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Album	You	Global	Diff
Opus Dei Laibach	5	2.4	+2.6
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.42	+2.58
Suicide Suicide	5	2.46	+2.54
Orbital 2 Orbital	5	2.69	+2.31
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	5	2.78	+2.22
Planet Rock: The Album Afrika Bambaataa	5	2.79	+2.21
The White Room The KLF	5	2.79	+2.21
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	5	2.84	+2.16
Arular M.I.A.	5	2.84	+2.16
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	5	2.86	+2.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wall Pink Floyd	1	4.13	-3.13
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.57	-2.57
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.64	-1.64
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	2	3.6	-1.6
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.4	-1.4
2112 Rush	2	3.37	-1.37
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	2	3.37	-1.37
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31

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Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	3	5
Joni Mitchell	2	5
Prince	2	5
New Order	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Willie Nelson	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Rush	2	1.5

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Artist	Ratings
Pink Floyd	4, 1

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All Ratings

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

Enjoyed this. Wish I’d been more aware of it at the time. A fascinating collection of songs.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

I like the 'no cymbals' rule. Engaging, thoughtful, listenable in spite of being Peter Gabriel. The singles were the best thing about the album, though, which slightly disappointed. Low 4 star.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

An absolute masterpiece. Nilsson’s voice is in top form.

The Band

3/5

Unfussy roots Americana. Prefer CSNY.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Well, I know this one. JD don't fascinate me as much as they do some people, but I do love their iciness and the way the instruments sound out-of-tune and yet aren't. Good dynamics and drama. An accidental masterpiece.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

A masterpiece, Joni in transition. Touching, marvellous and at times laugh-out-loud funny. Thanks to Prince for turning me on to this album in the first place.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

On the one hand, a document of its time - that time a band that sounded like Slade had been influenced by the Pistols suddenly burst onto programmes like The Word and demanded your attention. It's also a major offender in the Loudness Wars, as Oasis's output was recorded so compressed that it pinned your ears against the wall. But the songs. Oh, the songs. Cigarettes and Alcohol in particular. Cryptic lyrics, rock 'n' roll excess and noize, noize, noize.

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

Not my thing at all at first, but grew considerably in stature on subsequent listens.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

An absolute gem, this. Why have I never heard of it until today?

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

"Ya don't fuck abaht wi' Jack White" Jason Williamson, Sleaford Mods The White Stripes hit their high-water mark with this gorgeous 21st century refinement of garage rock. From the stadium-filling riffmonster that is "Seven Nation Army" to the whimsy of "It's True That We Love One Another", the album doesn't hit a bum note. An absolute classic.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

5/5

A game changer. Admittedly one that spawned OMD, but let's gloss over that. I was fascinated by Kraftwerk as a child, and the notion that songs didn't have to be about humans, or, indeed, emotion. Love this album so much.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Suede

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Perfect.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Great ensemble album, with the interplay between the band contributing to an incredible final product.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Absolutely stunning songwriting underpinned by Kenney Jones' perfect drumming. A great band for a great songwriter.

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

3/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

If this has been by any other band than the Stones, it would have passed without notice.

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Paul Simon

4/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Iron Maiden

2/5

Dire Straits

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

5/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

The best album of the 1980s and the last great album Prince recorded. I once broke a toe dancing barefoot to Housequake. It's that good.

Hms Fable

Shack

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

A strangely tentative album with a degree of recycled material. Think I prefer Bookends.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

4/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

1/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

2112

Rush

2/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Suicide

5/5

Technique

New Order

5/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Dazzled by the brilliance, put off by the cringe

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

4/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Sheet Music

10cc

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

I wouldn’t buy it, but if I walked into a bar with a band plying like that, I’d not only set the drinks up, but I’d have to be gently prised out of the bar at closing time whilst noisily shouting for yet another encore.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Bert Jansch

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

5/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

5/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

5/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

4/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

5/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

5/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

John Prine

5/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

5/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

1/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Garbage

4/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

5/5

The White Room

The KLF

5/5

Drunk

Thundercat

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Wild Gift

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

5/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

5/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

5/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Caetano Veloso

4/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Joan Baez

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Arular

M.I.A.

5/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

5/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Risque

CHIC

5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Os Mutantes

5/5

This is great fun - bright, daft, tuneful, but with something sly going on underneath. Little weird noises, odd turns, bits that seem to grin while they’re quietly rearranging the room. It comes from that moment where Brazilian music could be playful and dangerous at once - weird enough to smuggle the mischief through for a while before the junta caught up.

Scissor Sisters

5/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5