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Album	You	Global	Diff
Debut Björk	5	3.38	+1.62
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.43	+1.57
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.53	+1.47
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.61	+1.39
Triangle The Beau Brummels	4	2.71	+1.29
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
Group Sex Circle Jerks	4	2.75	+1.25
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	4	2.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	1	3.35	-2.35
O.G. Original Gangster Ice T	1	2.97	-1.97
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.63	-1.63
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Suicide Suicide	1	2.46	-1.46
Frank Amy Winehouse	2	3.45	-1.45
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.42	-1.42
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	2	3.32	-1.32
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.31	-1.31

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Idlewild

Everything But The Girl · 1 likes

3/5

Very 80s-sounding adult contemporary. Not bad, but didn't totally grab me.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Gorillaz

3/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Classic

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

The faster songs are pretty great. Slow songs can be a little boring.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

4/5

Faith

George Michael

4/5

Great musicianship and singing, but somewhat juvenile lyrics sometimes, and sometimes uncomfortable lyrics... "Father Figure" and "One More Try" seem to have daddy issues...

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

Boring

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Couple of good songs, but a lot of boring blues...

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Really good, except for the usual filler. Don't know why I didn't listen to this as a teenager.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Some great songs, but a lot of very LONG songs

Garbage

3/5

Good songs, but they sound samey after a while.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Exquisitely recorded. Some good songs. Knopfler sings very Dylan-esque.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Mostly groove based songs, but pretty catchy.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Not my style of music.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Quintessential Joni Mitchell. Not as good as Blue.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

1/5

Kind of remedial raps, with over the top violent lyrics.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Pretty fun, juvenile punk music. Sounds like real punk.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Lots of good songs. vocals mixed pretty low... Good album.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Amazing album, catchy song after catchy song.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

808 State

3/5

Couple of good songs, but EDM is not my favorite.

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Exceptional musicianship, not really my cup of tea though.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Great songs, only rating it a 4 because I know how great the coming albums are.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Bleak and sad diary of a very troubled person. Great voice.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Pretty good album, but a lot of butt-rock too.

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Pretty good, lots of cursive singing. A lot of similar beats from her first album.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Noise garbage

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

ZZ Top, exactly what you expect.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Great soul music. Traditional values vibe.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Some good songs, they got a little samey after a while...? But I did like a lot of it.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Totally psychedelic 60s, complete with sitars and eastern flavors. Sounds a lot like the Beatles.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Randy Newman sounds the same as he always has. Tough themes but good that he's tackling them.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

The peak of butt-rock/hair metal. Not really my style but well done.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Good blues

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Sooo 80s. Only Buffalo Stance was listenable.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

A bit tedious and difficult.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Better than I expected, almost a modern 60s sound.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Heard it a million times.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Willie Nelson does covers. Very pleasant.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Nope, can't get in to the Boss...

Suicide

1/5

Garbage. A guy and his synth, making shitty songs on the fly.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

3 good songs, then a lot of filler.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Good songs, kind of long

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Jazz piano, a bit of funk. Okay.

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Good punk music, sounds typical of 70s punk, but with a splash of Euro-flavor. Lead singer sounds a bit like Nico.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Couple of good songs, I think greater things are coming from the Who.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Not my cup of tea. Definitely country music. But not the worst I've ever heard.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Finishes stronger than it starts. Definitely 60's psychedelia, sometimes sounds like Beatles.

Third

Portishead

4/5

The album gets stronger as it goes. Doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two albums, but very good.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Good stuff, folksy guitar work with very breathy singing. Obviously a huge influence on Belle & Sebastian.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Very beautiful acappela singing. Tough to get in to since I don't understand the lyrics.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Pretty standard electronic music... Maybe ahead of it's time, but not very exciting.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Decent, but there was no way I was listening to 4 records.

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

Somewhat sombre record for Taylor Swift. Songs are as catchy as usual, but the album goes too long in my opinion.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

Only listened to a couple of songs. Straight blues, not that interesting to me.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

More electronic music. Okay.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Lots of bangers, lyrics more mature than the last album.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Great harmonies, kind of folksy.

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Good 60s pay-rock

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Classic. Some really great songs.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Good themes, but gets grating after several songs.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Interesting, but start to sound samey after a while.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Not bad, but following albums are better.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

Very strange. Weird vocal. Couldn't really get in to it.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Kinda funky, not bad.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Pretty good, maybe went on a bit too long.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Classic album, tough to listen to these days with so much misogyny and violence.

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Sometimes interesting, but mostly about sex troubled childhood.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

I’m sure it’s great… but not for me.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Didn't dig it; felt like it was trying to be "edgy".

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Good background music, very synthy 70's style. Could be movie soundtrack.

Debut

Björk

5/5

Great album, but she only gets better from here!

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Actually pretty good old country. All the songs are about heartbreak, but that might be typical.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

Greta album, very poingnant.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Not their best work, a few good songs.

Metallica

3/5

The Metallica album I’m familiar with. Some good songs, but not really my style.

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Fine EDM. Maybe good for background music.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Good early heavy metal, the singer's voice turned me off though.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Songs would have been better without the 80s cheesy production.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Many Incredibles songs, a few kind of very 80s songs that are not super exciting. Overall, great.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Pretty good rock album.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

1/5

Jazz is just not for me...

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Okay, a bit repetitive.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Really good folksy songs.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Some good singing and guitar playing, but the songs didn’t particularly grab me.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Leonard Cohen sounding-ah alternative rock.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Only a couple of listenable songs.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Very typical country music, actually not too bad.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Fiona killing it again. Much more angular album than most of her previous work, seemed to reflect Covid, though I think most of it was written before Covid.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Some silly stuff, but I have a soft spot for ABBA.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Well done music, but not really my style.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Very 80s-sounding adult contemporary. Not bad, but didn't totally grab me.