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Album	You	Global	Diff
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.31	+1.69
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	5	3.38	+1.62
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Orbital 2 Orbital	4	2.69	+1.31
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	4	2.71	+1.29
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	4	2.72	+1.28
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
School's Out Alice Cooper	1	3.2	-2.2
New Wave The Auteurs	1	2.86	-1.86
Back to Basics Christina Aguilera	1	2.75	-1.75
Dummy Portishead	2	3.71	-1.71
Talking Book Stevie Wonder	2	3.71	-1.71
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	1	2.65	-1.65
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.64	-1.64
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.62	-1.62
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	1	2.6	-1.6
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	2	5
Beatles	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Alice Cooper	2	1.5

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Popular Reviews

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles · 2 likes

3/5

Catchy and classic but prefer the later albums

Suicide

Suicide · 1 likes

2/5

I get why it’s important but absolutely not for me

Heroes

David Bowie · 1 likes

3/5

Wanted to enjoy this more! The title track is iconic, the rest I can take or leave

New Wave

The Auteurs · 1 likes

1/5

Away with yourself

Disraeli Gears

Cream · 1 likes

3/5

Psychedelic blues charm but bit of a mixed bag

1-Star Albums (5)

All Ratings

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Like a warm hug....that occasionally scolds you about the Vietnam War

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Jumped Into The Fire has jumped into my most listened

Common

3/5

Enjoyed Testify, well produced album by an absolute madman

New Wave

The Auteurs

1/5

Away with yourself

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Wall to wall bangers, no fillers! Every song feels like a soundtrack to some mad 80s film, the production is absurdly lush

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Loved it

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Just didn't click with this

Debut

Björk

3/5

Probably should have listened to this first, rather than Crocodiles after the bank holiday weekend when I've been playing catch-up. One had me feeling like i was wearing a soaking wet trench coat and the other had me looking through a glittery kaleidoscope. The Icelandic fairy queen FTW

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

I loved this album when it first came out, even back in my Nu-Metal–obsessed days which says a lot! Nestled on my CD rack between Follow the Leader and Significant Other, it still holds up brilliantly.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Those harmonies are ridiculous

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Enjoyed Jennifer and Lauft... Heisst Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt Bald..Lauft had me floating through space

Achtung Baby

3/5

The eternal U2 conundrum: Great album that really reinvented themselves from their 80s sound and having One on it (I'd say my favourite of theirs) BUT.......fuckin Bono's a ballbawg

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Such an enjoyable album! Sun Hits the Sky and Late in the Day both cracker.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Aw man, what can I say? Enough doom riffs to power a small city! From Snowblind to Changes, a heavy, trippy, tender and unhinged album

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

All My Friends still hits me in the feels, great memories flooding through listening to this album this morning

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

LA gutter sleaze at its finest

Dummy

Portishead

2/5

Enjoyed Glory Box and Sour Times

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Bring the 60s fuzz, really enjoyed this listen

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Cuban delights

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

It has it all

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Rock Box is a cracker

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

The music equivalent of Demona from Gargoyles

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

This album is the DNA of half the hip-hop samples I’ve ever heard

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

So unhinged, loved getting lost in the weirdness of this album

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

I liked it

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

I had this on repeat when I was younger. I'd say the same as all of you, but this hasn't aged well and now I feel ancient. Cheers, Album Generator :( Stan and The Way I Am still slap so I'm meeting my review halfway with 12 year old Darren.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

It’s the anti-Appetite for Destruction, I'd give it 3.5

Black Sabbath

5/5

The sound of rain, the toll of the bell and then Tony hits ye right up the bake with THAT riff? Christ alive, hook it to my veins! Can I give it 10?

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

What an album! Morello bringing this sound in 92 must have left some amount of jaws on the ground and Zack's manifesto/battle cry wants me to stockpile some petrol bombs

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

I do enjoy my atmospheric sci-fi soundtracks and can see why this would have been groundbreaking back in the 70s

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

It just never seemed to get going

The Clash

4/5

What a debut, pure adrenaline!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

This would be a 3.5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Had this on while I was cooking lunch and enjoyed it as background beats

Dire Straits

3/5

Catching up with this one on a Monday morning has me starting the week with a nice, laid-back vibe. Knopfler is something else (3.5)

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Fuzzy funky beats with nonsense lyrics

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Two big hitters at the start of this album, but the rest stood up too

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Enjoy Q-Tip's smooth and chilled delivery.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Naw, thought I would have enjoyed this for some reason

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

4/5

The glory days of nu-wave

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Bittersweet divorce pop perfection

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Grim enough but good

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

VERY questionable lyrics in a lot of the tracks but Lemmy's bass sounds like a chainsaw chewing through a power grid. Pure greasy rock n roll

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Love this. Feels like it’s been constantly in my rotation for as long as I can remember, the cassette was always kicking around the house when I was growing up

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

No honky tonk good time on this country album. There’s a heavy lived in sadness to it especially after finding out he’d done time before writing it.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

A couple of tracks not too bad but i felt like I zoned out for the 40mins, very forgettable

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Gorgeous production and iconic songs but a bit too polished for its own good

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Never listened to Sugar before but the riffs hooked me straight off the bat. Changes absolutely slapped and the guitars sound massive all the way through

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Felt like I was slightly floating through this one. Didn’t mind it.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Could practically feel the cigarette smoke burning my eyes during this one. Still, pure atmosphere

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Enjoyed that

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Couple of great tracks that really hit, but a lot of filler in between. ★★½

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

SLAPPED

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Paper Planes still sounds great but the rest of the album didn’t land the way I remembered. Maybe it just sounded better when I was 19 and drinking carry outs under random bridges. ★★½

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Hell yeah, brother

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Close to a 4, couple of big hitters on this one ★★★½☆

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

Chaotic in a good way

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Never really listened to Plup before but that was class *Jarvis Cocker strut

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

So close to a 4 but i'll keep that for daydream ★★★½☆

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

I’ve got a core memory of Lovefool coming on the radio in my Da’s old Astra as we drove into Dungloe during the ’97 summer holidays (Atlantic 252). Bonus star for that Sabbath cover, obviously.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Enjoyed that! Smooth assed country and every song felt like its own little short film ★★★½

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Brilliant, better than a DeLorean

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

It's a bit of a mixed bag

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

A bit much for a Sunday night when you’re slightly hanging but still powerful

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Full of great vibes

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Too all over the place for me, I’ll stick to the best of.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Class, never heard of them before. Good morning, Captain played a good few times this morning

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Love These Day. The rest of the album is emotionally heavy enough to give your soul shin splints.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Had this when I was 11! Great then, great now. Hendrix still melts everything in sight

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

Threatened with divorce if I didn’t give this 5, luckily it’s a household classic anyway

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Not for me

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Don’t mind the Stones and a couple of tracks on here are decent bluesy tunes

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

a sci-fi hug from a sad wizard

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Catchy and classic but prefer the later albums

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

A fuzz tsunami

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Pulled me in from the Start.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Like an extra shot of espresso while I was cooking breakfast

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

I’d spin again without hesitation! Catchy and weirdly comforting, have I been watching too many John Hughes movies?

Van Halen

2/5

more sizzle than steak for my ears

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Psychedelic blues charm but bit of a mixed bag

White Denim

4/5

Class

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Stylish, just not my thing

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

nothing is loud but everything hurts

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Interesting ideas but I mostly wanted him to plug the guitar back in

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Effortless

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Get it right up ye our kid

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Cheerful music for sad little weirdos like me

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Fuck YES

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Big, emotional and full of beaut guitar noises. Easy to love and still hits hard

Iron Maiden

3/5

Torture me back at your lair!

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Solid and inoffensive, a few enjoyable tracks but mostly generic rock.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Elegia is a stunning standout

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Atmospheric and cinematic too. My fav things

School's Out

Alice Cooper

1/5

Nope. Pass.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Pure powerful soul

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

A bit chaotic in parts but good craic

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

full minimalist cowboy monk

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

How much prog is too much prog? Impressive, ridiculous and exhausting (2.5)

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

I can feel the sweat dripping through the speakers here and I dig it

Talvin Singh

2/5

Interesting, but it never really pulled me in

Suicide

2/5

I get why it’s important but absolutely not for me

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Respect it slightly more than I love it, but still good!

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Chaotic brilliance all coming together

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

I can see the appeal, at the start it wasn't for me but it had won me over at the end. Such 90s vibes

Technique

New Order

3/5

sadness… but lets make it danceable.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Not bad aye

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Hüsker Dü walked so Sugar could run

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Easy to sink into this one

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Smoooooth 3.5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Superstition is absolutely class obvs but the rest feels a bit padded in places

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Every song has a core memory attached to it from my late teens. I said it's Brookvale mate via Laurel Drive please

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

Sounded better than School’s Out but still....this shock rock is shockingly crock

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Enjoyed the swagger of Frankie boy

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

It’s prog in its purest

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Comfortable, melodic and sneakily solid (3.5)

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

A fuzzy classic! ★★★★½

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Enjoyed that

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Spark up

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Nice warm feeling to this one, thought the Grateful Dead were a heavy band

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Class

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Beautiful in the bleakest possible way

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

Not a Bollywood fan

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Big feckin energy, great running album

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Few misses but enjoyable overall

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Beautifully immersive

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Enjoyed that more than I thought I would

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Yes yes, very nice jangly competence… can we get to the banger now?

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Bit mad but good craic

Metallica

5/5

Hell yeah brother

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Wanted to enjoy this more! The title track is iconic, the rest I can take or leave

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Better than Heroes, but not flawless. ★★★½

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Brutal and primitive, the anti-Beatles in the best way

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Don't like this polished country, give it to us raw and wriggling

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Timeless

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Some unreal basslines but more sex pest than anything

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

The title track is iconic but there’s more cracker tracks here than expected (3.5)

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Big band drama one minute, android liberation manifesto the next. Love myself some afrofuturism

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Pop done really well.

Adele

5/5

Big choruses, big vocals, big feelings. I was thinking 4.5 but have to go with 5......you just need a hug Gary

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

I had no idea what to expect with this one. Brilliant moody and hypnotic album

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Reggae right is brilliant ✊🏻

Fragile

Yes

4/5

What a ridiculous album, that opening bassline on Roundabout just kicked me in the balls

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Bittersweet thinking about him recording his last album in his living room but what a great album to go out on

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Magic

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

It must have been mad to hear this when it first came out, how groundbreaking it sounded

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Immersive and hazy

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Such a mad live album, 3.5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Smooth bombast brilliance ★★★½

808 State

3/5

Ravey fun, if a bit samey

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Messy brilliance and great craic. Tiocfaidh ár lá

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Paranoia you can move to

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

Raw blues with massive influence, class album

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I'd say peak Stones sleaze and swagger, really enjoyed it

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Great memories of playing this on repeat on my old 32MB MP3 player back in 3rd year art class

1999

Prince

3/5

Few big tracks in here but jesus the mans horned to the teeth

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

A middle of the road 3 for me

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

First proper listen to a Pavement album, really enjoyed this and I’ll definitely be going back for more. Yum yum

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Really well produced and enjoyed it more than expected (★★★½)

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Freedom! '90 absolutely slaps miles above the rest on this but still good

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

A lot going on with this one but just not my jam and toast

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Grand aye

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Enjoyable and short, yes and yes

Boston

3/5

Huge well polished arena rock that tickles the slap but a wee bit samey

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

1/5

Too long to keep my attention for something so mediocre

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Fantastic, I’d say my favourite boss album

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

I'll be back for seconds in this frosty little sonic cathedral

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

A 4 out of nowhere, well done lads. #gobyrds

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

I remember this being better

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Enjoyed that, big standouts Pump It Up and Radio Radio.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

4 stars for this big emotional sweep

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Yum yum, best of the Berlin wans

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Enjoyable

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

If Halcyon + On + On can make it on to the Mortal Kombat, Hackers and Mean Girls OST it deserves a 4

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

2/5

I enjoyed the opening track Beyond This World, but couldn't get into it, not my jam and toast

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

You know the drill.......helicopter blades chopping the humid air, jungle canopy below, some exhausted yanks staring out the door “Born on the Bayou” or “Fortunate Son” starts blasting....director thinks he just invented cinema

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

3.5 stars of smoothness

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Remember my brother having this album growing up, the artwork always stuck with me. Really enjoyable overall, a solid 3.5. Unfinished Sympathy still sounds sooo good.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Mesmerising beep boop classic