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Album	You	Global	Diff
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	5	3	+2
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.05	+1.95
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	5	3.11	+1.89
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	5	3.21	+1.79
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.38	+1.62
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	5	3.46	+1.54
Suicide Suicide	4	2.46	+1.54

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.74	-2.74
So Peter Gabriel	1	3.55	-2.55
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	1	3.5	-2.5
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	1	3.36	-2.36
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	1	3.29	-2.29
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.28	-2.28
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.22	-2.22
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	1	3.09	-2.09

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5-Star Albums (17)

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System Of A Down

3/5

There‘s a sign at my wall that reads: Nu metal 🚫 New metal 🚫 No metal ✅ For this album I‘m going to make an exception because it really is something special - but just this one time ☝️

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1-Star Albums (14)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Mismatch of emphasis and talent imo. I also couldn’t get over the feeling that they butchered my favorite song from the Three Penny Opera

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

What a masterpiece! Incredibly versatile and deep

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

1/5

Ramones

5/5

Hey-ho I went and I koved it

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

The Clash

5/5

You think London Calling is the best Clash album. I’m sure it’s this on. We are not the same

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

1/5

I needed to listen to the White Stripes for the better part of my Saturday after listening to this in order to get this HonkyTonk Bullshit out of my system. Why anyone would think you must listen to this album is beyond me. I‘d rather die than listen to it again

Cut

The Slits

4/5

One of the very few classic Post-Punk records I never really warmed to. I know it’s good bit it never blew my mind.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

1/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

I was surprised at how relevant Fear of a Black Planet still is today. The impact of this record on music history can't be measured in stars. I should actually give it 5 stars. For listening pleasure alone, though, I'd give it 3 stars, as the old-school style was often too edgy for me.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

THE consensus album of the late last millennium. no matter which scene or music genre you identified with - this album everybody seemed to like. I hadn’t listened to it in more than 25 years and was grateful for the nostalgia. Not sure how good this is objectively but I spun it four times yesterday and enjoyed it more on each return

The Bends

Radiohead

2/5

I just realized I don’t like this album. Radiohead are among my favorite artists but here their sound oscillates between a self-loathing Nirvana clone and 90s balladry interspersed with post-rock elements. I forgot that I only liked Radiohead after they found their unique sound with Kid A

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Weakest BB album imo

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

Since I have a soft spot for Brazilian Bossa Nova I had a good time with this album

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

I fell asleep while We Hate You was playing in a loop. My neighbor later asked me if everything was ok - so let’s say this album stimulates communication

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Clearly, DDDDC > HtH. Why isn’t the former on the list, I wonder?. Still a very enjoyable experience to revisit this classic

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Since they stole my fucking Creedence I have to settle for this

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

The best thing I can say about this album is that it gave me ample opportunity for silly jokes because it’s just bad (even though it’s Thriller). I remember not liking this album when I was a kid and everybody’s dads and their mums where celebrating this. This was long before Michael was red-flagged the world’s most notorious predator, of course

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

I‘d rather listen to all Throbbing Gristle albums simultaneously for 30 hours than to one more song of this terrible plastic karaoke masquerading as new wave, reggae or whatever

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

For me, this album is a flawless masterpiece. If I would have to think of an album that best represents the emotion of love it would be this one ❤️ it’s soothing, charming, heartwarming, and stimulating at the same time

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Uptempo songs: yay👍 - ballads: nay 👎 I don’t need to listen to this again but I can respect the musicianship that went into writing and performing these songs

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

5/5

One of my all time favorites 😍

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

Sounds like the kknd of band that was invited to the Saturday night entertainment shows that ran on TV when I was a kid. Neat, tidy and doesn’t hurt anyone - and I hate that in music

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Stephen Stills

3/5

System Of A Down

3/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Solid album that doesn’t much for me. Pretty meh

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

If I had been fucked by this album my summary would be something like “It wasn’t bad … just the kind of casual experience that fades from memory almost as soon as it’s over. All that I remember now is that he looked a bit like Robert Redford as Jeremiah Johnson.”

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

I‘m not saying this lightly: *clears throat good kid, m.A.A.d city sittin’ top of the throne, That Compton storytelling still sends shivers down my bones. While To Pimp a Butterfly is complex, preachin’ deep, Evry other skit feels like homework soon to put me to sleep *mic drop

Suicide

4/5

Adele

3/5

Lots of talent, obviously, but I didn’t really vibe with the songs

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

2/5

The album goes on quite a lot, Clearly, Each ballad in tears was wrought, With the same mournful tone, One long, droning moan… By track ten, you wish you were not.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Top 10 of my favorite Jazz albums of all times easily

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Somewhat delighted and a little confused, I give this album a four-star credit because I think its sweet weirdness will grow on me over time even though it hasn’t clicked yet

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

„Too many MCs“ - word!

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

4/5

That’s the kind of discovery I signed up for. I had no clue what to expect and I liked this a lot

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

I can say without a doubt that this is the best country album I listened to in its entirety. 2 ⭐️…. It is almost bearable

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

The Specials

4/5

One of those albums that should be a fixture on topsters, yet somehow flies under the radar these days

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

Listen to this album and complete the following sentence: This album is an essential contribution to this list because _______________. ….. See! You can’t!

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

* beats rhythm on the car roof with hand and drags on stub of joint, smiling all over

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

I was thinking about giving this one 5 stars for so long that I just went ahead with it only to get on with my life. Probably worthy of it, though

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

I‘ve been in love with this album ever since I listened to it for the first time in 1994 and I couldn’t believe that it would still click immediately after all these years. One of the most original, unique and innovative Hip Hop albums out there, with lots and lots of excursions into different styles and genres. Awesome production as well. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Wtf is Outlaw Country? Sounds like a failed state

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

Two dressed up clowns ruining an Ex-Punk band‘s otherwise solid songs with their uninspired guitar soli, whiny singing, and racist lyrics. Should have died from heroin 💉

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Incredibly boring 🥱 In case you’re wondering how boring, I asked ChatGPT and here are the best answers: 1️⃣ This album is so boring it makes elevator music sound like a mosh pit. 2️⃣This album is so boring it should come in a box set with a complimentary pillow and blanket. 3️⃣This album is so boring I had to check my pulse after every other song just to make sure I wasn’t comatose yet. All true btw

Traffic

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Another great discovery that I hadn’t previously known existed and that really blew me away. This is peak Proto-Noiserock (on a personal note: I don’t really see a connection to Neo-Psychedelia nor early REM but rather to bands like Chrome, Pere Ubu or even Devo whom nobody in their right mind would call ‚psychedelic‘ these days) I had to give this a fiver. kudos!

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

Pretenders

2/5

exactly zero memorable or remarkable moments on this completely forgettable album

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Ironically, I had just listened to Ride the Lightning for the first time in decades and was blown away by the incredible musicianship documented on this album. Hence, I was really hyped for MOP and celebrated when it showed up this morning. However, I have to say that it pales in comparison to RtL which is the superior album in every respect. I‘m still trying to figure out why but the obvious answer has been suggested a million times now: the death of Cliff Burton who had given an entirely new meaning to what musicianship can entail in Metal songwriting - compositions that raise passion and enthusiasm even in Non-Metalheads like me while staying true to the genre and pushing its boundaries further and further. I guess there is still something of that creative energy noticeable here but weaker and less cohesive. Im going to listen to RtL now

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Were it not for Brian Eno, David Bowie, Aphex Twin, Robert Fripp, Gang of Four, Autechre, Massive Attack, Portishead, Radiohead, Wire, Tricky, and many others, this album would give me ample reason to declare all British people insane just for buying this rubbish that borders on campy Eurotrash pop for considerable stretches of its playing time.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

Me (before listening to a Motörhead album): „Yeeeeeeeeaaaah, let’s do this, you animals! Let’s got! Motörhead! Rock‘n‘roll!!!!“ Also me (after having listened to a Motörhead album): „I think my migraine is acting up again“

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

➖For an AC/DC album it’s actually only decent ➕a decent AC/DC album still stands mile-high above the rest

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

I went in with the best of expectations and NYaCH only took five songs to shatter them all. Quite a few songs here are actually pretty terrible and almost ruined my day. In a world where Dinosaur Jr already published a few albums, why would I listen to Ragged Glory?

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

A-class seasonal-fit B-class songwriting C-class lyrics D-class human being Hence, I could give anything between 1 and 4 ⭐️ I‘m letting chance decide here:

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Being one of the absolute finest of the seventies, it makes me happy to see that this fantastic album has finally found the recognition it deserves. When I discovered it in the late 90s few people were actually familiar with let alone listening to this.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

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More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Ngl I hadn’t listened to this for more than 30 years and I liked it much, much more than I expected - particularly the crisp production by Steve Albini (RIP) struck me as almost perfect

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

1/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Boston

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

🐐

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Adele

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

1984

Van Halen

1/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUWW!

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Peter Gabriel

1/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

(CENSORED) The only solid song on here is Gloria and I’d prefer Van Morrisson’s ___ in my ___ over Patti Smith‘s whining voice in my ears any day 🍑 Top candidate for most overhyped album of all times

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Let‘s try my patented nostalgia-goggles here. Nostalgia-goggles ON: this is an absolutely fundamental classic and the seed of a budding genre, albeit rough, edgy, and chaotic. Revisiting this mess gives me goosebumps. Nostalgia-goggles OFF: this production is wobblier than the moon landing footage and feels like it has been recorded inside a steel bath tub by guys who were so stoned, drunk, tripping, or all of the above simultaneously that they had to relearn in real-time how to pronounce vowels or switch cords. Revisting this mess gives me goosebumps.

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

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Arise

Sepultura

3/5

I remember standing in the record store trying to decide between buying Arise or Roxette’s Joyride. I ended up buying Joyride but I have only vague memories of the tracks it contained (other than the title track). All of Arise’s tracks I still know by heart after all these years because luckily my friend Thomas dubbed me a tape and thanks to him I‘ve been revisiting one of the most formative records of my entire life today.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

I‘ve been waiting for this album. This is the big one for me 🤩 the one album I listened to most often in the last couple of years and together with Vol. 2 one of my absolute all-time favorites. Call me crazy but I rank this in the same tier as Johann Sebastian Bach. Hence, it’s for me - in the words of Aldous Huxley - „ The music that’s closest to silence, closest, in spite of its being so highly organized, to pure, hundred-percent-proof Spirit.“ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

One thing the generator definitely achieved was to teach me that my appreciation of Neil Young‘s music was way too naive. Before subscribing here, I was working with the assumption that his take on Folk rock was pretty ok and worth an occasional listen - turns out I can’t stand this Boomer crap.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Theee things the generator has taught me: 1. most HipHop albums are way too long 2. one Neil Young album would have sufficed 3. Stones are not an album band - even though they have (at least) 4 of the greatest songs of the 20th century, there’s a LOT of mediocrity in between But this album I really enjoyed 😘

1977

Ash

3/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

one of the great loves of my life ❤️

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

5/5

I can’t describe how incredibly good it felt to listen to this record for the first, second, third and fourth time yesterday - imagine being brought close to multiple orgasms by a record: that was basically my experience with this masterpiece perfected by Steve Albini‘s production.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Didn’t listen, didn’t care