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Album	You	Global	Diff
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.49	+1.51
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
Dummy Portishead	5	3.71	+1.29

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	1	3.99	-2.99
In Utero Nirvana	1	3.83	-2.83
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Rio Duran Duran	1	3.5	-2.5
Aqualung Jethro Tull	1	3.44	-2.44
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.44	-2.44
Stardust Willie Nelson	1	3.39	-2.39
The White Album Beatles	2	4.17	-2.17
Suede Suede	1	3.11	-2.11
Seventh Tree Goldfrapp	1	3.08	-2.08

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Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1 likes

1/5

Bland. A couple of ok songs but nothing special.

1-Star Albums (12)

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Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

2/5

Very early 90s rap.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

An unexpected pleasure.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Wilco complete their transition from alt-country to art rock. Some good songs but overall it leaves me a bit cold.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Bleh.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Biggest hits but not the best Prodigy album; that is Music for the jilted generation. Not really an album band

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

1/5

Stodgy dad rock

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

1/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

1/5

Bland, aural wallpaper. Electronic shoegaze with sub cocteau twins vocals.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

Sweat Loaf and Human Cannonball are good, the rest of the album is a mix of sludge rock and art noise experiement.

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Good. Does not sound like anybody else.

The White Album

Beatles

2/5

Disappointing. I expected to love this record but a lot of it sounds like filler. Part of the problem is the ubiquity of the Beatles, i must have heard every song on here hundreds of times without trying, but part of it is that some of the songs are really not good.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Well machined blue-eyed soul/pop record. Boy Georges voice is excellent, but the material does not support it. Overall bland, except for Church of the Poison Mind 2?

Rio

Duran Duran

1/5

No, just no. Culture Club yesterday and Duran Duran today. How is this in the top 1001 albums? Lightweight 80s pop. There are better New Romantic/synth albums out there.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

MOR rock.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Definitely jazz. A bit like listening to an Austin Powers film. I have no idea if this is good jazz but i quite enjoyed it.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Bland. A couple of ok songs but nothing special.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Fred Neil

2/5

Some good song writing but his voice and the musical arrangements do not work for me.

Rage Against The Machine

1/5

Commodified discontent for suburban punks. I had forgotten how tedious nu-metal was. Incohate rage for the man - 1 star

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

I like the Smiths, I do not like this album. Not sure why this is here ahead of The Smiths or The Queen Is Dead.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

I can see why thus is loved by critics and people in the know, but it has too much whimsy for me.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

I was looking forward to this album but it was a bit underwhelming. Couple ofbgood songs (Only Love... and Southern Man) but few other stand outs.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Efficient machine made pop music.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

1/5

Self indulgent LA muso cosplaying as a sexy person. 1 star sex funk

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Immigrant Song is the blueprint for the album. Killer guitar riffs, pretentious lyrics and no proper ending, it just tapers off. 2 stars ooh yeah, ooh yeah.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

I do not know if this is a good album or not. Mainly it seems to be a chronicle of Georges troubled love life. It is almost a parody of country songs. 2 stars, he has been done wrong.

The Only Ones

2/5

Average album, but gets an extra star for Another Girl, Another Planet.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

A couple of stand our tracks, especially Fame, but the rest tends to the bland.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

This album is the template for British heavy metal. Yowling vocals, pretentious lyrics, chugging guitar riffs with occasional outbreaks of wanky solos. All taken very seriously.

The Stone Roses

5/5

Awesome. 5 stars, adore me.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Pleasant. The good tracks are memorable ( The Boxer, Bridge ..., Cecilia) but the rest sound like the soundtrack to a 1973 movie about an architects failing marriage. 2 stars, la la la

In Utero

Nirvana

1/5

An over correction to the sound that made them famous. The problem is other bands made this type of music earlier and better.

Guero

Beck

2/5

Becomes less interesting the longer it goes on. It sounds very much like a Beck album, not sure why this is included ahead of others.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

2/5

Some memorable songs which you probably already know (Jeepster, Get it on) but the rest is quite forgettable.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

1/5

I know Willie Nelson more from his image than his music so i was looking forward to some Outlaw Country to see if his reputation held up. This album does not do anything for me.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

Dull, formulaic and over long.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Weakest of the 'classic' Bowie albums so far. Jean Genie is still an absolute banger.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Excellent album. Alluring and mysterious vocals set to glacial beats. 5 stars for the theremin.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

Bland, plods when it should soar. What is the point of making anthemic, grandiose music if you have nothing grand to say? It feels like they take the safe option everytime. Middle management music for middle managers

Suede

1/5

This project has given me the chance to listen to genres outside my comfort zone. Country (Dolly Parton - good), prog rock(Jethro Tull - not good). Indie is a genre I am familar with and Suede are a poor example. Beloved by the NME and men with Hoxton fins, but tedious and overblown. You can get away being dramatic if you have the talent (see The Smiths), but a good guitarest on there own cannot carry the weight pretentions of this album

The Specials

3/5

Sometimes an album captures a place and a time perfectly, for better or worse. The Specials sums up the early 80s in Britain for me. The energy and excitement. The vuolence and casual misogyny. Interesting album, but not one i eill be returning to often.

Violent Femmes

5/5

This album should not be as good as it is. It has a xylophone solo. A snotty blast of teen angst. At least i hope it is snot. Frenetic and percussive. Stripped down acoustic punk.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Mid-tempo rockers. Always makes the safe decision. Production has filed off all the rough edges.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Good album, with some excellent tracks (Sledgehammer, Don't Give Up, Big Time, We Do What We Are Told). The album gives me a post-war feel (one truth, one voice, one dream). Second album in a row produced by Daniel Lanois. The previous was U2, which sounded over produced, like all the interesting rough edges & idiosynchonies had been removed. Here the production is much more in the service of the music. Has the most 80s possible bass sound.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Excellent. I wentbinto this knowing nothong about the band or the album. The qlbum rocks along effortlessly.

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

An album to be danced to, not listened to.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Good early Dylan. Surrealist, scene jumbled over guitar.