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Album	You	Global	Diff
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	5	3.44	+1.56
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.67	+1.33
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.77	+1.23
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	4	2.94	+1.06

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Paranoid Black Sabbath	1	4.2	-3.2
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.76	-2.76
Master Of Puppets Metallica	1	3.73	-2.73
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.41	-2.41
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	1	3.4	-2.4
2112 Rush	1	3.39	-2.39
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	1	3.15	-2.15
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	1	3.14	-2.14

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Can

2/5

Can’t

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The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

1/5

Should be an option for zero stars. So interesting to me that so many rate this so highly. Different strokes.

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Big swings. Too many misses. Feels dated.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

It’s nice. For me it lacks something. Soul? Commitment? Emotion? Cmon guys. Look up from your shoes and make eye contact

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Some really nice melodies here for me were spoiled by the overblown contrived space age production. Synths sound dated. Just listen to David Bowie instead.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

1/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

1/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

She’s got the voice, she’s got the band. I’ve got the boots, I’ve got the hat. But I can’t get all the way there.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

1/5

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

1/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

1/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

I still love Grace Slick’s voice, but, the acid has worn off, the songs sound dated

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Shhh, don’t tell, but I kinda like The Monkees. However, there’s very little on this loooong album that I like. Self indulgent and dated.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

1/5

No soul

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

I must say I tapped my toe, but never put it on. 2.5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

The hit still hits, the rest still misses. 2.5

Achtung Baby

4/5

I dismissed it in the day, I guess because it wasn’t Joshua Tree. But just now I gave a serious listen, and I get it.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Great sound. Love Morrison’s voice, Manzarek’s organ, Krueger’s guitar. For me, the downfall is songwriting. The breaks sound clunky and contrived. Just give me a hooky chorus.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Wow. I loved listening to this. Great sound, great songs. 4.5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

My fave Zeppelin album then, I find it stands up now.

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

The Specials

3/5

Somewhat special

Drunk

Thundercat

1/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Le Tigre

2/5

The Band

3/5

Respect gets it to three. Not my jam.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Like opera, I recognize it as brilliant but it’s not to my taste

Future Days

Can

2/5

Can’t

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Wrongo

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Great beats, great sound, many songs surprisingly musical. The lyrics, however, while undeniably clever at times, are frequently misogynistic, egotistical, often clumsy and way too in my face in the production. Ya I know. It’s rap. I’m trying. 3.5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

Wake me up when it’s over

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Jazzy, great rhythms, smart lyrics. This artist wasn’t on my radar at all!

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

Too pretty

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Love Sam Cooke. Don’t love the live sound in this recording, and all the jivey intros. 3.5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Some good songs, some nice harmonies, but I’d sooner watch paint dry

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

So many great songs. Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar and Stevie Nicks vocals are sooo good. Probably as close to a perfect album as you can get. But I’ve never really liked it that much.

Guero

Beck

4/5

Love Beck, this is my favourite flavour of Beck. 4.5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Some of it sounds a bit dated, but the hits still hit.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

White guys play the blues, technically well, lacking soul?

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

It is something. It is more shoegaze.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

For me, ELP has not aged well. And this was never my fave ELP album.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

No bloody way

Fleet Foxes

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

I love this guy, but this is not his best album. Groundbreaking I guess, but indulgent. Not a good listen.

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

Different strokes

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Barely 3. Not my favourite Wico

Wild Gift

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Voice, 1. But the songs are undeniable.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Good songs, like the instrumentation, guy’s music kinda grates

Paul Simon

4/5

One of the best songwriters ever. And he can sing.

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

2112

Rush

1/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

1/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Loved it then, love it more now.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

I like me some funk, but this sounds dated

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Aims for soul, some hits. A surprise!

White Denim

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

I’m horribly conflicted. Prince is amazing, a 5 for sure. But I really don’t like a lot of the songs. Lyrics are sticky, synth sounds feel dated, production is hyperbolic. So 3, I guess.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

I prefer music

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Seriously?