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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Giant Steps The Boo Radleys	5	2.88	+2.12
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.2	+1.8
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.42	+1.58
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.64	+1.36
Tago Mago Can	4	2.79	+1.21
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.5	-2.5
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	1	3.36	-2.36
Trio Dolly Parton	1	3.13	-2.13
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.11	-2.11
The Coral The Coral	1	3	-2
Pelican West Haircut 100	1	2.96	-1.96
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.83	-1.83
Arise Sepultura	1	2.73	-1.73
Surfer Rosa Pixies	2	3.5	-1.5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Tom Waits	2	5

5-Star Albums (8)

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Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

OMG how I hated this album. The music and the message. Totaler scheiß.

1 likes

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Pleasant enough! It is interesting that music about some difficult conditions can sound so happy.

1 likes

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

I have to say that I don't feel qualified to rate this album as I have had minimal exposure to salsa music even having lived in Miami for several years. It has grown from and is an integral part of a culture that I am not part of. That said it was pleasant and is captivating and engaging in its rhythms and tonality. But I can't say it has moved me to explore more music of the genre.

1 likes

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Classic singer-songwriter stuff. One of the best. The 60's wouldn't have been the same without him. Social commentary with wry humor all bundled up in a lose poetic wrapper. Right up my alley.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (11)

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The Coral

1/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Foo Fighters

1/5

Great high school band!

Arise

Sepultura

1/5

OMG. Is everything that bleak? Plus all that noise? Though I have to say I the Orgasmatron cut message hits home.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Just great relaxed listening PLUS Ginger Baker's genius drumming.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

One of the all time best albums. I think I still have the LP. I was 16 when it came out. Album perfectly curated up through 'Ball and Chain' which is one of the top songs in rock history as far as I am concerned. The gentle and melodious, but ominous bass accompanying Janice's pained voice/story interspersed with hard diving psychedelic rock is unmatched. The album losses its direction after Ball and Chain, but it is nice to have those songs for posterity as well.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

I was mostly bored with the studio tracks, but really engaged with the live tracks. They have much more energy and seem to be having a lot more fun in live performances. Hey, but that's what it is really about . . . Right? So my score is about the live tracks. They found that energy for studio recordings later. Certainly by the time they recorded Eliminator.

Black Sabbath

2/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Nice tunes!

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Sounds like a mashup of Monty Python and a chanting monk. If there is a message there I can't see it. Seems like they were trying to make one.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Pleasant enough.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Was prepared to not like this album assuming a cultural divide that I would not be able to breach. Turns out I enjoyed it quite a bit musically.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

I get it, but it doesn't turn me on or get me moving.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I know this was a huge album and a turning point for the Stones, but as a whole it doesn't speak to me. And I never became an avid Stones fan anyway. But thanks for many iconic tunes during their long career.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

Eh!

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

1/5

The Undertones

3/5

Tight adolescent-themed rock band!

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

OMG how I hated this album. The music and the message. Totaler scheiß.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Nice variety with that unique Beck secret ingredient.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I don't know. Not all that it is hyped up to be. Found its adolescent, sex, love, eternity theme boring. And the musical talent was simplistic and rudimentary. The Moby Dick drum solo was impossible to listen to when compared to the true drummer legends of the era like Michael Shrieve.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

5/5

This is a first listen of this album and group for me. I have to say I like it very much on many levels. It's Dylan at one moment, Beatles the next and then psychedelic/acid rock interjections. The messages are also still very timely despite having been cut in 1993. And, hey, I just wanted to sing along with it. Happy but poignant. Dire, but optimistic.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Who could argue anything less than a 5?

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

Dah boom boom dah . . . Dah boom boom dah . . . Dah boom boom dah! That's all I heard. Search the entire album for a track I even semi-liked. Gigantic came the closest and I can honestly say I liked it. The last track (Brick is Red) had me captivated up until when they started singing.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Pleasant enough! It is interesting that music about some difficult conditions can sound so happy.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

Probably not many people's preference, but I really like it. It's the same type of work that Frank Zappa was doing with Yellow Snow in the latter part of his career, another album not to be missed.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

The epitome of punk rock. Who needs speed with albums like this (lol)! Bleak perspective but an appropriate response to the political/social environment of the time (has it changed?).

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

It's Tom Waits. Always a 5 in my book. Can I get a 6? This is an interesting album with Keith Richards joining on a few of the tracks.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

1/5

Eh!

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

First I always like live performance albums more than studio ones. The energy and musical improvisations draw me in. Second it's the Who!

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

Incredible new creativity after a 5 year break. It's all Waits, though interestingly Keith Richards shows up again.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Oh well! They work hard at it and you can't say they don't have a serious/furious theme going on.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Still pretty true to the original music they started with. Simple, honest pop music.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Kind of unstructured beat-pop-poetry-folk. Was different at the time because of that and because it was so personal. Perfect timing for the mid-70's. Also unsatisfyingly short. Eh! 4 for its time and 2 for not surviving past the moment.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

1/5

Sorry! It is insulting, enabling and boring. Maybe worse. Can we ask for a zero?

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

I've gotta give them an A for effort. But . . .

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Never was a fan of the Big Band era. And I never thought Frank's voice was anything but average to mundane. Probably good after sipping several martinis though!

Van Halen

3/5

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

OUCH!!!!!!! Though oddly it does presage by almost 40 years the sounds coming from Washington DC these days!

Future Days

Can

2/5

Pleasant enough but too mundane and too much of it. Monotony Inc.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

I have always been fond of good singer/song writers. He is one of them.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Nice!

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

It was an interesting listen. Quite nice and unexpected.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Okay! Nice tonal qualities and vocals. Maybe relevant for the period. 3.5 scoring at 4.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Exceptional and leaving me wanting more.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

One of my favorite Beatles Albums. They started to evolve pst straight 'pop' music in a new and interesting way for the period.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Some perfect tracks for the period. Memorable! Easy!

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Classic singer-songwriter stuff. One of the best. The 60's wouldn't have been the same without him. Social commentary with wry humor all bundled up in a lose poetic wrapper. Right up my alley.

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

Liked it.