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Album	You	Global	Diff
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	5	3.26	+1.74
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	5	3.45	+1.55
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
The Stranger Billy Joel	5	3.86	+1.14
Who's Next The Who	5	3.91	+1.09
Moby Grape Moby Grape	4	2.94	+1.06
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	1	3	-2
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	1	2.84	-1.84
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.61	-1.61
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	2	3.2	-1.2
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	1	2.11	-1.11
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	2	3.03	-1.03

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James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown · 1 likes

4/5

Great performance, tight musicianship, great atmosphere, and great singing and band leading by the Godfather of Soul himself. Only complaint is that I wish that the bass was placed in the centre of the mix instead of being hard-panned to the left!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists · 1 likes

3/5

Dear Phil Spector, Thanks for the Christmas gift, you creepy bastard. We will never forgive you for murdering Lana Clarkson, but here’s three stars for making a Christmas album that I actually wouldn’t mind listening to.

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

1-Star Albums (3)

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Moon Safari

Air

3/5

This was my first album, and I had never heard of this group before. I had heard “Sexy Boy” before in a movie.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Classic album that gets the job done in a little over 30 minutes.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

Sorry, not much of a rap guy.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Notably more popular here than on Rate Your Music.

The Stone Roses

5/5

I’ve never heard this before, but this might be one of the best debuts I have heard. Originally gave it a four, but decided to bump it up to a five.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Imagine if The Cure actually released an album that only went for seventeen seconds…

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Funny to think that these guys were once considered to be the next Beatles.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

I don’t know why John Barleycorn deserves to die, but I liked this album anyway. One of the tracks near the end of the album convinced me to bump my score up to a four.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

1/5

Has more songs than London Calling, just to name one classic double album, yet none are worthy of being on that masterpiece.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Back when country music was not about beer and booty, but when it was about shooting bad guys and getting hanged. Oh, how I miss the old times.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

When looking at supergroups, I’d take the Travelling Wilburys over this group any day of the week.

2112

Rush

3/5

Pretty good prog album. I will not make this review longer than the first track.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

1/5

Oh, how I wish the lord had taught them some songs that are actually any good, instead of this lame punk nonsense…

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Always good to get a Neil Young album.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

I liked this a lot more than most people would.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Sorry Pitchfork, but I didn’t care for this. Which is strange, because Fiona Apple has done some good stuff.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Shame that Billy Joel has only one album on this list.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Okay, I’ll shake my money maker, though not when anyone is watching. I’m a really bad dancer

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Because I never really listened to Radiohead before, I had mixed feelings about this album. There were some great songs, but also some that I did not care for. Maybe I should relisten to it one day.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Decent ‘80s music. Never listened to much New Order before. Particularly liked the first couple of tracks.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Ha! A Joy Division album only one day after a New Order record.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Much more enjoyable than going on a fishing trip (never liked fishing, though this is a really good album).

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Docked one star because the cover kinda creeps me out.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Excellent double album that stays consistent throughout all four sides. I even liked the stuff with the sped up vocals.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

A totally solid album, though there are some songs with extremely strange titles.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

“Wild Honey Pie” is awful, but this still deserves 5 stars.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

A little over-the-top with distortion, but some good melodies, so three stars.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

After a two month break from the generator, I’m back with this album. A decent suite of piano driven songs.

Elvis Presley

4/5

Ah, an Elvis Presley album. I really enjoyed this one. A splendid 30 minute collection of rockers and ballads. This is my 29th album overall and the 13th album that I gave four or five stars to. Interestingly, none of those 13 albums were released after 1989. That makes me feel older than I actually am………..

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Better than I expected it to be. Has quite a good sound quality for a punk record, which is nice. I’d also like to point out that every track on the album is tagged as explicit on Apple Music, despite the fact that the only potentially offensive language is a single use of “bitching” (Note that I’m not counting the lyrics of the dozen bonus tracks, I didn’t listen to them). How strange.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

An interesting, but flawed album, that has no definitive version (just look at the number of alternative tracklists on Wikipedia). I enjoyed it, but it felt a bit…..disconnected. I don’t know.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

It was certainly listenable, but not the type of music I’d want to listen to often. I didn’t like the Timbaland-produced tracks, but the rest was okay for 2000s pop music, I guess. I’m not the best judge of pop music from this century.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Dude tried really hard to make an album bigger and better than Thriller, but I don’t think he succeeded. Not bad though (pun intended).

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Very good reworkings of classic country songs. Nice job, Ray.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

Stunning and influential album by a very grumpy dude from Northern Ireland.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Pretty average rock album that is a bit overrated on here. Sorry if I’ve offended anyone who grew up listening to this album.

Being There

Wilco

3/5

It’s good, but a little too long. A good double album that would’ve made a great single disc.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

I’m not sure what to rate this album because I’m not a connoisseur of ambient music, so I’ll give this a three. Nice and mellow, good for playing while you are having a nap.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

This is one of my favourite albums so far that I hadn’t heard before in this project and hands down the best album I have gotten that was released in the last thirty years (at least of the albums I have gotten so far).

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Yes, I know it’s a bit stupid, and KISS are very unpopular with music nerds, but I though that this was alright.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

This is one of the lowest rated albums on this website, and I can certainly see why. I’m not sure how anyone could consider this ‘music’ to be good. It’s about as enjoyable as a colonoscopy.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Damn, Keith Moon may have been the greatest drummer ever. This is a legendary album that doesn’t lag in the middle, contrary to what the most popular review of this album claims. Now I gotta go piss on a monolith.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Not much on this album was up to the level of the tracks that Nico sang on The Velvet Underground and Nico, but I thought that this was okay. Maybe the reason why this has such a low average rating on this site is because some people can’t stand listening to a woman with a thick German accent for 45 minutes?

Moby Grape

4/5

Groovy psychedelic blues from 1967. Funny to see that the most popular keyword for this album is ‘Spotify’, because the complete album is not on streaming for some reason.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Well, I suppose there are worse musicians named Drake, that’s for sure.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

It must have been a great day to be a serial killer in San Quentin that day. I mean, Johnny friggin’ Cash played a concert for them. Those lucky undeserving (BLEEP).

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Not even 50 albums in and I have already gotten both live albums recorded in Japan on this list (the other one being Cheap Trick’s At Budokan). Out of those two albums, I prefer this one because it is more technically impressive and exciting, although some of the songs outstay their welcome (which is kind of expected, because this is a 77 minute album with a mere seven tracks).

Blur

3/5

Overall this was a pretty good album. Some of the production was a bit too bizarre for my tastes, but this album had several enjoyable songs.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

This record has a real bitchin’ vibe.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Hands down the greatest elevator music album of all time! All jokes aside, this is a nice album. Beautiful arrangements and great vocals from the Chairman of the Board. I’ll basically give almost anything from the sixties a good score.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Although it is hard to overlook Randy Newman using the n-word multiple times in the first track, one can’t deny that this is a well made album by the Toy Story dude. I would have given it four stars if it wasn’t controversial to do so.