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Album	You	Global	Diff
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.29	+1.71
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.57	+1.43
3 + 3 The Isley Brothers	5	3.59	+1.41
1999 Prince	5	3.59	+1.41
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.42	-1.42
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.22	-1.22
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	2	3.11	-1.11

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Black Sabbath	2	5

5-Star Albums (19)

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Doolittle

Pixies · 1 likes

5/5

Brilliant album

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan · 1 likes

3/5

A bit same, but some classic tracks too like M.E and Cars

All Ratings

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Listened before. Great album musically, lyrics are fairly indecipherable.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Classic hard rock. The live version of Maggot Brain is unbelievable.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Great stuff

Peter Gabriel

3/5

I knew most of the big hits from this album, which are good. None of the other songs really blows me away though. Good production.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Brilliant album

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

The best

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Some classic tracks

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

Some classic tracks but also a lot of filler.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Did Marley write any bad songs?!

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Love Dusty’s voice, some great songs on this one.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

The Specials

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Beautiful version of the first time ever I saw your face. Decent album overall. The first track sounds terribly mixed for some reason, and the album version of a papa was a rollin stone is inferior to the single version imo, too long, not as powerful.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

If only Señor Burns was on this album. Alas, still enjoyable.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Stock standard rock but sounds great

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

One of the great guitar albums.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Never gets old. It feels like you’re there with them in a dingy man cave. Legendary.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Scratches so many of musical itches, particularly Lady Cab Driver and Let’s Pretend We’re Married. Funk, Dance, Guitar-heavy, brilliant.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

2/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

One of the great singing performances on one album, arrangements are perfection too.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

I don’t know why but I like this album a lot.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Been listening to this album since I was 15 and it’s still great. Nobody defined soul music quite like Otis Redding. His wailing, yearning voice hits like few others. Great songs, arrangements and musicians on this album. RIP Steve Cropper.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Probably 3 1/2 stars but seen as I can’t give half stars, I feel 3 would be harsh.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Not really sure what the fuss about Nick Drake is. Not that’s it’s bad but I don’t get the acclaim.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Like a greatest hits album, incredibly good. Sly was a genius

Slipknot

3/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

Used to think this was the best Bowie album. Not anymore but it still holds up well. Especially side A

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Surely this can’t be a coincidence, getting this album on Christmas Day?! Some classic Christmas tracks on here, with the Wall of Sound style featuring prominently.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

My problem with dream pop/shoegaze is always the indecipherable lyrics. Sounds good though as usual

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

How can anyone dislike this band? Great songs, their Jackie Wilson Said cover is brilliant. And of course, the iconic Come On Eileen. The As It Should Have Sounded version is great.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Song for song, this is one of the greatest rock albums of all time.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Superb, atmospheric album with great vocals, sampling, drum beats and instrumentation. Sounds even better on vinyl.

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

This album holds up well for the most part. Some classic tracks but admittedly some filler as well.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Good stuff, looking forward to my visit to the Stax museum in April!

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

A bit same, but some classic tracks too like M.E and Cars

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

An incredibly dense album that reveals more brilliance with every listen. Built for vinyl listening.

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

The O.G trip hop album, still sounds fresh. Album opens with a banger, has a slight lull, then from Five-Man Army onwards, every track is brilliant.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Excellent but not the best Marley album imo.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Surprisingly good, always though later era Aerosmith was pure rubbish. Still not quite reaching the heights of their early work.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

I very unique sounding album, with some excellent songs.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Tempted to give it a 2 but there are some good tracks that save it. Not Radiohead’s best work.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Great songwriting, vocals are occasionally a bit grating however.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

The Doors

4/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

This one was quite interesting, although a lot of the songs sounded like they could have been used during the meth cooking montages in Breaking Bad.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Giving this album a 3 is generous, and I like the Doors a lot.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Not as good as when I first listened to it when I was 14, but what is?

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Rude reggae.

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

It’s been a while since I’ve played this in full. This album was a huge part of my life when it came out. First year of college, plenty of free time, smoking, drinking, playing PlayStation and cards. Great times. We must have played this album nearly 100 times. Like most classics, it holds up very well. I had forgotten what an incredible song Bad Religion is. Powerful and heart breaking.