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Album	You	Global	Diff
American Gothic David Ackles	5	2.48	+2.52
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	4	1.91	+2.09
Behaviour Pet Shop Boys	5	3.04	+1.96
Actually Pet Shop Boys	5	3.18	+1.82
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.42	+1.58
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.44	+1.56
Orbital 2 Orbital	4	2.69	+1.31
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	4	2.75	+1.25
Damaged Black Flag	4	2.86	+1.14

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Pet Shop Boys	2	5

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American Gothic

David Ackles · 3 likes

5/5

A brilliantly dramatic album where each song tells a story that looks inside the lives of several people across the American plains. Very musical coded in the best way possible. Unexpected 5 stars.

Mothership Connection

Parliament · 1 likes

4/5

First album down (5th June 2025). Man does this thing GROOVE. I’ve never listened to much funk before outside the RHCP and I don’t know why because this album is the epitome of sex appeal and I’m getting jiggy with it. Note to self: listen to funk more. 8/10, too much funk for its own good. I got funk-saturated.

Palo Congo

Sabu · 1 likes

3/5

A lot of reviews here complain that it’s just congas. While this is true, what’s wrong with a bit of percussion? I think you just have to go into the album wanting a fun time to enjoy it. It’s literally music made for dancing to. With that said, too much conga for me.

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Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Pretty decent. Some good songs but other than the unexpected instruments it was just regular 2000s rock

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Great album and probably now my second favourite hiphop album behind the low end theory. Like other hiphop albums though I feel like it suffers from being too long but that’s just me :/

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Pretty sick chewnz innit.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

All the songs were good I guess and the production was great but nothing stood out to me on first listen. Light 4

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Really chill, smooth jazzy 70s rock that had great production. Could be good for revising in the future. Solid 4

Suzanne Vega

3/5

It was ok. There were some quite nice songs sprinkled in there but I wasn’t too crazy about most of it. Just some chill acoustic singer songwriter stuff.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Pretty chill tunes but it never captured me. The lyrics really help paint a picture but the music lacks in my opinion. Like the uncool Patti Smith.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Haven’t finished it yet but it’s just proto pet sounds in a good way. Catchy songs you can’t go wrong with

Debut

Björk

4/5

Great album I listened to the other day. Her voice is really distinctive in a great way and the songs are an expansive look into what pop music could be in an avant garde way.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Relaxed 70s rock. Not anything special but just solid songs

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Pretty average 70s psychedelic rock I suppose. Not really my thing but it was pretty cool nonetheless

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

BANGER! Just some absolute country tunes one one of the best live albums of all time.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Chill album with some great production. Nothing mindblowing or particularly horizon-expanding though

American Gothic

David Ackles

5/5

A brilliantly dramatic album where each song tells a story that looks inside the lives of several people across the American plains. Very musical coded in the best way possible. Unexpected 5 stars.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

Great pop tunes

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Actually a great country album that I shall return to.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Really fun great hiphop album that wasn’t too long and had some cool samples sprinkled in

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Odd album. Some songs were less odd than others but none of them stood out that much to me. I commend it for its oddness though

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Really great, powerful double album. Got a killer intro and then some awesome ballads throughout. Will revisit.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Idk I didn’t hate it. It was fun and never that offensive. I probably wont revisit it over other albums similar to it but it’s nice to know that it exists.

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Really great hardcore classic. The songs stayed punchy but it never got too repetitive. Some absolute catchy bangers mixed in here as well.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Pretty calm and atmospheric post rock album. Need to listen to TNT after

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Possibly the best rock opera album ever made. This is a must listen for EVERYBODY and I am proud to say I own this on vinyl.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

Nope. Still don’t get it.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Some groovy ass tunes, dude.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Yeah it was good. Funky and soulful. Clearly quite an influential release by the band and I can hear why.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

This album makes it very hard not to like it. It’s just full of really fun songs back to front. Fairytale in New York is obviously one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time and I personally love the Irish rover. Honestly just a great time that’s safely a 4 and maybe even pushing a 5/5. I guess I’ll have to round up 🤷‍♂️

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Great album from Dylan. That’s all I really have to say.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

I like some hip hop but this album, aside from the three top streamed songs, can get a bit boring at times. It suffers from the classic hip hop curse of being too long and the production is very limited. 3/5. Influential with some good songs but a boring album

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Yeah I liked it. Lo-fi alternative 90s stuff.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Clearly a grower that hasn’t yet grown on me. Some good tunes but nothing that particularly stands out on first listen. I’ll have to revisit.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

I feel like I’d appreciate this album more if I’d listened to Siamese dreams first, but as it stands I need to warm up to the smashing pumpkins sound a bit more to properly appreciate this 2 hour beast. I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and rate it a 4 but I felt as though I didn’t click with it exactly and that’s quite important when the album is as long as it was.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Murmur good

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

I liked it. Not much to say other than that.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

A good rock album. It had some strong guitar and vocals and never got boring. It’s like British grunge but more feminist and also not quite grunge.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

A surprisingly great album with some really good songs in it. Before listening to this I thought Billy Joel made annoying piano pop songs but I actually loved this album.

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Undoubtedly good songs. Not a big fan of the intro, it felt more like an experiment than something worthy of an album song but I guess they thought it created a mood. I couldn’t listen to the whole thing in one go but there isn’t a bad song on it and orbital clearly have talent. Great background stuff and I could imagine clubbing to it too.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Pretty much what you’d expect from a late ‘60s British folk rock proto-prog band. I liked the flute though.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Everyone knows California dreaming. I did not previously know Monday Monday and it’s a good song. The rest of the album was pretty expected. Nice and inoffensive.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Alright album. Not as influential as their later stuff but it has some great tracks. My personal favourite but by no means their best and my opinions definitely may change in the future

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

I mean he is a pretty good songwriter.

Elvis Presley

3/5

Pretty rock and roll

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Had some good, catchy songs on it I suppose

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

4/5

Definitely an album to be experienced once. I wouldn’t say I didn’t like this album. It never bored me too much and even the more ambient songs kept me interested, like I was stepping into some dystopian fascist industrial city. I can see that its value mostly lies in its influence on other bands but, saying that, I still liked some of the tracks on Kollaps. A couple times there were bits that kinda sounded like an actual song! Overall I think it’s something you listen to once but to say it’s bad is to completely disregard it as a mistake. It was all made intentionally and it succeeded in creating a certain mood, which I count as a good album. Now if you don’t mind I have some NIN to listen to and clean my audio-palette

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

My favourite Pet Shop Boys album, closely followed by actually. It’s got such a strong sentimental feeling carried throughout that I love and is bookended by two of the best pet shop boys songs ever recorded. Jealousy is the perfect theatrical ending to an album this good and I wish I could give it a 6.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Idk man it’s got some fun moments. I like how raw it sounds compared to other Foo Fighters records, so that’s a plus. Big me has a fun music video as well so there’s that I guess. I think if I was being critical I’d give it a 3 but I’m biased to the ‘90s.

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

There are like 50,000 different versions of this album. I listened to the 1995 release and it was really good but just too long. I think at some points (the near 20 minute version of my generation) it devolved into guitar wanking but other than that solid stuff!

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Yeah I like it. Got some fun tunes

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

It’s got some good orchestral stuff in it but other than that and a couple songs it’s nothing mind blowing

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Not as many hooks as Doolittle so it’s a harder listen but there are still some solid tracks on it