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Album	You	Global	Diff
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	5	2.32	+2.68
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.76	+2.24
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.86	+2.14
Leftism Leftfield	5	2.9	+2.1
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	5	3.02	+1.98
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	5	3.11	+1.89
Modern Life Is Rubbish Blur	5	3.13	+1.87
Clube Da Esquina Milton Nascimento	5	3.14	+1.86
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.14	+1.86
Protection Massive Attack	5	3.24	+1.76

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	1	3.44	-2.44
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.31	-2.31
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	1	2.77	-1.77
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.75	-1.75
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	1	2.42	-1.42
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	1	2.39	-1.39
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
#1 Record Big Star	2	3.26	-1.26
Roxy Music Roxy Music	2	3.09	-1.09

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.67
Beatles	2	5
Fleetwood Mac	2	5
Metallica	2	5
Queen	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Pixies	2	5

5-Star Albums (60)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Popular Reviews

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins · 1 likes

4/5

Body count higher than a Quentin Tarentino film.

Van Halen

Van Halen · 1 likes

5/5

Screaming guitars, screaming vocals. Belter.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen · 1 likes

5/5

Smashed this up loud for my morning commute. Listened to Brighton Rock as I drove through Brighton. Perfect.

Among The Living

Anthrax · 1 likes

5/5

My first metal gig was Iron Maiden at Wembley arena and a certain Anthrax were supporting. They absolutely rocked and this was a pivotal day in my enjoyment of music, never looked back and its bands like this that sewed that seed. Cracking album even if the production is a bit thin at times.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Grew on me and understand where Nick Cave got a lot of his influence now.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Great set of 50s 2 minute songs, absolutely brilliant.

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Yes? Yes! Proving that a track less than 8 minute long just isn't worth the bother.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Kept coming back to this album, got better each time.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Loved it, especially the well known tracks.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Ended up listening a few times, really grew on me.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

So many great songs, loved it.

Cypress Hill

4/5

Amazing such a unique sound. Always feels like a few mates getting together to enjoy themselves.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

New album to me, but really enjoyed it. Will listen again.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Body count higher than a Quentin Tarentino film.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The quintessential 5* album against which others are measured!

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

I like Astrud a lot but maybe not her best album!

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Just awful

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

I listened to this while in a room on my own and had to take a cold shower to calm myself down.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Solid 🪨

Metallica

5/5

Solid 🪨

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Ok but quite an odd collection of tracks that doesn't seem that cohesive as an album. A few good classics metal tracks but interspersed with some quite average tracks.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

Not really for me.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Cranked it up and drove around Goring-by-Sea with the windows wound down in my Vauxhall Cavalier SRi. This offered a great opportunity to pretend I was in a real life version of Grand Theft Auto trying to avoid getting a cap in my ass and to not come across one of the many hoes I had wronged. Other than that, some great music, album far too long and could have done without the sex noises creating an awkward moment while I was waiting for an old lady to shuffle across the road at the belisha beacons.

Protection

Massive Attack

5/5

Loved it, super smooth and really enjoyed the variety of vocalists and instrumentals in this. Took me back to being 20 again, and chillin with my mates.

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Tub thumping swamp music. Never really heard them before, but worth listening to twice on the same day.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

I'm a big Who fan and play quite a few of their tracks in my covers band but had never actually listened to this album. I sort of enjoyed this but felt like a massive self indulgence punctuated by a few decent tracks. I've never worked out how they were such an amazing live band, possibly one of that best of all time, but they failed to get that raw brilliance down in much of their studio recordings.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Van Halen

5/5

Screaming guitars, screaming vocals. Belter.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Good songs, but a lot of talking. Not sure this list needs two Johnny Cash prison gigs though.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Funky as.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I've heard OutKast described as Hip Hop for people that don't like Hip Hop and on listening to this, I can sort of hear why. I thought there were some great songs on here and the production level was really high. But.... at over two hours they could afford to pick some winners and put out a more concise and higher quality album. Couldn't quite manage all of it but will probably return and finish it off at the weekend.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

The La's

3/5

It was ok I guess.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Never really got The Smiths. And still don't. The instrumental band is pretty amazing and I hadn't appreciated just how good they are. I find Morrisseys tunes a bit samey and struggle to relate to what he's on about. Maybe will try them again, guess there will be other Smiths albums on the list...

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Never heard of Lucinda Williams before, and enjoyed this enough to have it on a few times.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Sensational! Ability to switch between beautiful ballads and full on swing is amazing and such an amazing level of one take musician ship.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Smashed this up loud for my morning commute. Listened to Brighton Rock as I drove through Brighton. Perfect.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

I loved Metallica in the 90s. I played in an orchestra in the 90s, even toured into Europe. have been meaning to listen to this album for over 25 years. Loved it, enormous in its ambition and execution.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Meh

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Loved the simplicity and beauty of this album. Was a lovely surprise on my commute to work in the dark on a cold winter morning!

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Not really my bag, but appreciate it's beautifully made.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

1* so many clichés 5* they were first to quite a few of those cliches 3* overall

Elvis Presley

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Mind expanding, so much going on in the detail, the grooves, the evolution of tracks. My kind of thing.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Loved it on the whole. The stuff about the pervy old train driver hasn't aged well. Don't think live albums should be on here at all, but guess it's not my list!

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Great fun.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Ok I suppose for that 80s kind of synth pop. think there are better examples out there, but there is some pretty great playing on here all the same.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

5/5

Sound of my teenage years. Loved it.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

All killer no filler.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

1/5

Moany moany morrisey. Never really got the Smiths but appreciate for some they are the most amazing band of all time. Maybe one day someone can help me get there....

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Tracks before Revelations- quite enjoyed, especially Orange Skies **** Revelation- if you have run out of ideas, just stop and call it there. *

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

If I was a football pundit that spoke only in cliches, I would be reaching for 'bang average' after listening to this. Nothing objectively wrong, but never really piqued my interest.

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Been enjoying this album for years, and nice to dust it off again. Fuck the flute haters, sounds great!

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Grew up with this album but have always struggled to relate to it. Some objectively great songs though...

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Loved it.

Woodface

Crowded House

4/5

Nice. Really nice.

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

This guy has issues.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Belter. Loved every minute of it. Dark, edgy, moving, intriguing. Some truly amazing lyrics.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Who knows, can't work out if I love or hate this. Some ok tunes but never felt like it was made with any real passion.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Super cool, loved the vibes, no idea what they were really on about although I know enough French to recognise a few words and keep the intrigue up.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

Had this on a double cassette with Saucerful of Secrets as a teenager and played it to death. Loved hearing something out of this world and it blew my mind. I'm not sure if I heard for the first time now whether I would be as enthusuastic, but top marks for the memories!

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Some great tracks and some average tracks

Roxy Music

2/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Average punk.

1999

Prince

5/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

5/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Disturbing, intriguing and worth a m other listen.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Disturbing, intriguing and worth a m other listen.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

One good hit, a couple of catchy numbers and a load of filler.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

5/5

I'd sort of forgotten about Stereolab, a band beloved to my flatmate in 1999 who played this album back then. Never did much for me. However 27 years later turns out I absolutely love this now and it was lovely to be transported back to a different time in a way only music can!

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Liked this more than I expected. Generally quite simple songs telling tales.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

#1 Record

Big Star

2/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Love the chilled out vibe of this album.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

I had really low expectations for this album by reputation, but really enjoyed it. Just a set solid songs well played. Definitely will be listening to it again.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Normally live White Stripes / Jack White, but couldn't get into this.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Liked this back in the day, but found this a bit dull - plenty of big beat better than this out there.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Too long but loved it all the same.

Leftism

Leftfield

5/5

Absolutely banger

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Got this on a Sunday which is the perfect day to delve into the stories on this amazing album. Adore Jaco Pastorius bass lines that weave in and out of the vocal lines.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Just back to back brilliant songs.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

My mate who has significant musical overlap with me says The Fall are his favourite band. So I've tried them a few times before, but never managed a whole album. And I at I still just don't get it. Maybe the ramblings of a mad man, a work of genius, both or neither - I'm still not sure.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Tres bien

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Not really for me although loved them back in the day

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Punk as

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

An album of any contradictions, from outright blues to more expansive long tracks. 4 for now but may revisit after listening again.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

5/5

It was 1984. I was on the school French exchange. My mate Gary had got hold of some magic mushrooms. After, I returned to my host family who insisted I joined them for a glass of red wine and a selection of cheeses. I retired to bed and had some strange almost fever dreams as I dropped off to sleep. And that is the closest thing I have experienced to relate to this album. 5/5 will listen again.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

4/5

Solid.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Crisp, soulful goodness

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

The incredible dog on a string bamd more like. You can still smell the wood smoke, lentil stew and B.O. wafting through the decades. 2/5. Would have been 1/5 but for the whimsical idea of riding a giraffe backwards.

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Enjoyed. Too long.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Sensational is probably overstating it, but quite an enjoyable blast.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Not a fan of live albums, but would have absolutely loved to have been at this gig.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Amazing. I normally dislike any album this long but loved it all the way through

Adele

3/5

Undeniably a great singer and a well produced album, just not my kind of thing

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

So many great tracks, quite a few of which I'd never heard before. Worth going back to.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

I quite like Hot Chip but not much outstanding about this album really.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Amazing range of songs and surprised how much of this I already knew despite never having played the whole thing before.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Amazing range of songs and surprised how much of this I already knew despite never having played the whole thing before.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

Not for me

The Rolling Stones

5/5

So many great tracks performed so well. Loved it from start to finish.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

As my Gran used to say. Swearing is not big, its not clever and its not funny. By all means pepper your songs with swearing, but when it gets to the point that most your words are that, they lose any impact whatsoever. I felt from beginning to end that this was just dreadful. And what he did to Parliament's P-Funk was a war crime. Most of all, this album was soulless.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

Apart from the out of tune piano, it being a live album and the tuneless way he sings it was shit.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Well made and an interesting album, but probably not something id listen to again.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

Absolutely stunning.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Objectively a great album from a talented singer but one I owned back in the day and always struggled to warm to.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Never really listened to the Stones before this project beyond their really well known hits. Amazing to discover how much I love their albums. This was a high energy better.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Belter

Queen II

Queen

5/5

One of the albums I grew up with, love it.

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Solid. Too long.