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Album	You	Global	Diff
Scum Napalm Death	5	2.08	+2.92
Slipknot Slipknot	5	2.67	+2.33
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	5	2.86	+2.14
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	2.91	+2.09
Moby Grape Moby Grape	5	2.94	+2.06
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
Make Yourself Incubus	5	3.07	+1.93
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.14	+1.86
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	5	3.15	+1.85
Nothing's Shocking Jane's Addiction	5	3.17	+1.83

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	1	3.7	-2.7
Untitled (Black Is) SAULT	1	3.05	-2.05
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	1	3.03	-2.03
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2	4.02	-2.02
Foxbase Alpha Saint Etienne	1	2.94	-1.94
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	1	2.88	-1.88
Arular M.I.A.	1	2.83	-1.83
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	2	3.81	-1.81
Nixon Lambchop	1	2.75	-1.75
Cut The Slits	1	2.71	-1.71

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Artist	Albums	Average
AC/DC	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Elton John	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Beastie Boys	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Manic Street Preachers	2, 5

5-Star Albums (44)

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Back In Black

AC/DC · 1 likes

5/5

Nothing needs to be said.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles · 1 likes

5/5

I love everything about the beetles they do no wrong in my eyes. All of their music sounds good to me. 5 easy

Timeless

Goldie · 1 likes

1/5

Should be named Time I can't get back

Grace

Jeff Buckley · 1 likes

3/5

I wish Jeff had more to his catalog cause I feel like he was setting up to something great after this album. This albums left a lot to be desired.

1-Star Albums (12)

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

All Ratings

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

Didn't know this was a solo project after Kurt Cobain died I knew it sounded close but never put them together.

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Some songs are actually catchy

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Running up that hill saved this album. Everything else kinda meh and forgettable.

The Stone Roses

3/5

It's fine. Not to crazy and different pretty much sounds the same from everything in this Era.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Hasn't aged well -1 Same beat over and over and over and over. -2

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

1/5

I was more confused what this was

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Not bad for what it is.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

I vibe with these kinda albums. Soild listen.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

Cypress Hill

3/5

Elastica

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Scum

Napalm Death

5/5

Vocals are impressive. Band that started it all.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Straight banger of album. Masterpiece start to finish And Champagne Supernova to finish it off, chefs kiss.

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Live ehhhh. But with instrumental makes up for it having to be live 4 stars forsure

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

Perfect for driving rig in traffic

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

1/5

I feel brain dead listening to this. Songs are just extended for no reason.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Middle of the pack not bad wasnt the best one.

Adele

3/5

Pop hit Can appreciate the vocals definitely got some cord on her.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Cult classic. Suspicious Minds is this album.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Best of its Era Definitely doesn't hold well with age but is good for what it is.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Nothing needs to be said.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

1/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

1/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Old school classic

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

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

Most of it is just random sounds. I couldn't get through the album without my brain hurting. Sliding through most of the songs told me enough.

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

80s mom cleaning the house music

Solid Air

John Martyn

2/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

The United States Of America

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

2010s gen z childhood music

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Easiest 5 star of my life

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

His worst album I think the other ones in his portfolio are better.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Definitely good

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Couple bangers Badly needs a remaster alot of peaking and distortion

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Suprisingly I really liked this Story telling while singing was different pace to what I usually listen to. Easy 4 star

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Was never a fan

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

This hit different

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

Most influential thrash metal albums of all time Blood, Death, Gore and fantastic guitar nothing else needs to be said

Hms Fable

Shack

4/5

Nice chill vibes.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Good mix of gutair and piano Chill shower music

Adele

4/5

Hello was a top hit so I gotta respect it. She also has a great voice.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

First song started out strong then it was fine the rest of the way.

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Microshift

Hookworms

2/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Doesn't sound bad for being live

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

I've never heard of this band before this. Deep dive, incoming. 5 stars

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Early Punk easy 4

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

1/5

No ty

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Gives me Swift vibes

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Would be better if the entire album was here. Still got bangers on it though

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

Laid back folk music not so bad one of the better ones.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

I just like how peaceful saxophones are. 4 stars

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Joan Armatrading

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

1/5

Not a fan of the same beat over and over and over and over and over.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Unique. I like it.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Good background noise 2 star

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

4 pretty good

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

My 70s vibe I'm looking for 4

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Actually don't mind her. Not bad for pop 3

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

This is fine

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

5/5

Wasn't sure what this was till I got to "Ride" Then my childhood bursted back. Smashing the 5 star.

Third

Portishead

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

It was fine. 3 star fine

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Good study music

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Another good background music track

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

It got real Funky real quick

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Easy 5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Kenza

Khaled

4/5

4 star just for imagine cover. Loved that.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Definitely a fan

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

5/5

Wow. Yeap

2112

Rush

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

1/5

I have a better voice and I'm a professional shower singer

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

This one surprised me. None of the songs missed. Deep dive here I come.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Elton John always kills it. Grandmaster of piano.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Iconic

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Yeap

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Destroyer

KISS

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

It's okay

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

Weird and goofy. Yeah I'm a fan. Heard the first song from MTV.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

This album by Bruce is a 5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Slipknot

5/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

4. Only 1 hit that I know but still 70s funk hits hard regardless

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Listening to a lot more music lately I didnt realize how unique this actually is. One of a kind sound.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Like the interview

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Dare!

The Human League

4/5

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Struggled to finish this one. Definitely not a fan. 2 cause I could finish it.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

I love everything about the beetles they do no wrong in my eyes. All of their music sounds good to me. 5 easy

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

As an intro guitar player myself right now starting out I can't give this anything less than a 5. Hendrix took the world by storm and changed the guitar world forever.

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

With this many guitars I can't not give this a 5. Might be a sin if I don't.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Definitely unique and like it that's a 4

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

4 4 the sax. Love sax jazz

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Was gonna give it a 3 but I enjoy the interviews when it comes to talking about how the band started and how they create music. So it's a 4 for me

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Stripped was better

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Honestly thought this would be worse. Has some rock grooves in it

Moby Grape

5/5

Banger

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Alot of iconic songs but wouldn't listen to this on any other day than Christmas. 4

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

It was average sounding the entire way through nothing crazy. 2

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

Definitely 5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

2/5

Album was slow thought it ramp up but never did 2

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Should be named Time I can't get back

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Good background music. Don't like disc one and two are the same other than remaster.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

When I first listened to Bob earlier in the 1001 albums we got Catch a Fire and thought all of his music was like that. Was I very wrong listening to this and his most popular songs. Last one was a 2 cause I think it just wasn't his best album. This one is way better and is a 4 for me.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

War

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

5/5

Love the Police

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

1/5

Hell no

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Chill 4

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

I enjoyed this

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

If I could give this a 10 out of 5 I would.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Definitely 4

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

I'm gonna look further into Jack after that masterpiece.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

B.B King is what I aspire to be in my guitar playing. I'm surprised he was more popular than Freddie King in my opinion he was waaaay better of a player. Still BB desires a 5 from me.

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

4/5

Arular

M.I.A.

1/5

Honestly I didn't think it was creative enough. Even though I listened to it all the way through it was boring and repetitive. Wasn't a fan.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

Wasn't thrilled. Started out slow went on and on.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Wow yeap MJ is a 5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

I wish Jeff had more to his catalog cause I feel like he was setting up to something great after this album. This albums left a lot to be desired.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

Fell off at the end

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Good vibing music. Wouldn't be mad if this was playing at a party or in a bar.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Turn it up all the way and start headbanging.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Not great. I respect it but definitely not my kinda music.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

Cut

The Slits

1/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Another freebie. 5 star.

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

5/5

First surprise. This album is super good then did a little research and figured out this is the front man for The Smiths. Saw he wasn't a very good person but rating this album purely on the music and nothing else and I thought this was a super good album.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

Long but good

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

Coming out of left field with this one. This hit different

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

78 and sounds like that. Aged super well too.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

Crack that to max volume and it don't miss.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Looking at the lyrics of the first song it's more of just how everyone put down blacks in this time period. Northerns and Southerns but yeah yikes using the slur hasn't aged well at all. The rest of the album is fine I definitely wouldn't listen to this one on my own but it was fine to listen to once. 3 stars.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

It wasn't for me. Didn't feel creative enough for the year. 2