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Album	You	Global	Diff
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.51	+1.49
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.55	+1.45
Abraxas Santana	5	3.72	+1.28
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	4	2.93	+1.07
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.5	-2.5
Under Construction Missy Elliott	1	3.15	-2.15
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	2	3.72	-1.72
Stankonia OutKast	2	3.55	-1.55
My Generation The Who	2	3.42	-1.42
Mama's Gun Erykah Badu	2	3.25	-1.25
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	2	3.03	-1.03
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Nick Cave: "I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers." Did I expect to enjoy this? No. Did I go in with preconceived expectations? Yes. I just don't get what people see in the RHCP. It's like someone took an annoying high school white boy funk band and decided what they really needed was a super-whiny singer. I thought Give It Away was about a bad a song as they could make... But then the next song was even worse!

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The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Hasn't aged all that well, but some great tunes. Might have given it 5 stars except for the terrible first song "Invaders."

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Hasn't aged at all well. A mix of silly pop songs and white boys trying to sing the blues.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Really liked this. Didn't know much about the Cure before but found it really interesting and atmospheric.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

2/5

Decent pop singer songwriter stuff. Not really my thing but some huge hits. Would have given it a neutral 3 stars except that her whiny nasal voice really started to grate by the end!

Play

Moby

4/5

Electronica for middle aged middle class White people, but some super catchy tunes in the first half of the album. Gets a bit generic ambient towards the end.

Metallica

4/5

The point at which Metallica shift from a metal band to a stadium rock band? Some great songs (that have been overplayed to death) and some filler. Metallica lyrics are always pretty stupid but here it seems like they're trying to be deep but failing massively.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

1/5

I tried to give it my best shot but I just really didn't enjoy this at all. I'm sure at the time a woman singing about being empowered sexually was unusual and ground-breaking...but the music did nothing for me.

California

American Music Club

3/5

Had never heard of this band... Heard that it was Americana which sounds like something I would like. In the end it was decent but it didn't really grab me.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Hadn't listened to this in ages. Forgot just how good it was. Great proggy rock.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

2/5

Didn't really get into this at all. Quite background-y. Maybe if I knew more about hip-hop I would be more impressed?

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

I'd never really listened to Patti Smith before but I liked this a lot. A little punky, a little Doors-y.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Some interesting stuff but a lot of funk-disco jams. Kind of liked it but it didn't grab me.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

I enjoyed this. It was some fun kind of pop rock and roll. I don't really understand why it's in the 1001 albums list though? Was tossing up between 3 and 4 stars but gave it 4 because I really liked Watching The Defectives.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Hasn't aged that well but I suspect inspired a lot of 80s hair metal. Some great cheesy tunes.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

I really liked this. Poignant and sad in places but really good.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Probably quite influential on all the garage rock bands of the noughties but I didn't find it all that exciting.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Some great songs in amongst a bloated concept album that probably isn't quite as clever as Pink Floyd think it is. Gave it 4 for the classic songs but someone really should have had a word.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Well this was very country. The older I get the more I like folksy/country music. This was a bit twangy yee-haw for me but I didn't hate it. I was surprised it was as recent as 1965.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

I'd heard of Adam and the Ants before but never actually heard them. Not what I was expecting but also not very exciting. Kind of standard 80s glam rock/new wave?

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

I was really excited when I saw this come up as I've never listened to much Aretha Franklin but I was kind of disappointed. Her voice is amazing but the songs never grabbed me and her version of Drown In My Own Tears was kind of meh.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

I've never listened to this album, but I liked it a lot. Almost gave it 5 stars. I didn't think the "hit" songs on this were as good as their best but a consistently enjoyable album.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

I liked this a lot but didn't love it - very short and a little too background-y in places.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Bluesy rock is a genre I normally really like but this didn't really grab me.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Didn't love this on a first listen but it kind of grew on me. Was tossing up between 3 and 4 stars.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Not quite a 5 for me. Some great songs (I'm on Fire, Dancing in the Dark) but also a lot of fine but not exciting pop-rock filler (Darlington County, Working on the Highway).

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

I liked the song Aqualung in all its creepy glory, but the rest of the album was a bit samey/generic folk rock to me. Cool flute-ness but nothing really caught me.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

A few great songs and a few that drag a bit. I really liked Sin City and their version of Do Right Woman.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

I loved the title track and I enjoyed the one about the steam train. I really wanted to like the rest but I just never really got into it.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

I think a later poppier MSP CD might have been my first ever album. Interesting to listen to their punkier stuff. I liked a few songs but found most of it wasn't very catchy.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

I haven't listened to this for ages but what a weird concept and what a cool album. June Carter's voice on Jackson is really something else!

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Some interesting pop-blues-rock. I really liked 4 or 5 of the tracks and then some of the others were pretty meh.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

I really like this album. Bluesy proggy rock but with a Latin twist. Great cover of Black Magic Woman and I really like Oye Como Va and Samba Pa Ti.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Tossing up between a 3 and 4 but probably just a 4 from me. Some cool sounds and tunes and I like the singer's voice a lot. Some filler too.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

You can definitely see where they were going with this but I didn't find anything as good as later CSN/Neil Young songs.

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Meh, sounded like pretty generic hip-hop. Wasn't a fan.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Basic bitch pop rock but very well done, some very good songs. Given how good their best songs are it baffles me how much complete dross U2 have put out.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Generic clubby dance music. Maybe this is wildly significant and important but if it is, it's lost on me! Some nostalgia but mostly just kind of annoying. Would have been better without the obnoxious auto-tune.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

I really liked the vibe of the first few songs when I listened - a bit Beck meets Bill Callaghan. Ended up quite liking it, but even after a couple of listens nothing really grabbed me.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

I have Joy Division's other album on CD but had never heard most of this. I really liked it. Not always the easiest thing to listen to, but interesting and different.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

I liked this album quite a lot and was tossing up giving it 5 stars. In the end I didn't think there quite enough killer songs for 5.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

I like the style of music and I like a lot of the songs...but for some reason I wasn't a massive fan of these versions of these songs. Didn't love the singer's voice and a lot of the songs felt quite slow and laboured.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

I didn't love her voice which I found quite nasally. None of the songs really caught my attention. Basically I didn't really like it, although I thought some of the backing music was quite cool.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

I liked bits of this, but other bits drifted. I've listened to another Jane's Addiction album which seemed a bit more focused.

The xx

4/5

I thought I really liked this album but actually when I listened to it this time I didn't love it quite as much. Still very good though!

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Liked the first couple of songs a lot but nothing after that really grabbed me.

Paul Simon

5/5

I really liked this. More than I expected to. Nice to go back to a 30- something minute album rather than 1 hour +.

Germs

2/5

Meh, pretty generic punk. I guess this was influential in some way? Didn't love it.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

What if we take all the genres of music we know about and put them on one album?! Not what I was expecting at all. I quite liked it but nothing really grabbed me.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

A weird hodge podge of not very interesting songs. I thought I would like this. I didn't.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

When I was 14 or 15 I was considering buying this album on CD. My friend Ben told me that I shouldn't because it was "rich white boys singing about how angry they are that their parents wouldn't give them enough pocket money." So I didn't. I was expecting to hate this, but I didn't. Not a great album by any means, but some fun songs.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

I quite like Bob Marley but I found this album a bit meh. This version of No Woman No Cry is nowhere near as good as the live one.

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

My sister had this on CD when I was 13 or so. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I actually enjoyed this. I don't know that I've listened to it for 20+ years. Coldplay, but better, before Coldplay existed? 3 stars for the music, plus 1 for nostalgia value.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Some good songs, a great song (7 o clock news) and quite a lot of filler. The Bob Dylan pastiche is kind of terrible. Generally I thought this was good but a bit too twee in places.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Controversial opinion but I don't really like Any Winehouse's voice. I get this album was huge and influential but meh.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Tossing up between 3 and 4. I really like Walk on the Wild Side, and I really like Lou Reed's voice, but I felt like a lot of this album could basically be some Velvet Underground b-sides.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

This was really fun! Jazzy rock and rolly weirdness. I liked it.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Tossing up between 2 and 3 stars. Electropop without any catchy tunes. Meh.

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

I liked this, fun bluesy-guitar stuff. Kind of weird hearing Rod Stewart singing, but not the lead.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

I really liked some of this. Some of the songs about whiskey and the bottle were a bit too country even for me, but I really like her voice.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

I really liked aspects of this, much more than I expected to. Good tunes, cool samples - the only bit I didn't like was their very whiny voices. 3.5 stars.