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Album	You	Global	Diff
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	5	3.09	+1.91
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.21	+1.79
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.41	+1.59
Cloud Nine The Temptations	5	3.41	+1.59
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.43	+1.57
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Morrison Hotel The Doors	1	3.59	-2.59
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	1	2.83	-1.83
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	1	2.72	-1.72
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
Remain In Light Talking Heads	2	3.67	-1.67
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.49	-1.49
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	2	3.42	-1.42
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	2	3.36	-1.36
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	2	3.34	-1.34
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.31	-1.31

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	5
Radiohead	2	5

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Cloud Nine

The Temptations · 1 likes

5/5

great vibes, classic album.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

noodly and directionless, but solid early jazz

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

classic

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

1/5

pretty naff

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

bog standard bruce, its fine I guess

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

one of the best albums

Tical

Method Man

3/5

classic, but a bit discordant

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

aggressive clean old school, not bad

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

I don't know if I would listen to anything apart from paper planes again, but it is pretty groundbreaking and fresh. The political context actually a bit more interesting than the music

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

one great song, some decent songs, some noise. Very 90s

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

yeah, classic, its fine, some bangers.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

total vibe, scratchy americana rock, but not a lot of bangers. Background music for a biker bar

Moby Grape

3/5

Psychadelic 60s, very beetles. All over the place in terms of style similar to white album

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

eh, a bit jangly, on the walrus side of beetles. Not my jam

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

almost every single song is a banger. Amazing

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Falsetto blues, solid, classic, background music - not as good as ROOTS or CURTIS

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Total vibe. Great guitar solos.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

Great album, every song a classic, easy listening

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

2/5

Very medium, completely passable.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

total vibe, can't remember a single song but would listen again.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

Fine I guess. hints of radiohead. not blown away, but very listenable

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

trash. nothing particularly worth listening to

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

meh

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

very muddy indie rock, not that exciting

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

fine I guess nothign special

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

a great album, pity about the rest of their work.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

meh, I don't think I get bob dylan

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

meh

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Solid jazz, lots of great little riffs

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Its a great beatles album, what to say

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

great album, awesome energy

Bert Jansch

4/5

noodly, grafunkly but with a twist. nice

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

noodly, grafunkly but with a twist. nice

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Good album. Some good songs, some great songs.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

dreamy shoegaze. Forgetable. fine.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

meh, just incredibly meh,.

Violent Femmes

5/5

4 great songs, rest is a vibe. Its a good album. Remember crazy reverse cover, gone daddy gone, blister.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

burbly french techno pop synthy background music. Meh.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

very discordant, I am sure musically interesting but not pleasant

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

awful

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

gizzard lizard related? Noodly, kind of goes nowhere, fine I guess

Pretenders

3/5

preppy, upbeat, nice rock. Nothing stands out though, wouldn't think to listen to it again

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

its fine, bordering on not good

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

its radiohead...

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

gets better as the album goes on. Classic

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Trippy, interesting, good vocals. Perhaps deserves some more listens.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

grateful deadish. its fine, nothing stand out. good vibes.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Queen - great electric guitar solos.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Amazing album, although a bit of a cash grab. Hurt, first song whatever it is are the best

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

Amazing album, although a bit of a cash grab. Hurt, first song whatever it is are the best

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

this is the original more cowbell album. Great songs great vibe.

Adele

5/5

amazing

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

Meh, its very 90s but nothing that really sticks

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Early bloc party feels. Its... fine

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Its very good background music, but nothing amazing. Unless I am missing something? Putting it higher just in case

2112

Rush

3/5

It's all right. Classic, not sure I would choose to listen to it out of all the things out there

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Crazy guitar, good sound, very era.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Funky soul vibes

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

Very medium. Rock with off key singing but nothing that sticks.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

classic sound, great album

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Amazing album, one of the greats.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Amazing album, definitely worth listening to again

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Just background music to me. I don't get it.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Classic great etc etc

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

amazing album. no notes

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Vibes, but nothing super memorable

The Stooges

3/5

IF RCHP had no energy. meh. its a vibe but not really grabbing me.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

very discordant, its listenable, and innovative for its time

Miriam Makeba

5/5

classic south african. Can't go wrong

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Amazing jazz album, worth listening too again

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

top radiohead no notes.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

5/5

classic SA again.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Not my jam

Black Sabbath

4/5

classic, listenable, not amazing

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

youtube links didnt' work mostly, what I heard didn't wow me

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

4/5

funky, very eighties vibe. Nothing that really sticks though. Fun.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

classic sound, but nothing that stuck with me

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

great vibes, classic album.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Hard pass - could never get into it.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

brassy sound, crazy clown party. But they really only have the one banger.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

classic grunge rock. groundbreaker, but I think the bands that came after them did it better

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Early brit punk sound. Classic

Metallica

5/5

classic

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

yes pls

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

its fine I guess. Very background music ish. Didn't grab me

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

4/5

funkier than I remembered

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

amazing that this was done during the eighties. Such a different vibe. Only a couple of decent songs though.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

grateful dead esque stuff. I don't think I will ever get it. Its nice but...

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

very of its time. Nice base lines. Nothing super memorable.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

nineties grunge sound, but it sounds like boiled chicken breast and broccoli.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

didn't know this existed, but knew a lot of the songs. great find. Worth listening to again

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Amazing, classic album. Some of those riffs give me shivers

Debut

Björk

4/5

it grew on me over many years, but it is a great album.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

4/5

I didn't think I was going to like it, but I do.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

very chill, background music. Lots of interesting bits and pieces. Del Mar vibes.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

this sounds a lot more like the beatles than I thought it would. its fine...? not amazing.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Amazing album, pity there was never any more

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

really good, didn't think it was my jam, but its good listening. Nothing really stuck though, kind of background-y

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

clunky, nothing sticks. Very medium.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

This is not really good music. Its discordant and rambling and not technically interesting but... for some reason pleasant to listen to.

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

It's amazing how much better they are in studio vs live. Live is just a wall of sound, you lose so much of the feeling of the songs. Great album

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

The guitar is something else, and the rhythms and vibes are much much better than I remember. It's just got so much going on with just a couple of instruments. Amazing.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Its a classic album, but I have always found him a little hard to appreciate

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

it's alright I guess, not really my jam

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

its some grungy dance stuff. I like it, but I don't know if I would be able to spot it in a crowd.