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Album	You	Global	Diff
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	5	2.68	+2.32
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	5	3.21	+1.79
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
The Clash The Clash	5	3.54	+1.46
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.62	+1.38
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	4	2.75	+1.25
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.77	+1.23
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.1	-2.1
Vol. 4 Black Sabbath	2	3.75	-1.75
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	2	3.61	-1.61
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Arrival ABBA	2	3.5	-1.5
C'est Chic CHIC	2	3.34	-1.34
Hypnotised The Undertones	2	3.06	-1.06
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	2	3.04	-1.04
Midnight Ride Paul Revere & The Raiders	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Clash	2	5

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Popular Reviews

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

tough to get through

1 likes

1-Star Albums (1)

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Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

Interesting but not eventful. Was not a bad listen but no songs really moved me. Not sure I have much more to say.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Metallica

3/5

Decent but as expected metal

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Good on though I have heard it all before.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Decent but not memorable

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

not my fave sabbath

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Classic

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Decent but other outlast are better

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Better than I thought

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Minutemen were better

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Good album

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Had not heard before. Pretty darn good

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Good stuff

Cypress Hill

3/5

Solid rap album. not sure it should be in the 1001

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Good but short

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Disappointing album from eno and bowie

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Loud noisy great!

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

Worse than I would have through. Mainly Unmemorable

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

Classic

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

Meh

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Decent but not great

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Oddly poor

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

pretty good but less good than I remember

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Interesting and new to me

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Decent

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Did not move me one way or another

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

not sure I get the hype on this one

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Sexy time

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Pretty good

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Classic funk

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Better than I remember but still some meh on it.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

decent

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Pretty good but kind of a one noter

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

I listened to this a lot when it came out. It's pretty good but I do not listen to it anymore

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Never heard this before. Was pretty good.

Common

3/5

Solid

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Pretty great blues. Crowd is amazing

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

Interesting stuff

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Interesting music.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

One of their better ones

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

love this one

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

tough to get through

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Holds up quite well

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Some good songs but some dross on there too

Garbage

3/5

Pretty good but slightly dated

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Very good jazz

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Classic

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

It horrible but did not strike me as interesting at all

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Good but short and known

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

The Kinks

4/5

Pretty good. need to listen to it more to really know how good it is.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Not sure this is necessary listening but it is interesting

Gorillaz

3/5

It as good as I thought it would be. Clint Eastwood is a good song though.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Some good songs. Some not as good

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Better than I remember but there are parts that drive me buggy.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Great stuff

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Classic

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

5/5

I am partial to this great album

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Pretty good stuff

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Claasic

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Good set but not insanely good.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Some great songs but some dross too

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Amazing

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Music is better than I remember. The lyrics can be cringe from time to time but it's much better than i thought it would be.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Really good album

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

better than I thought it would be

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

Not bad but not sure if listen to again

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Interesting songs in addition to the hits but not necessarily good.

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

Interesting and I liked it more than I thought I would

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Better than I thought but not great

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Classoc

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

not the stuff for me

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

4/5

Quite good and interesting

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Classic. Good aongs

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Pretty good but not great

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Better than I thought. May listen again

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Interesting but also kind of tuneless

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Little underwhelmed on this one

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Fun pop rave ups.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I’ve heard worse

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

I like some songs but seems uneven

The Clash

5/5

Amazing album

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Good album. Kind of long and there’s some filler but great stuff too

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

I was really surprised and liked this quite a bit. Almost 5 stars

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Pretty good album but not their best.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

Pretty good album and interesting

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Some really nice songs but sort of one notey and not that interesting.