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Album	You	Global	Diff
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	5	2.73	+2.27
Signing Off UB40	5	2.97	+2.03
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.1	+1.9
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	5	3.15	+1.85
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	5	3.24	+1.76
The Undertones The Undertones	5	3.25	+1.75
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.26	+1.74
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	5	3.27	+1.73
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.27	+1.73
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rubber Soul Beatles	2	4.11	-2.11
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.9	-1.9
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.75	-1.75
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	1	2.73	-1.73
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71
21 Adele	2	3.69	-1.69
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	2	3.66	-1.66
The Cars The Cars	2	3.66	-1.66
Chelsea Girl Nico	1	2.63	-1.63
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.54	-1.54

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We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention · 1 likes

1/5

Feels like someone just discovered sound fx, or a racoon got loose in the recording studio.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce · 1 likes

5/5

Love this. It's great Sunday pottering music, has some great drumming too

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg · 1 likes

1/5

Did not listen based on the subject matter.

1-Star Albums (4)

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Smash

The Offspring

4/5

"Gotta Get Away" reminds me of Nirvana with the wailing chorus But it's like a more upbeat Offspringed version and harmonies Loved It'll Be a Long Time - different Offspring Killboy Powerhead is a bit more punky, can imagine playing THPS to it Enjoy what happned to you, it's a bit more ska-punk which I didn't know Offspring could do! A mix of different rock styles Generally 7/10, good punk album. 45 minutes is also an old school album length

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

4 tracks in, epic riffs from Crosstown Traffic followed by epic guitar solos Can hear how this influenced bands much later eg kula shaker Psychedelic dream

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Love how (super)massive every song feels. It's classic Muse, perfectly put together, just as they were in concert. Strings also add extra layer of epic

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

First song is discordant, rambling, screamy Then a rant about religion Then a discordant song with the same rant The only song that is any different from the rest of the album had horrendously annoying Cockney voices speaking and screeching over the top

Le Tigre

3/5

I find the lyrics a bit cringe and the singer's voice annoying. It's fine when singing a melody but when shouting it grates a bit Really repetitive lyrics Although I love the backing music, it give me Hives vs Blondie vibes 60s throwbacks, love the tempo. My my metrocard is a good track Love the variety of music. It feels quite fun and poppy, lots of gimmicks that aren't terrible 3 or 4, can't decide This one never made it to the UK, I can kind of see why

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

This album is long, far too long with little payoff. The pace of the majority of songs can only be described as glacial and they are so similar that when my Spotify cut out part way through I couldn't pick out the song I had just been listening to to restart. The title track is a gem and languishes at the end. Pity really as many may fall asleep before that. The other memorable songs aren't actually that good, they just have a bpm of over 40 so stick out. Also some of the quicker songs had flavours of country music, not for me. I know Fleetwood Mac are revered but as someone new to them, based on this I really don't see why. Maybe I need to hear Rumours. +1 for title track. 2/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Absolute belter of an album that took me straight back to the mid-2000s. The beat is somewhere between disco and rock that lends itself well to shouting along in a room full of partygoers. The lyrics are excellent and many songs refer to common, everyday experiences from the time, such as the anticipation of a night out, drunk texting your crush, or struggling to get a taxi home from the rank. Had so much fun I listened to it twice.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

It was a great album and classic Chilis but was too long

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Good to stick on in the background Quite long. 3.5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

Boring and whiny. A couple of good tracks which saves it from a 1

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Enjoyed the music, it's different and is of my time so there was some nostalgia. All of the songs sound samey and familiar, but none are actually the song you know . It's nice to chill to.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

3. The content of the songs hasn't aged well. To a point where I'm shocked I was allowed to listen to it as a young teenager when it came out. The beats are good and Eminem is obviously very talented at crafting intricate and inventive pieces. Understanding his backstory and the contrast with the MMLP helps but I find it hard with highly rating an album that glorifies such violence against women

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Couple of good songs in the middle, but it was otherwise very samey and dull

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Lots of crooning

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Revolution 9 pulls this album down to a 4, as does the length

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

Decent album. Politics aside, and looking at this only musically, it surprised me as I expected more demure music. The opening couple of tracks were surprisingly upbeat!

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Loved how this is a mix of reggae, punk, and a hint of jazz. Great album that I enjoyed more than I thought I would.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Loved the big band and swing side of this! It's the kind of jazz I prefer

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

I can only guess that this album is on the list to put all the other albums into perspective. There's no other explanation, because this is barely music.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

It was really surprising! The mix of styles, all done really well. The Clash is so much more than the title track. It'll definitely go on the longer rotation

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

It's wonderfully weird. Even if electro synth pop isn't your bag, it's a wild ride and they know how to write a catchy song. Also good to have an artist from Leeds on the list 🙌

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Would be good meditation music. Took the advice of reviews and listened to the Youtube version

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

What a great party! The lyrics made me smile. So much energy. I wonder if my grandparents listened to him, I could picture them at a dance jiving away

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

2/5

Started off badly, the first song is discordant and a lot of noise. After 3-4 songs it got better, for a while, then dipped again. I'd describe it as erratic. The mix of sound is epic but I prefer songs with more structure. It felt like a ramble rather than coherent songs. Ambulance is a bit dull again because of the rambly, unstructured nature of it. I can deal with the acapella but it was repetitive. Staring at the Sun is the only song with real development, although it was still droney Was prepared to give it a 3 since it's just not my jam, but then You Could Be Loved split my eardrums. The song is a powerful idea but the vocal is awful. Are people impersonating sheep at the end?

The Clash

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

2/5

Not my jam

Paul Simon

2/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Good for a dinner party

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Unstructured, random noises for so much of it. I'm not a jazz person and the jazzy stuff is actually the better part of this record. I don't want 18 minute songs.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Different but quute repetitive. Not in a rush to hear it again.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Great album, great band. Had heard of them but never heard them. Will be coming back to this one for sure.

Violent Femmes

5/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

All very samey. Lovely voice and bass though. I was intrigued by the chords and did some looking into it, then went round for one more go.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

Background music, felt like a film soundtrack

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

This is peak Chilis. Mellow yet funky, outrageous bass from start to finish, some absolute bangers on here. It has a bit of filler which would take it down to a 4.5 but it's balanced out by just how good some of the other songs are.

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Lots of great sound here and love the energy, but it's let down by its weird pretentiousness at times. Don't need to have several minutes of noise and feedback at the end of a song, this was true of many tracks. My friend Goo is just really cringe.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Great, snappy songs. Will be revisiting.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

The more upbeat, swingy bits made up for the wailing crooning.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Lovely voice, this was just a bit too samey and dull. The comparatively more upbeat songs pulled it to a 3. It has a time and place but I'm not going to revisit.

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Never seen a more appropriate album cover. This was just bland nothingness.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Some of the songs were incredible (Chapel Hill, Purr) Others had painful whining/wailing voice or really basic lyrical structure that were so borderline cheesy they reminded me of primary school poems. A way better album than Goo, but Sonic Youth just seem to have a mixed bag of tastes/sounds and only half of them are good.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Run to the Hills might be one of the best songs ever.

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

Liked the reggae-inspired bits but it fizzled out into bland meh. Don't enjoy songs where the lyrics consist of saying the same line over and over

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

Feels like someone just discovered sound fx, or a racoon got loose in the recording studio.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

As Radiohead albums go, this was a better one for me. But Thom Yorke's whiney voice just isn't for me.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Accidentally lost my place on the album and couldn't work out which song was playing. They are all the same

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

I'm kinda here for this! Bit of a surprise but it's so different! Great background music

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Blur

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Loved the music and the harmonies, did not love the attitude toward women.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

5/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Decent background music

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

What is this. A couple of tolerable songs, but a whole lot of dross to go along with it

Moby Grape

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Positives: beautiful voice, lovely harmonies, important subject matter. Negatives: repetitive, vibe is too relaxed for the subject matter, couldn't really tell the songs apart.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Van Halen

5/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Love how gloriously camp this is. And a quirky time signature!

1977

Ash

3/5

More hits on this than I realisef

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

If I never hear that harmonica again it'll be too soon.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

So THIS is why everyone hates on Britpop

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Like a wannabe Daft Punk

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Loved that the sound is so of the 2000s and it took me back to fond memories of my formative teenage & uni years. Nostalgia aside, there was one single I'd forgotten (Revelry) but the rest was a bit bland. I've never liked Sex on Fire. 17 is gross and creepy.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Well that was confused

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

The best Radiohead album I've heard yet. They are best when Thom Yorke sounds less wailing cat. Still not in a rush to hear it again, though.

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

You can't deny Daft Punk are titans of house music. This normally wouldn't be my thing and I groaned when I saw the play time of 1h 15, but my toes were tapping the whole way through!

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Heard this in every shopping centre in the 90s

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

5/5

Love this. It's great Sunday pottering music, has some great drumming too

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

2/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

Great for a chilled summer day

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Great trip hop album

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Quite liked it, clearly from the pre-autotune era

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

It's fine. Some great songs on here but there is a lot of bloat. I got annoyed with the transitions

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Terrific 17 minutes of psychadelic rock to finish

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Love the backing music, I can hear so many other bands who hadn't yet formed in there. However what really lets it down is the vocal, I can't stand shouting into the mic with no melody, it just ruins it for me and sounds tone deaf. Can do with less experimental stuff too but that's just personal preference

1999

Prince

4/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

The Undertones

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I previously complained about the amount of Radiohead on this list. Album 5/6 and I can see why this one is here.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

I can appreciate this for what it is, but am fine only listening to it the once

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Great instrumental album that would be great while doing chores

Pretenders

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

Dull

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Great music but the screaming got old

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

When I saw this pop up I groaned; the last TV On The Radio album I had was dreadful. This is so much better.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Why are all the songs so long. Not quite classic Bowie for me

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Enjoyed how the songs were structured, excellent buildup every time. But it was just dull otherwise

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

So much woodwind abuse

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Separating the art from the artist, great album.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

Did not listen based on the subject matter.

Suede

4/5

Having had the absolute treat of seeing Suede live, I can never give an impartial review of this. Full of bangers and you can feel the energy

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Solid 80s bangers

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Feels blasphemous to say this all sounds like the same song. The only exceptions are the songs with guitars in the background. Everything else was kind of filler

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Those harmonies. That energy. Pure boss

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

3.5, rounded up to 4. It's fine and I probably wouldn't seek it out again, but extra mark added for how different it is. A more tolerable Radiohead.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

There was never any way I could be unbiased in a review of this. But listening to it with a purpose, as I did today, I found it even more brilliant.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

One to come back to for sure

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

The Beatles have a lot of great records, but I don't think this is as epic as some of them.

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Some bangers on here, some dull songs too. 3 seems fair

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

In the great Bob Dylan debate, I sit firmly on the side of "this guy can't sing". However, this is actually better than a lot of his other stuff

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

So many memories brought back from this!

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Loses points for Nico's tone deaf drawling, which ruined some otherwise good music

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Technique

New Order

4/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

5/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

5/5

Separating the art from the artist, as the guy really was a piece of work, this was really good. Not the kind of music I normally listen to, but you can't deny the energy going on on this record.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Brilliant for background concentration music

Either Or

Elliott Smith