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Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Metal Venom	5	2.47	+2.53
Justified Justin Timberlake	5	2.67	+2.33
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	5	2.73	+2.27
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	5	2.77	+2.23
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	5	2.84	+2.16
Stripped Christina Aguilera	5	2.87	+2.13
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.94	+2.06
Gasoline Alley Rod Stewart	5	2.95	+2.05
Fire Of Love The Gun Club	5	2.99	+2.01
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	5	3	+2

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blue Joni Mitchell	1	3.5	-2.5
Scott 2 Scott Walker	1	2.63	-1.63
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
...And Justice For All Metallica	2	3.42	-1.42
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	2	3.36	-1.36
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.29	-1.29
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	2	3.2	-1.2
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	2	3.18	-1.18
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	2	3.06	-1.06

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	4	5
Beatles	5	4.6
U2	3	5
Pink Floyd	3	5
Radiohead	3	4.67
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Talking Heads	3	4.67
Beastie Boys	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
The Rolling Stones	2	5
Stevie Wonder	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
Van Morrison	2	5
Arcade Fire	2	5
Bob Dylan	4	4.25

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Artist	Ratings
Joni Mitchell	4, 1

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Popular Reviews

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake · 1 likes

5/5

Love this album. I knew One of These Things First well, but never listened to the rest of the album.

1-Star Albums (5)

All Ratings

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

A favourite album since I was a kid.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Great rock sound, a bit of funk. Wars of Armageddon is a little more experimental; by the time the fart sounds came in, I wasn't even surprised.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

California Dreaming is one of the best songs ever created. It is definitely the best song on this album.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

Guero

Beck

5/5

An incredible albmum.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

I am not a fan of JM, but I recognize why she is popular and helped shape and define an era in music and culture. I also recognize the quality and importance of this album, hence my high rating. I never go out of my way to listen to Joni; I often don't like her voice and don't love all of her lyrics, BUT recognize that's a me thing. I will say, I added Raised on Robbery to my Classic Rock playlist. And I will say, I did not dislike listening to this album, and wouldn't even be upset if I had to listen to it again.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Good album, great band, however I tend to find many of REM's songs to be a bit more background music; I don't often really focus on them other than a few of them.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

I've never enjoyed Iron Maiden. And I feel like all of their songs sound like the same song, but I recognize that is just because I'm not a fan and don't listen extensively to the genre. I also recognize their contribution to rock.

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Black Metal

Venom

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

I've never been a big fan of Black Sabbath, but this album is fire.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

I'm not into it. At all.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

5/5

Never heard of them. Very much enjoyed this album.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

This album is so peculiar. Sound-wise, it's awesome. Each song has amazing arrangements, and interesting melodies and harmonies. But the lyrics are often odd, and Hotel's lyrics are questionable at best. Hotel needs some new lyrics, but is otherwise a great song.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

5/5

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

5/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

5/5

This album is truly one of the best ever made. The first 4 tracks proove this, but literally every song is excellent and unique.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

The Only Ones

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

A little too experimental for me.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Boston

5/5

War

5/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

Not generally my kind of music: I generally don't love doin'-it-music. But, he has a great voice, and it's an objectively good album for the music genre.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

I don't mind the odd song by Dinosaur Jr. in a playlist, but after listening to two albums, I can't really tell each song apart.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

5/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Love this album. I knew One of These Things First well, but never listened to the rest of the album.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

I've hear name before, never heard their music. I can see why they were popular.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

I like Dion's older stuff, and I love the Spector Wall of Sound production on the songs that have it. But I just had a really hard time getting through this album. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for it, but I found it meh.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

5/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

1/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

5/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

White Ladder

David Gray

5/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

The Slider

T. Rex

5/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

5/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Iron Maiden

5/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

I love Fiona. Even when I don't love certain songs of hers, I will always listen; she's very striking in her lyrics and accompanying music. This album started off a little too musically experimental for me, though, as usual, her lyrics are interesting and kept me listening. I enjoyed the last two thirds of the album a lot more. Apparently, the percussion on this album is largely improvised; sometimes this seems obvious, and other times less so. This album is definitely one that many should listen to, if they are Fiona fans.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

The Clash

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Bad Company

5/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Ramones

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

5/5

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Nixon

Lambchop

4/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Scissor Sisters

5/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

5/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

5/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

1999

Prince

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

4/5

It's as bouncy as the album name suggests. Full of Honky Tonk, a hint of Cajun. An enjoyable listen.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

I find this one difficult for me to rate. On the one hand, I can see the clear lasting impression they made in music, be it dance music, experimental, or motion picture soundtrack. This album feels like it should be backing a suspense/thriller/horror film. However, on the other hand, as an album in and of it's own, I had a very hard time listening to it. I found it too long, too boring, and too repetitive. My rating reflects my own enjoyment of the album for the most part, bumped a little for their impact on soundscapes and music. That being said, I am also not typically an electronic music lover. So, my rating is flawed.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Common

4/5

Music

Madonna

4/5

Although I was born in the early 80s and have living memory of most of Madonna's career, I have only ever owned two of her albums: Ray of Light, and Music. Ray of Light was a big shift in her style, and Music seemed like the logical next step: a refocus on pure pop. It also feels like a shift from leading the charge in the next pop music direction to hearing a sound that will be popular and mimicking it just before or just after it becomes the main sound. That being said, she was still good at her job, and this album had at least two hits and a couple of others that reached radio play. Every song on the album is different. While not every song is hit worthy, most are enjoyable. When this album came up in my list, I was a little surprised. I'm not 100% sold on it needing to be on this list, however, after giving it a fresh listen, I am reminded that it is an overall decent pop album with some real bangers. Points deducted for American Pie, obviously.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5