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Album	You	Global	Diff
Basket of Light Pentangle	5	2.76	+2.24
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
Blunderbuss Jack White	5	3.4	+1.6
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.42	+1.58
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	4	2.56	+1.44
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	5	3.64	+1.36
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.68	+1.32

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33
Pornography The Cure	1	3.31	-2.31
The Boatman's Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.2	-2.2
Screamadelica Primal Scream	1	3.17	-2.17
Technique New Order	1	3.17	-2.17
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	1	3.13	-2.13
Infected The The	1	2.92	-1.92
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.82	-1.82
Atomizer Big Black	1	2.72	-1.72
90 808 State	1	2.69	-1.69

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	5
Metallica	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Public Image Ltd.	2	1

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Pink Floyd	5, 2, 5, 4

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Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1 likes

3/5

Threw this album on, listened to the first two tracks then the rest just kind of blurred into the background. I guess that's the problem with reggae, even a really great album just sounds meh. A very generous 3 stars here

Guero

Beck · 1 likes

4/5

Good album, a good amount of recognizable and catchy songs, but with all Beck there's just something missing. Maybe it's overproduced, maybe it's the lack of passion, it's just too steady eddy. Nothing really moving enough to make me want to keep it in the regular rotation.

Timeless

Goldie · 1 likes

1/5

Timeless? More like too much time, am I right? At an 1:53 this is about 1:45 more drum and bass than anyone could ever really need. I see 14 songs listed in the track listing, I have to believe it cause it just sounded like an endless drone. Every song sounds the same, boring as shit.

1-Star Albums (15)

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Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Funky, brief, good Not great. Would relisten

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Liked the first song, kinda fizzled out after

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Couple good tracks, a little sloppy eh

Basket of Light

Pentangle

5/5

Def an album I would’ve never listened to otherwise

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Kinda boring, not much variety

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Some catchy tunes, not super memorable

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

3 bangers on the track then pidder ditters into borderline boring emo gobbledeegoops

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Meh

Third

Portishead

3/5

Good but like not great

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

Not right now, maybe never

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Meh

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Heard one, heard em all

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Album was a vibe, a sexy one

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

80s melancholy with a dash of electro. Not a single hook on the whole album but somehow still pleasant

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

Can’t get past the ridiculous screeching vocals.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Billy Corgan can’t sing… plus I hear he’s a free market libertarian

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

An album I’d never heard of but enjoyed

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Yea ok interesting find, but still a little boring at times.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

Great album start to finish

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

A few classic bangers and the whole album was very listenable

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

Bookoooooooooooring

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Pretty good

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

Seemed like ambient music. Not very interesting ambient music

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

1/5

What a trash album. Every song was boring and went on for like 6 minutes.

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Def a couple bangers on here with you shook me and back in black, but overall just sounds generic. Dude can shred a guitar but missed the part about how to write moving songs, drum and bass add next to nothing, vocals are at least unique if completely lacking any range

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

1/5

What a depressing slog. I’ll never listen to a single song from that album ever again

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

“arguably one of the most influential rock albums ever recorded”

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

I really wanted to hate this album, but I listened a couple of time and didn’t? Can’t say I liked it tho

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

An album full of memorable tracks, easy listening, delightful melodies and harmonies, with great composition. The differences in songwriting between John, Paul, Ringo, and Harrison are on full display. The Beatles are in a class of their own, this isn’t the best Beatles album but still an easy 5/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

It was ok, nothing special, not terrible.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Good ol euro pop. Easy listening, not much was memorable

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Yea good eh

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

Our second pure jazz album, first was Mingus. At least Mingus stirred some emotion, this didn’t really do anything.

Infected

The The

1/5

Utterly unremarkable. Listened to it twice and both times it didn’t catch my attention once. No context cred either Cody.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

5/5 no context needed, easy album to listen too several memorable tunes

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

1 of a million generic sounding British gobbledygook

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Great album, only downside is it’s hard to find. Had to go to YouTube to listen. Apparently there’s a licensing beef

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Clearly didn't hate it as much as everyone else...

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Hotel california carries this album, life in the fast lane and New kid in town are classics, but then the last 6 tracks are all disposable.

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Orange Crush baby

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Hey I liked it. Better than a kick in the nuts

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Passable

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Good mid classic rock

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Pretty good

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

La grange surrounded by a bunch of boring mid tier songs

The Band

4/5

Up on cripple creek and Dixie are classics, suck it Kris

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

It's simple, either you recognize the greatness in this album, or you're retarded. A friend called Joni Mitchell a budget Sarah McLaughlan. He's retarded. 50 years later we're still listing to this album for a reason. Sarah McLaughlan, on the other hand, can't be forgotten quick enough.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Hot for teacher might be the best 80s song. Jump might be the worst. Yin and yang bitches

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Too bad some people will instantly disregard cause the artist or the genre. Long before he was whack job he was a seriously talented artist. First half of this album is a 5 then is trails off near the end. Will revisit for shre

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Certainly not unpleasant, just a bit stuck in time

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Cavalcade of hits

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

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

Devo

1/5

fuck Devo and fuck everything they stand for.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

The Doors

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Yap yap yap blah blah blah

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Well I woke up this morning and grabbed myself a beeer

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

I mean, wtf. This is the kind of album that makes people hate jam bands. No structure, no melodies, no progression in the songs, they just seem to meander forever with no resolution.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

Wow, typically hate everything 80’s related but this wasn’t bad. Enjoyed it

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Delightful South African jazz

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Talented multi instrumentalist and good songwriter, some interesting melodic songs, but the vocals are poor

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Love it

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

🍆 = no

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Yea def fell into a whole groove thing there. Liked it much more than I was thinking I would

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Bit torn on this. It’s clearly a well written beautiful sounding album, but definitely requires active listening or it just fades into the background. Could be a 4 but because it didn’t grab my attention it’s getting a 3

Metallica

4/5

Good, not as epic as my childhood self remembers tho

Iron Maiden

3/5

Not that it was bad, just nothing caught my attention. It definitely sounds of an era

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

Really wanted to like this, but it was like nails on a chalkboard. A 23 minute opening song that takes forever to built then goes nowhere, another track that’s literally just called feedback is a 7 minute slog of guitar feedback. None of the musicians seemed very good or like they were even listening to each other. Painful

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

It’s good, this genre just suffers cause at that pace all the songs just end up sounding the same, glad I heard it but if I want thrash I’m turning to Rust in peace by Megadeath

War

3/5

Paul Simon

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

I don’t know, I get there’s something there, but having a hard time finding it in just one day. this album really feels like something I’ve heard before but I can’t place where. Will file this one away and relisten on a dud album day

Goo

Sonic Youth

2/5

Infinitely better than the other Sonic Youth album we've already had, E.V.O.L., but that really doesn't say much. Pretty unremarkable and had to skip through a couple songs as they were unlistenable.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Violent Femmes

3/5

Some interesting stuff, but trying too hard to be edgy

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Interesting enough, might revisit a song or two from this album, but largely indistinguishable from other records of the era.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

Not sure what’s important or memorable about it to deserve inclusion on the list

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

About 30 mins, 15 of it is just “avant garde noise rock.” I imagine this album is a big deal because it’s “different” but as a stand alone piece of art it kinda sucks

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Nice getting these actual great albums sprinkled into this list. Been quite a week of 1-2 star albums

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Pretty approachable for a jazz album

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

The weird to focused ratio too far off

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Not terrible but also fairly unremarkable

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Sexy cool

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

Unfortunately these “you had to be there” albums don’t translate very well if you weren’t there. I’m sure they were making a statement that was “avant-garde” at the time, but it’s a poor musical effort bordering on unlistenable

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Sexy

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

1 star for the fight club song, 2 for boobies

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Expecting the worst when I saw “Bristish grime rap” but it was ok. The skits were dumb as shit fam

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Great album, will revisit

The xx

2/5

Is it just me or does every song sound the same? Lazy singing, lazy guitar work, the rhythm section actually seems to want to go somewhere but can’t. Very yawn inducing

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

A whole bunch of meh 80s music

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Yea I mean pretty good, not sure there was much memorable on here. The skits were nice and jazzy, the rest was just a bit too goofy.

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

Can we just be honest when there's a bad album. This is objectively bad music. It might've been making a statement 40 years, but who cares when the music is so bad. No thanks

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Starting to think Bowie might be overrated. Fame is a banger, young Americans is pretty good, most the other songs are mid to boring, then the across the universe cover is pure trash

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Just unremarkable

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

I know half dozen kinks songs, none of them on this album. Seemed a little goofy maybe, or like a budget Beatles. Pretty mid

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

So this is bjork apparently. Didn't really realize until I was almost through the album, so had to do a relisten. Not that I like Bjork or know anything about her other than she was a diva at some point. Track 1 starting with 20 seconds of silence, like why? So I crank the volume trying to hear something then it blasts me away once it finally starts? Definitely diva behavior Bjork, I don't appreciate that.

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

First listen through I though the album was pleasant, but found myself wanting to return to it a few days later when there was a dull album. A solid 4

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Bloody well right and Dreamers are bangers. The rest is very forgettable innit it

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Boring queen

Moby Grape

3/5

It was pleasant. A good listen, nice quick little catchy tunes, but like nothing to revolutionize your life.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

2/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Meh

Django Django

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Was it bad? Not really? Will I ever listen to them again… not really

Joanna Newsom

2/5

Meh

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

It was a good listen, great storyteller

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

If someone says they’re a Beatles fan then lists this as their favorite album… well… they’re more of a Beatles tourist than an a fan. Interesting concept, some interesting songs, but not heir best work. Still a less than great Beatles album is always a 5 in my books

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Kinda meh

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Wasn't thinking very much of this until I read one of the reviews saying it's a headphone listen. It is. So many more layers and complexity to it. Still, a bit too much of the self-indulgent crap that prog rock is always guilty of, ie) two minute long meandering intros to 10 min long songs. TIghten it up King Crimson!

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

I enjoy the occasional metal like megadeath or Metallica, but this just kinda sucks. Guitar seems a bit amateurish, drum is just double bass to death, and every song just sounds the same. Could not listen through full album.

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

S&M

Metallica

5/5

Writing this review after only 7 songs but whatever, it's a banger, happy to give this a 5. Love that they took their classic songs, added full orchestration, then performed it live. At 2 hours a bit long in the tooth for a one day listen but that's my only complaint

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Some quirky songs

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Some good tracks eh

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

I listened to this full album, just so I could post a sincere 1 rating. This type of music enrages me as it inevitably leads to wankers declaring it a masterpiece, avant-garde, a piece of art, etc. You need to really listen to it a few times to appreciate the musicianship, they say. No you don't, I say. This is crappy music. This is complicated for the sake of being complicated, it strips all the fun out of music leaving a barely functional purely technical pile of slop. "Oh wow polyrhythms and polytonality, these musicians are so great" no they aren't, fuck off, it sounds like shit and just because you heard someone call this experimental and you want to attach yourself to it because you think it makes you seem complex is bullshit.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Beautiful voice, greats hooks in Turn me on and Come away with me. Would relisten.

The Specials

3/5

1979 England isn’t usually what I think of with ska so interesting in that sense

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

808 State

1/5

Techno slop

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Boring, trying too hard to be prog that it fails as classic rock, not quite good enough to be prog rock, just a bit of a slog of noodling nonsense.

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Repetitive droning

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

2/5

I mean it’s about as good as budget bob marley reggae can get

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Technique

New Order

1/5

Disposable trash.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Eagles

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

It certainly is jazz…

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Listened through the whole thing, it was a good time capsule of 90s Brit alterna pop

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Couple bangers eh

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Somehow, every song sounds the same.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Something interesting

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Something different, that's fer sure. Couple interesting tracks I'll revisit

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

An artist I never heard of, clearly a guitarist as his voice is not great. Couple interesting tracks but won't revisit.

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

A for effort with the 5/4 time track, but I'm not a fan of albums that put noise on them just for the sake of it.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Depressing af

The Score

Fugees

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Beats a kick in the face, kinda

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Yea it's a 4

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Grace slings vocals are a 5, the rest of the album, while interesting enough, just a 3, 4 overall

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

nope, must've been a "you had to be there" album

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Moderate rap fan, but if I had to take one rap album with me to a deserted island, this would probably be it, close call with vintage Kanye

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

I get the hate, if you're not into it you won't be convinced until the time is right, if ever. Enough tracks on here for a 5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Great album, eminem's skill is undeniable but the lyrics are just a bit too cringe. He really leaned into the offsensive for the sake of being offensive and it takes the shine off what's otherwise a 5/5 album.