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Album	You	Global	Diff
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Sex Packets Digital Underground	4	2.67	+1.33
90 808 State	4	2.69	+1.31
Movies Holger Czukay	4	2.71	+1.29
Out of Step Minor Threat	4	2.93	+1.07
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	4	2.97	+1.03
Heavy Weather Weather Report	4	2.98	+1.02
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	1	3.66	-2.66
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.38	-2.38
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	1	3.18	-2.18
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Truth And Soul Fishbone	1	2.96	-1.96
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	1	2.95	-1.95
Back to Basics Christina Aguilera	1	2.75	-1.75
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	1	2.72	-1.72

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Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park · 2 likes

1/5

"I'm 14 and angry but my mum won't let me listen to proper metal"

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers · 1 likes

1/5

The black pioneers of blues have a lot to be angry about

1984

Van Halen · 1 likes

3/5

"listen, i know you paid a lot for those keyboards but have you ever thought they sound a bit, you know, shit?" "nah, keyboards are the future mate" "its just the drums and guitars all sound really good but the keyboards kind of ruin th.." "the future mate"

Adele · 1 likes

2/5

Beige

1-Star Albums (11)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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The Only Ones

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

"I'm 14 and angry but my mum won't let me listen to proper metal"

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Steely Dan are a great band but I always feel like I'm listening to a overdone pastiche of another great band I really want to listen to

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

A band trying to find something new but still not quite there yet but its still good because its radiohead

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Fun. Seems quite dated now

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Sounds really cliché and slow now, hard to imagine what it would be like listening to it originally but must have made an impact

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

i dont do the drugs that might make me enjoy this album

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

i would have liked to have been at that show

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

this is good 60s stuff, had to skip the pissing about with synthesizers though

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

nice but a bit dull

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

disco basslines are the best basslines

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

1/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

sounds like mariah carey sacked her backing band and her songwriting team and got a bloke who mashes a keyboard with one hand and hits things with the other whilst she makes up words on the spot and warbles. dont get me wrong, its still better than mariah carey, its just not very good

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

interesting. felt a bit like i'd rather be listening to nick cave. 2nd disc was boring.

Throwing Muses

3/5

pretty good

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

good band

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Great music but the whole concept and the weird over the top fretless bass would be frowned at and ridiculed if released today

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

pretty dull

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

still sounds fresh

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

pretty cliched and his vocals-AH are really annoying-AH but things that become cliche were usually good till everyone got fed up of them. some great music and technique but mostly sounds really thin and overproduced. felt quite jarring when 'one' popped up, which stands head and shoulders above the other tracks

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

classic

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

not really my thing but good stuff

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

good stuff

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

ive always known i should listen to charles mingus and now i have im glad of it but by the end of that i felt a little on edge

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

1/5

no thank you

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

the pre-packed, oven-ready, homogenised, airbrushed, bland version of rock and roll for which the 80's must answer for

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

That was ok

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

little vignettes of peculiarly british, often mundane and always disturbing experiences wrapped in twee bouncy music which somehow makes the whole thing comforting.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

The black pioneers of blues have a lot to be angry about

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

life in middle america sounds very dull

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

interesting jolly poppy stuff

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

shoe gaze if you want to but its really dull

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

He's good, but he's not as good as he thinks he is

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

this was weird and enjoyable

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Dreamy, pleasant and catchy

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

im sure they were all having a lovely time

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

1/5

There's a buffet restaurant near me where you can eat food from every country at the same time. People sit at a table eating poorly cooked curry in a rubbery Yorkshire pudding with a side of dry spaghetti bolognese. Its an abomination

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Nice

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

That's a lot of hammond. now i know where the music for all those scenes in films where they're doing something slightly surreptitious came from

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

quite dull

Tracy Chapman

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

I like classic hip-hop, I don't like this. I can't says its bad but it feels like one of those modern remakes of a classic car where it does the things its meant to do much better but without any of the charm.

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

im glad we're in a post post punk world

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

pretty non de script but fine

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

cant go wrong

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

You're a teenager in the 90s and like all teenagers you need loud music to annoy your parents. They've had rock and metal and punk so it really needs to be really nasty, electronic and disturbing

Odelay

Beck

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

shit

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

dull but inoffensive.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

still good

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

was straight shooter the inspiration for the countdown timer music?

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

really slow and dull and the call response thing is annoying

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

good shit

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

good

Play

Moby

2/5

boring

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

not what i expected, but good

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

1/5

this was not as bad as beyonce

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

high quality dad rock

Dire Straits

4/5

Sultans of swing

Blur

3/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

That was bollocks

Adele

2/5

Beige

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

background jazz music

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

they sound like they are enjoying themselves

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

This album unsurprisingly comes across as a mediocre facsimile of The Smiths, who despite Morrissey being a knob are a great band. The Smiths made such an impact that I now don't need to listen to Morrissey to get more Smiths because there are bands who are good facsimiles of them, like Another Sunny Day and particularly, Northern Portrait, a Scandinavian band who sing Smiths songs about Volvos.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

lovely old bob

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

that was weird, but good

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

while black hole sun is great, queens of the stone age autoplayed after this and it was a lot better

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

its good. it doesnt seem like he was a very nice fella though

The Joshua Tree

2/5

you know those airbrushed paintings you get on the side of fairground rides? Like a slightly off picture of tom cruise doing a stunt or a gurning generic superhero? this is to music as those are to art.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

the squeaky noise all the way through this is a drum called a Cuíca which is played by rubbing a wet cloth against a rosined stick which is against the very taught skin of the drum.

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

beige

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

its ok. doesnt sound very punky now and its pretty bland compared to the contemporary dexys album i got played earlier. feels like a historic artifact rather than anything i want to listen to

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Faith

George Michael

2/5

80s pop was pretty bad

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

couple of bangers but the rest is a bit meh

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

sometimes you want to listen to angry music

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

an adequate guitar band

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

This is incoherent

Traffic

3/5

that was good and interesting

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

1/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

feels like an "influenced loads of people" band . probably better live

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

little richard is here, and he makes me feel uncomfortable

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

The Cars

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

if the recommended songs that came on after an album are 40+ years newer and sound the same that tells you a lot

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

its not very good

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

always felt I'd like pj harvey but when listening always got something weird which switched me off. this album does it for me though

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

I do not know how Cyndi Lauper came to occur but I feel this is indicative of larger problems in society and not her fault personally.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

1's from people who did drugs and listened to boring psychedelic stuff in the 70s, 5's from people who did drugs and listened to boring techno in the 90s

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

that was better than expected based on the one song of theirs ive ever heard

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

sounds like him going through some sort of therapeutic process. i do pity the hundreds of thousands of people who bought it expecting something else though

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Smash