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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan	5	3.14	+1.86
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61
Who's Next The Who	5	3.91	+1.09
A Date With The Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.86	-2.86
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.73	-2.73
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	1	3.32	-2.32
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.32	-2.32
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	1	3.17	-2.17
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9
Arc Of A Diver Steve Winwood	1	2.88	-1.88
Fly Or Die N.E.R.D	1	2.86	-1.86
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.84	-1.84
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles · 1 likes

5/5

The pivot point for the entire rock movement, a whole catalog of prototypes for a new way to make music.

1-Star Albums (9)

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Dookie

Green Day

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Increibly strong debut album. Less consistently solid that the two albums to follow, but still packed with strong pop-rock compositions. I bought this the first time I saw it in a record store almost 45 years ago and never regretted it.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

The pivot point for the entire rock movement, a whole catalog of prototypes for a new way to make music.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

5/5

The synth music sounds very mechanical at first, but the delivery and the messaging are all human. And of course Cars is a legend of the dance floor.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

It's an acquired taste, I guess. There are very long slow passages. This is not mainstream listening.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

An important pioneering album in getting some lasting good out of the violent eruption of punk, this album (unlike works like Patti Smith's Horses) stands as a jangly artifact and not a timeless artwork.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

1/5

Same old schlock from rock and roll pretenders.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Personally I think Hendrix is overrated, but the album is historically important.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

A very well crafted album -- maybe too much so. This album, containing only seven songs, was released right at the cusp of a new age in music, where shorter songs were valued over eight-minute ego trips. Case in point: Their next album was Gaucho, another seven songs, a full three years later. Aja was released about the same time as Elvis Costello's My Aim is True. By the time Gaucho was released, Costello had released around forty songs, each a mini-masterpiece. TL/dr: Aja was well-crafted, but that's about all.

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

One of the most solid rock albums of the Eighties. Contains the wonderful Walk of Life and the title track, plus the mega-hit Money for Nothing..

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

1/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

One of the three best classic rock albums ever. Solid high quality all the way through, not a speck of cereal.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Historically important, empirically crap.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

Jazz

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

The finest distillation of laste 60s rock moving into a new decade.

The Undertones

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

1/5

The worst kind of 70s pop-slop from someone with shallow rock cred.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The height of commercially accessible 70s rock.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Dylan returns to form after a 10 year slump.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

John Prine

4/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

1/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

4/5

Foo Fighters

2/5

I expected better from Dave Grohl. Such lifeless yacht-rock pap.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

A nice album that doesn't quite stand the test of time. The love-as-war shtick gets a little bogged down -- but Accidents Will Happen remains a gem, and the original album including a bonus single with a slower, piano-backed version of the song. One of the band's influences was Abba's Arrival album, as you can tell from the brightness of the sound, and the impeccable melodies.