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Album	You	Global	Diff
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	5	2.85	+2.15
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	5	3.1	+1.9
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.31	+1.69
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	5	3.37	+1.63
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.38	+1.62
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
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.64	-2.64
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.64	-2.64
Illmatic Nas	1	3.61	-2.61
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	1	3.6	-2.6
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	1	3.5	-2.5
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	1	3.45	-2.45
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.45	-2.45
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	1	3.42	-2.42
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	1	3.41	-2.41

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

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Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	3	1
Eminem	2	1
M.I.A.	2	1.5
Miles Davis	3	2

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Thank the lord its only 33 mins long.

1-Star Albums (45)

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All Ratings (358)

A favourite for 50 years.

Thank the lord its only 33 mins long.

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

Enjoyed this much more than I anticipated.

Enjoyed this one, good fun

Sounds very dated,

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Nice voice, Shame about the rest

Overproduced and overrated.

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

Utter shite.

Why?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

All a bit waily for me.

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.

Not for me.

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.

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

Absolutely shite.

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

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.

Tedious!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Awful.

Nope, Rap is still boring.

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.

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.

Pretentious bollocks!

So it turns out that the drugs you take as a senior citizen are very different from the drugs you need to take to enjoy this mindless repetitive nonsense. Who knew!