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Album	You	Global	Diff
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	5	2.85	+2.15
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
3 + 3 The Isley Brothers	5	3.59	+1.41
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.61	+1.39
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.7	+1.3
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.73	+1.27
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	5	3.74	+1.26
Maverick A Strike Finley Quaye	4	2.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.23	-3.23
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.63	-2.63
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	1	3.61	-2.61
Illmatic Nas	1	3.6	-2.6
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	1	3.51	-2.51
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	1	3.45	-2.45
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	1	3.43	-2.43
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	1	3.42	-2.42
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67
Nirvana	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Miles Davis	2	1.5

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Popular Reviews

1984

Van Halen · 2 likes

2/5

Thank the lord its only 33 mins long.

1-Star Albums (36)

All Ratings

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

A favourite for 50 years.

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Thank the lord its only 33 mins long.

Ramones

2/5

I didn't like punk much in the 70's. Nothing has changed, all too shouty for my taste.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Enjoyed this much more than I anticipated.

Debut

Björk

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Enjoyed this one, good fun

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

Sounds very dated,

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Bert Jansch

2/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Pleasantly surprised by this one, really enjoyed it, Led Zeppelin came to mind, particularly with some of the guitar work.

Joanna Newsom

1/5

Kala

M.I.A.

1/5

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

1/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

1/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

1/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Black Sabbath

2/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Pleasantly surprised by this one, not a punk fan but found myself enjoying this. Really good guitar and sax and interesting vocals and lyrics. It won't convert me to punk but I enjoyed it.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Bad Company

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

5/5

Infected

The The

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Used to own this in the days of CDs, nice to revisit it many tears kater

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

This could come in really useful, I was fast asleep after only 7 minutes. An insomniacs dream, if there is such a thing.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

1/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

1/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

1/5

This is about an hour and 10 minutes too long for me.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

This was going well till I got to the last track which hasn't told the test of time. An anthem to coercive control. Still great music.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Nice voice, Shame about the rest

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Overproduced and overrated.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

1/5

Tried to judge the music and not the artist. Failed. 1 star.

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

Utter shite.

High Violet

The National

1/5

Why?

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

1/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

I started listening to this feeling quite cheerful, 10 mins in I was gloomy, two tracks later I was clinically depressed. Luckily I found the off switch before self harm became an issue but it was close. All in all not for me.

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

These ladies need to cheer up a bit. They are beautiful, have great voices but the songs are too depressing.

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this, especially Disc 2. This woman can really sing, she sort of went under my radar, I guess because Britney was so big at the same time. Some of it's a bit weird and self indulgent but by no means the worst thing I've listened to this week.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Sadly Biggie was taken from us in 1997, just a couple of years earlier and he wouldn't have been able to inflict this vile nonsense on the music world.

Blur

3/5

After 2 days of rap I was really happy when Blur appeared today. Then I listened to it, what a disappointment, apart from the first two tracks which I already knew and like, the rest is such a dirge. As a Mancunian I was always more Oasis than Blur in the 90's, turns out I was right.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

All a bit waily for me.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Funkier than The Four Tops or The Temptations, not quite up to Isaac Hayes, still this is the sound of my youth and gets an easy 5 stars for the memories it brought back to me.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

1/5

Not for me.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Joan Baez

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

The Only Ones

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

1977

Ash

4/5

Stephen Stills

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

1/5

I've tried to like jazz for years without success, this didn't help. It sounds like next doors teenager got some instruments for Christmas and keeps on practicing. If I'd paid for this I'd be heartbroken. A solid 1 star with another one on offer if he ever learns all the notes and what order to play them in.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Being There

Wilco

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

1/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

I normally like Sinatra but this is the proof that everyone can have a bad day

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Absolutely shite.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

3/5

Astonishing, not by any means an easy listen but I'm glad I've been exposed to it.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

It's amazing that at 15 minutes this is still a quarter of an hour too long. It is a real stinker, some might say it's ground breaking of its' time, not me I think it's utterly shite, lots of noise and shouting, no message, no music, no chance I'll ever listen to this hateful nonsense again.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Moby Grape

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

1/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Wild Gift

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

2112

Rush

2/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Mask

Bauhaus

1/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Tedious!

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

When I started this project I wanted to be exposed to different things that I had not experienced before, mostly it has been enjoyable and worthwhile. I didn't think I would like this. I was right. Of the 150+ albums I have listened to so far this comes a firm last. There is nothing in this to redeem it. Thank goodness it's over and I never have to listen to it again.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Amazing songwriting, fantastic lyrics, a true poet. If that were it it would be an easy 5 stars, but that voice, Jesus it's awful. Every cover of a Dylan song sounds better than him doing it. I'm less than 200 albums in to this project, wonder how much more of this I will be subjected to.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

1/5

Thank goodness I've got to go to a funeral later, it might cheer me up a bit after listening to this depressing nasal whining.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

This is amazing. The first album in this process that I had to immediately listen to again. I don't often give 5 stars, but I'd give this 10 if I could. Full of pathos, self awareness and fantastic imagery. If all his career was building up to this it was worth it.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

I've seen Mr Rascal in a few UK TV programmes, he seems like a very nice chap with a good sense of humour ( for my American friends, that is the correct spelling of humour ). This sense of fun obviously leaks over into his musical offerings, to present this absolute shite as music suggests a deep sense of irony. Well done. And then to make it nearly an hour long, absolutely hilarious. One star for the joke.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

1/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

1/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

1/5

Awful.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

1/5

Nope, Rap is still boring.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

I'd never heard of The Icarus Line before this popped up on my list. I now look back on that as the good old days. Pointless noise.

Third

Portishead

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

Absolutely shit from start to finish, if only no stars was a possibility. Terrible music, worse lyrics, not a single redeeming feature. My life has been made worse by listening to this crap.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5