounding albums

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Aerosmith is not good. There were a couple ok songs on here but I don't and never will appreciate their sound.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

I get it. This album was likely monumental at the time. I also loved the soundtrack for thief and the one with the car on the bridge. But these are way too long.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Cool live album

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Great album. Very distinctive voice

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

I've always maintained that this album is overrated. Still holds true.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Im not sure ZZ top is anyone's favorite band. They are the textbook definition of average rock band

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Pretty solid. Second favorite solo Beatles album

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Not a typical beck album that I'm used to but a really nice chill sound. Would be a good driving around at night album

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

I had never heard of this. It's cheesy as hell. I can see how it influenced rammstein, but it is really not for me.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Pretty standard stuff for the 90s. Not sure I've listened all the way through before

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

I can see how this was premium boning music back in the day

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Cool early album of theirs. Closer to kyuss than modern queens

LP1

FKA twigs

1/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Awesome album. Really cool groove

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

This is my favorite smashing pumpkins album. It is the essence of 90s music.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

This album landed in the perfect time and place for guys born in the mid 80s. A classic nostalgia injection.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

1/5

There are so many boring songs on this album.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

This is an excellent album. Really cool early synth goes well with Numan's singing style. Great listen.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Lovely voice

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

The Doors are a little divisive for me. They have some of thr most boring bluesy rock songs ever, but then some of them are amazing. I like their songs that dive into psych rock a little better but this album only has one of those.

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Cool sound, a little too old school British for my taste.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

This album is almost perfect, aside from the gross oh daddy song

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Much better than her later stuff

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

Not a great offering from Bowie. A little scrambled.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

A little too soft and feely for my liking.

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

The soundtrack of adolescence. Not really very good, but interesting and nostalgic.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

A classic by all accounts

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

A fun listen, 60s music is interesting to dig into

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

My favorite radiohead album. Classic 90s

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

There is some nostalgia to this, but it is embarrassingly bad. The worst of their albums that I've heard.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Started out strong but tapered off. Not bad though still.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Awesome album, great vibe

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Never heard this before, I can see how it got lost in the mix during that time. Not bad overall though.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

This album was either really boring or I just wasn't in the mood for it

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Great voice

Iron Maiden

2/5

Early Iron Maiden pre- Dickinson is not great. Kind of slow and boring

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Cool old sound

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Classic

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

I am not sure who this is for

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Loved this. Great mix of music.

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Great album, I can see how heavily 'life won't wait' was influenced by this

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Pretty standard 60s psych rock

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Pretty laid back 70s album. Effortlessly cool

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

This is easily their best offering. Some real bangers on this one.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Os Mutantes

1/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

Caught somewhere between Nirvana and Weezer.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Great chill vibes

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Possibly the best hard rock album of the 90s

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Not bad, I am not nostalgic about this as I am about 2001 chronic.

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Great vocal driven music. Lovely harmonies.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

I'd like to re-iterate how irritating I find Aerosmith. This is one of the better ones but it's still not really good.

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Pretty folksy

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Better than blonde on blonde due to less whiny voice

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

This was great! Sounds like something the teacher would make the class listen to in Dangerous Minds or any movie like that.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Great unique talent and sound.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

This is the best beasties album, though it is difficult to choose just one.

Debut

Björk

2/5

Interesting voice and style but a little too far out

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

If we're picking genesis albums, this isn't the one. I appreciate the deep cuts and piano heavy rock songs but they have much better albums.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Classic album

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

I didnt think I'd know as many songs on this as I did. Great folk album.

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

Black flag has always been pretty one note to me. But when you're looking for it, it's great.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Great album. I wish more albums were made like this.

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Blur

2/5

I thought i didn't like blur because I liked oasis more. Turns out I just dont like blur.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

2/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Masterful piece of work

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

More hits than misses, and more than I expected

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

1/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

2/5

Never got the hype

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

2/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

This is always an absolute pleasure to listen to

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

1/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

This is one of my favorite albums of all time

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

I can't imagine why this would be on any acclaimed list of any sort.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Almost a 5, some great tracks on here

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

This was mostly great. Love the guitar work.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

This is the second dexys album I've reviewed. Completely different, much better and fun.

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

2 only because this isn't really my type of music. Im sure it is good if that's your sort of thing

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

What a great fucking album.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

The hype around that one song is unfounded. Not even top 3 on this album. That being said, this is just fine.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

A little too ethereal

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

1/5

How the fuck did two albums from these guys get on this list? This sounds like what my aunt would listen to if she was doing mushrooms for the first time

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

The origins of butt rock

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

1/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

1/5

This is in the running for the worst album on this list.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Possibly the best 2 song opening on an album ever.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

1/5

The smiths are so fucking boring. Listening to this album was like hearing the Friends theme song 50 times in a row.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Classic

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Interesting sound on this, not quite jazz but really fun. I dont hate it.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Production wise, it sounds fine. Like most albums of the time. Musically, it is so boring. Every song sounds the same. Good for her for making an album, but it doesn't hold a candle to her earlier works.

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

Really enjoyed this one

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Unremarkable. Rod Stewart has a great voice in his early days

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

This is the first jazz album that i haven't hated. Lively and fun, not annoying jazz.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great bluesy sound. Maybe their best?

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

2/5

This album is so long. Great bang for your buck, if you like the music. Unfortunately I did not for the most part.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

This is elevator music.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Van Halen

5/5

This has to be one of the best debut albums of all time. Very few misses in the track listing. David Lee Roth's vocals and EVH's guitar prowess make this an all time great.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Incredible album. A top 10 for me. No notes.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

I can't believe ive never listened to this front to back. Great flow, love this.

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

This has to be for someone, unironically. I dont get it. Maybe I'm too dumb but it's just kind of noisy in a bad way.

Rocks

Aerosmith

1/5

Fuck. This is the third fucking Aerosmith album ive encountered on this list and I am just not here for it. Aerosmith is low effort trash. They are the grandfathers of butt rock. Aerosmith dads give birth to puddle of mudd kids. Fuck Aerosmith.

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

There were 3 or 4 songs on this that were very good and enjoyable. The other 87 songs were pretty cheesy. Like on fresh prince when Ashley launches her singing career. It reminded me a lot of that.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

This was great, I wish country music was still like this instead of the america loving pop garbage it is now

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

There was one song I enjoyed on this, it seems to be before they got their footing. I enjoy their later stuff much more, this was just noisy for the sake of it.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

I have always found Chicago to be kind of boring