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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
The New Tango	5	2.88	+2.12
Blood And Chocolate	5	2.92	+2.08
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn	5	3.11	+1.89
Being There	5	3.22	+1.78
Peter Gabriel	5	3.23	+1.77
Live At Leeds	5	3.33	+1.67
Brilliant Corners	5	3.33	+1.67
Red Headed Stranger	5	3.35	+1.65
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)	5	3.39	+1.61
Hot Buttered Soul	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Meat Is Murder	1	3.31	-2.31
Channel Orange	1	3.31	-2.31
Timeless	1	2.53	-1.53
A Rush Of Blood To The Head	2	3.44	-1.44
Lost Souls	2	3.16	-1.16
Hunting High And Low	2	3.12	-1.12

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Artists with 2+ albums

Artist	Albums	Average
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5

5-Star Albums (31)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

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At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Is this punk? Absolutely!

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1-Star Albums (3)

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The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

1/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

5/5

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

The album that reminds us "there's a bathroom on right." It is also worth noting that the Highway Patrol recovered The Dude's tape. Thank goodness the boss at the crime lab had them boys working in shifts!

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Making sexy time!

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Absolutely adore this one.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Slowly simmering, this gorgeous production showcases Isaac Hayes in the most tender way to butter the music consumer's soul.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Simply a classic.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

Is it a Beatles knock-off or influence? Do I like this album or love it? The Kinks are an important band, and this is an enjoyable album.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Felt a little apprehensive at the beginning, but by the end, completely entertained.

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Ridiculous, childish, and entertaining.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Rich and dense. Plenty to unpack.

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Even though Bowie has the most entries on this list, there's a very good chance Brian Eno is associated with more albums than anyone else. With that being said, what a wonderful collaboration of these two on David Bowie's Low.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

With Thumpasorus Peoples like Bootsy, George, and Maceo, how can you go wrong?!?

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Definitely one of the more interesting bands on the list that has more than one entry.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Too much Coldplay in one sitting.

The Clash

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

The Band

3/5

Bad Company

3/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Would be more enjoyable on ecstasy. Some interesting stuff, but too pedestrian.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Brutal lyrics, but highly entertaining.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Pure entertainment!

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Deserves to be on 1001 for many reasons.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Willie in the pocket. Great late night album.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Vu Ja De all over again!

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Coming off of Red Headed Stranger two albums prior, it was difficult to change gears for this album. You can't get any more Americana than Willie singing pop standards.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Maybe if I had a head full of MDMA...

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Not as heavy as expected. With nine members, the sound should be bigger. The vocals don't always work. They are not as crazy and hard as once believed.....but the drummer rocks and there are a few interesting musical moments throughout. Explain to me, Robert Dimery, why Slipknot has two entries and Tool has zero.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Second half makes up for the first.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Just might be the best album from 1986. Based on the reactions of others, Elvis seems to experience the black licorice polarization that many artists experience. In this case, black licorice is delicious!

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Some good stuff on here, but does it need to be this long? Not very dynamic for a double album.

Dire Straits

5/5

A real humdinger

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

John Entwistle is a stone-cold killer!

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Um, it's The Beatles!

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Good, not great. Without knowing his entire catalog, the 90s production value makes me wonder how much of his success was driven by the local music industry. The Casio style keys, accompanied by the electric drums, gets in the way of some beautiful music.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

While reinventing themselves with new soundscapes of forward thinking, The Cure were able to maintain their identity while sounding like themselves.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

What an extreme disconnect between band name and sound.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Is this punk? Absolutely!

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Feeling a little dirty after that.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Pure fun!

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

The genius of Syd Barrett.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Does this push harder in a direction that no one is already doing at this time? Maybe. Is it raw? Definitely. It's as if the whole album is based on Hendrix's You See Me.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

When one produces their own album, you can put any track you want on the record. In Jimi's case, it seems that he may have ok'd practically the entire session. One way to look at it, this album lacks in cohesion. The other way is to imagine you are sitting at this session watching the magic behind the curtain.

Blur

3/5

Interesting choices at times. Enjoyed more than Parklife.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

"Let's cut it up like a pie." Lots of pickin fun. Gorgeous version of Both Sides Now that feels so different from the rest of the album. The studio and stage banter is interesting, at times, but finishing an already long album with 8 minutes of it is unnecessary.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

First track has the word funk in the title without any funk. Not a good start to this 90s laden album. Talking about this album with a friend, he most eloquently articulated that this album is "meh..." Agreed.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Some really good moments, but mostly a safe album. Great music to have on in the background during a group setting. But essential, purposeful listening, probably not. Just as some songs are considered album fillers, this album may be considered a book filler for Robert Dimery.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Always sounding like himself, Monk has a style all his own. His unique approach blends perfectly with the two different smokin line ups contained within these recordings.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

1/5

Finding very little to compliment here. It keeps sliding back and forth from boring to annoying. Not really into the overt digital production.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Enjoyable listening...however, One More Dance would have been much more entertaining (and perhaps funnier) without dude laughing all the way through.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Wanting to be a part of the new sound of their day, this band doesn't have much that is uniquely theirs, and yet their style progressively looks forward. Even though they are an American band, most of this album feels like they came straight out of the British invasion. The explanation at the beginning (and at the end) of Melody for an Unknown Girl is lame and unnecessary. However, this does not interfere with the fact that this is an enjoyable listen with interesting sounds of the time.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Classic

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Love them or hate them, the Beasties are an essential part of the conversation.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Impressive for a "second tier" Radiohead album.