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Album	You	Global	Diff
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	5	2.68	+2.32
The Last Of The True Believers Nanci Griffith	5	2.96	+2.04
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.28	+1.72
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	5	3.39	+1.61
Arrival ABBA	5	3.52	+1.48
Stankonia OutKast	5	3.55	+1.45
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.57	+1.43
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.08	-2.08
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	1	2.84	-1.84
Vulnicura Björk	1	2.79	-1.79
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	2	3.62	-1.62
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.62	-1.62
The Wildest! Louis Prima	2	3.52	-1.52
Shleep Robert Wyatt	1	2.51	-1.51
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	2	3.43	-1.43

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	4.67

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Miles Davis	5, 2

5-Star Albums (19)

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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest · 1 likes

5/5

Can he kick it? Yes he can! Great sound, unique samples and timeless tracks that still hold up

1-Star Albums (6)

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Metallica

5/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Every track has great loops and beats but they ultimately suffer from the same fatal flaw: they repeat too much for too long Still, for its time, the production value is great and the sound must have been mesmerizing. This album also played a special role in my teenage years (a decade after it was released) so I’m willing to forgive some flaws.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

I got you babe tickled me, and there were some sick guitar riffs. Maybe controversial in the day but seems like a parody now. Funny how you can never tell how something will age

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

An elegant sound for a more civilized age

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Great instrumentalists, I’m just not a fan of the screaming. A couple gems buried in there though

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The Band

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Beep beep. Beep beep. Yeah

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

For a whole album of covers, at least one of them should be better than just “ok”

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

The 808 drum machine has become so pervasive a more recently in a highly processed/edited manner, that it feels jarring to hear it so unironically embraced in its naked un-edited original form. Not terrible, but it doesn’t feel as original and groundbreaking as it might have 40 years ago

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Bloody alright I like to imagine an adult Gene Belcher rocking out on the keyboard for most of these songs.

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Can he kick it? Yes he can! Great sound, unique samples and timeless tracks that still hold up

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Style and volume over substance

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

- You just, like, don’t get it man - K

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

It’s no Fat of the Land I really like Voodoo People though

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Wat

The Cars

4/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

Lance Armstrong’s ex released an album? Who knew?

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

4 minutes of lyrics repeated to make 42 minutes of album.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

I wanted to give Bowie the benefit of the doubt, but none of this felt special to me. Not terrible, but it just didn’t resonate

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Seeealand

Tical

Method Man

2/5

Is All I Need the greatest love song of the 90s? — I think neither the lyrics nor the production really stand out to me here

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Lots of bangers on here. It feels like it has the vibes of a hyper-produced electronic pop song, but you know they’re just jamming. === Special callouts for Cholly and Maggot Brain

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Van Halen

4/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

More bluesy than I would have thought given their later albums. Still, the seeds are there, and Robert Plant sounds awesome as ever

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

One star for the line “boom boom pachyderm.” Two stars for the rest

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

I really appreciated the variety of styles and sounds. Oh, Susannah in particular was a treat. Something about a classic song everyone knows really lets the artist shine through

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

We bop

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

I thought I was a fool for no one Ooh baby, I’m a fool for Muse

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

+1 point for fever

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

The last few songs do some real heavy lifting to shore up an otherwise unremarkable album. Suspiciously minds in particular was great

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

They stomp-clapped so the Lumineers could hey

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

2/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Decent music, but a soundtrack without a film doesn’t really pack the same emotional punch

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Common

3/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

A fitting origin for Slim and Stan. The extended edition also features a bizarre song from the Wild Wild West soundtrack I hadn’t heard before

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Great to hear an up and coming Dre on this classic Snoop album. Also a decent cover of the classic Ben Folds song

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Bert Jansch

2/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Ramones

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Play

Moby

3/5

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

They say a computer can make music better than OutKast can damn do it Motherfuckers! (Break!)

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

I think I forgot about this album before it was even over

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

5/5

Never before or since have the first three notes of an album hit so hard. And the saccharine hits just keep flowing. It’s a classic for good reason

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

1/5

Almost every song would be better as an instrumental

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Very generic 80s synth pop. Not my jam

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Did not hold up as much as I would have liked. One bonus star for the refreshingly optimistic “Wake Up”

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Message in a bottle is an all-timer, but the rest kind of blended together for me

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

Surprisingly eclectic musically!

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

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