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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.85	+2.15
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.06	+1.94
Permission to Land The Darkness	5	3.14	+1.86
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	5	3.17	+1.83
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	5	3.24	+1.76
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
On The Beach Neil Young	5	3.46	+1.54
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.48	+1.52
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.54	+1.46
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kid A Radiohead	1	3.71	-2.71
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	1	3.45	-2.45
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	1	3.45	-2.45
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
Risque CHIC	1	3.28	-2.28
1989 Taylor Swift	1	3.26	-2.26
At Budokan Cheap Trick	1	3.1	-2.1
evermore Taylor Swift	1	3.02	-2.02
All That You Can't Leave Behind U2	1	2.98	-1.98
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97

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Artist	Albums	Average
Neil Young	4	5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Johnny Cash	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
Led Zeppelin	3	4.33
Willie Nelson	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	1.5
U2	4	1.5
Taylor Swift	2	1
CHIC	3	1.67

5-Star Albums (30)

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1-Star Albums (22)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

All Ratings

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

I liked it, but wouldn't bother to revisit it. Not really my style.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Starts strong but kind of melts into the background over time.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

eh...

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Not my thing...

Iron Maiden

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

I forgot how good this album was...

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Some good tune can be found here.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Not really my style, but I'm glad I listened to it.

The La's

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

I thought I would hate this, but I can understand the appeal.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

I tried. I'm not going to pretend to like this just to look cultured though.

1989

Taylor Swift

1/5

Made it two songs in. Just can't...

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Pretty unremarkable really...

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Not a 5 for me, and lots of me wants to put it in the middle as a 3, but something pushed it to a 4.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The Band

3/5

Lots of great songs with a fair bit of filler.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Surprised at how much I liked this...

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Nearly a 4, but it doesn't hold up as well as I thought it would.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Nearly went with a 3, but pushed it to a 4. It's quite enjoyable.

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Only a 4 because it's far from the Beatles at their best.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Love the Sonics

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

It's just not very good... there's much better 60's garage and proto-punk out there.

The Only Ones

4/5

Never heard these guys before. I liked it.

Boston

3/5

Pretty generic really.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Not Bowie's best work, but still very good.

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

Not his best, but still 5 starts.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

I wanted to give this a 2 because it's really not for me, but I'm pushing it to a 3. Although it's not my style, something in it made me not hate it, and that's actually a pretty good effort.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

I am not the target audience here...

Joanna Newsom

1/5

Maybe I'm not getting something here, but I can't see the appeal in this music at all.

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

Still not my style. This is better than other artists of a similar style, but it's just not for me.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

While there are some great songs here, the record kind of just melts into the background. I know why it's a great album, and I can hear it, but nothing really grabbed me.

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Going with a 3 here. I like the music, but do we need a 90 minutes about Lynyrd Skynyrd and the politics of the south in the 70's?

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Garbage

3/5

Pretty good, but nothing I'd really come back to.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Fever Ray

2/5

Didn't hate it as much as I thought I would.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Meh. I'm often not interested in super groups that just together for an album or two.

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

While I usually like art rock and things like that, this just goes into the background without much interest.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Why this Husker Du album? They have better work and Warehouse is just too bloody long for this type of music... A generous 3.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

I wish I could get more out of albums like this, but I'm not going to rate this higher just to be more sophisticated.

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

I'm not a fan of a lot of hip-hop, but I quite liked this. I like the more minimal beats. Nothing really stand out though so I'm keeping it at a 3.

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

I just don't get Talking Heads. I try because they're one of those bands you're supposed to like, and I just can't do it.

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Eh...

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

So boring...

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Middle of the road rating for a middle of the road album.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

4/5

Surprisingly good.

Kid A

Radiohead

1/5

Seriously, what am I missing about Radiohead? I can't understand how anyone listens to this...

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Not for me.

Risque

CHIC

1/5

Very repetitive. "Good Times" is okay, but pretty standard disco.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

Never understood the Talking Heads and this is just David Byrne going even further.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

This is getting a generous 3 because of the influence. The Stones have much better and more creative work.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

1/5

Nah. I don't mind Cheap Trick (although not a real fan either), but the quality of the recording wasn't very good and the sound of the crowd was annoying. I don't get the point of this album.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

I'm not the biggest fan of funk, but this was pretty good. Easy 4.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Nearly a 5. When it hits, it hits well, but the few songs that aren't bangers really drag it down.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

I like a fair amount of heavy music, but generally not Nu Metal. I actually liked this, but will probably not come back to it.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

I enjoyed the first half, but it started to meander too much in the second half.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

OK, but forgettable. I've heard Jane's Addiction before and never really cared. Still don't.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Some very very good songs here, but when they try to branch out from the formula they fail. Otherwise this would have been an easy 5.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Not Elvis at his best. Feels over produced.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

I don't really know about this type of music to make an assessment.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

3/5

I'm surprised I didn't hate this... It does tend to blend into the background though, which I think may have been the point. But I'm not likely to come back to this album.

The Coral

2/5

Pretty ordinary honestly

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Quite good, but feels like there's a bit of filler in there. The album doesn't need to be this long.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

5/5

It's just full of bangers...

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

I found this music boring and uninspiring when it was first popular and still do.

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Nearly only gave it a 4, but yeah, it's too good so it's a 5.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

A very generous 3. The music is good, the production is good, but at the end of the day, it's the score to a film.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Pleasantly surprised here, even though the style wasn't really for me.

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

Pretty bland, honestly. I'm assuming these guys were so influential to the point that they sound stereotypical of their own sound, but I still don't dig it.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Classic.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

1/5

Suzanne Vega

2/5

I find music like this kind of boring. Couldn't get into it.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

I like country music, but generally not popular country. But Dolly is a treasure.

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

2/5

Just confirming my thoughts that I find Van Morrison boring.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

A bit of a reluctant 4. I've nearly gone with a 3 because I feel like there's a lot in this album that feels like filler, but the general vibe is good enough for a 4.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

5/5

X-Ray Spex are possibly my favourite punk band.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Floyd got better later.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Some good songs, but as usual Clapton has a couple good tracks and the rest is forgettable.

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

The Clash

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Metallica

2/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

The Specials

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Cut

The Slits

1/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

1/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

I like this kind of music and I like the Allman Brothers, but I don't need a 23 minute rendition of Whipping Post...

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

It's a Christmas album...

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Great album.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

1/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

No direction, kind of lame really.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

What was that?

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

5/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

1/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

The Stooges

3/5

This should be an easy 4, but a third of the album is a 10 minute song... lots of good, but plenty of filler for such a short album.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Underwhelming. I'm never a big fan of live albums.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

Never heard of these guys before. Quite liked it.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Not Waits' best, but pretty damn good.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

I didn't hate this one, unlike other radio head albums.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Third

Portishead

2/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Not my thing.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Surprised at how much I liked this

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

I wish I could give this a 4, but beyond the obvious hit, it's a bit repetitive and really only has Aretha's voice holding it up.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

I forgot how good this album is...

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

The album deserves a 3, +2 for Beatles, -1 for being the Beatles not at their best. That equals 4.

The Doors

4/5

Gonna go with a 4. There's some very good music here, but it all feels like it's trying too hard.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

I wanna give this a 3, but it's a 4.

808 State

3/5

Pleasantly surprised...

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

It's a good album but it kind of just melts into the background.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

At the time of writing, this is the lowest rated album on here. "How bad could it be?" I thought. It was that bad.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

I should like the Byrds more but I don't.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

No as good as Apocalypse 91, but still quite good.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Almost a 5, but not quite...

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

I didn't mind this too much, but wouldn't revisit it again.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Didn't get it. Not your typical beach boys. Give us at least one song with a beat.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

1/5

Very very very not for me.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

It doesn't really feel like a Whote Stripes album but it's a good album.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Killing Joke

3/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

1/5

Didn't like this one but. They seemed to be trying too hard to be clever.