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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	5	3.45	+1.55
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.63	+1.37
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	4	2.72	+1.28
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	4	2.75	+1.25

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.72	-1.72
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.61	-1.61
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.58	-1.58
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.49	-1.49
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.48	-1.48
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.45	-1.45
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.43	-1.43

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Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Books/websites need to stop promoting this man. If you grew up with him and have a nostalgic or emotional connection to his music then crack on. The rest of us need to move past him. Disco/soul/pop has better icons who didn't abuse minors

1 likes

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Post punk will struggle on these lists. This album sounds completely whack when it is out of context, but at the time hearing something as raw as this to counter what was being released must have been refreshing. But it was a difficult listen

1 likes

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

This is how pop should sound, euphoric and emotional. Let down by a few duds in the middle but the hits so huge

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Bad start taking the biscuit out of NIN, and it got worse! It's fun and maybe would've been more fun in 2000

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Great album, I imagine a stunner for avid The Who fans. As a hobbiest, didn't blow me away

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The greatest songwriter of all time with a stunning final album. Would be a 5 but need to save that for SOLAH

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Good fun, not my cup of tea

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

He was good wasn't he

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

This is the second time I've ever listened to a Beatles album, which frankly is an embarrassingly low number for me and because of that I think The White album was a difficult place to kick off my Beatles journey. Mainly because the album sounds like a compilation album, it's a complete mess, it's twice as long as it should be and you could cut at least 40% of the tracks. It would be excusable if there was a through line throughout the tracks but they're all over the place. Do Helter Skelter and Blackbird need to be on the same record? (I know, I know, it's two different discs but it's still one album). That being said, the highs are phenomenally high. Dear Prudence, Julia, Cry Baby Cry and as already mentioned, Blackbird and Helter Skelter, are some of the most influential and best written songs ever there's no denying that and I think that is what gets it the plaudits. But if you are thinking of an album as a singular piece of work, not just 30(!) tracks it's just not doing it for me the same way it does for others. It feels like the emotion and feelings in the songs gets lost amongst some filler. I believe one day I will be a true Beatles fan and I read this back the same way you would read back a year 9 Facebook status but that day hasn't come yet. I assume Will will find this at some point so shout out to him, please don't take it too personally.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Good stuff. Bowie influence is distracting, I do prefer Pop's more unique style in the later works

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

RIP Keith Flint

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

My new favourite Stones album!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

It's not my bag

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Important but not incredible as an album 60 years on

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

If this has sold 800'000 copies at £30 (accounting for inflation) that means £2.2 million has been spent on listening to people talk about the band or the songs instead of the band actually playing the songs

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Dance music and house music would not be the same without this

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

What a masterpiece, the aggression and emotion are perfectly balanced

Fever Ray

3/5

I like fever Ray, they make good music, but I always feel like there is something missing that doesn't pull me in so much

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

This is a great album. I think the hysteria around Brit Pop clouds some opinions of some great music around that time. Saying that you can hear the Oasis influence slightly too much at parts

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

I find some of these difficult to rate. Clearly this is a fantastic album and deserves to be on this list. But I am so far removed from New York hip hop culture in the 80s that I can't really relate

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Definitely better than her solo album. Can't say I was expecting Janice Joplin to be the first artist I have two albums from

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Top 5 most influential albums ever made

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

Modern life is rubbish is rubbish

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

It's just a guitar

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

This is one of the best stripped back live sessions recorded. But I do believe that the lore around it has inflated its quality slightly. I like the idea of one of the biggest bands in the world doing a show for the biggest tv channel in the world and not playing any of their hits and instead doing covers

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Roxy Music

3/5

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

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Misogynistic man raps really quickly over Dr Dre's peak

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

John Prine

4/5

The xx

3/5

Really happy to see this on the list. It hearing this in 2009 changed the way I listen to music. Still sounds fresh 16 years later. But is somewhat inferior to this mammoth list

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

New York Dolls

2/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

This album changed what hip could be and they did it in a way that changed hip hop and music forever

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

This is how pop should sound, euphoric and emotional. Let down by a few duds in the middle but the hits so huge

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Feels like an album was made because he wrote the single Imagine and needed to bulk it out. Forgettable and in need of a lot more influence when writing, something his previous three bandmates could've helped with.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Unfortunately all of these songs are better performed on Stop Making Sense

Garbage

3/5

It's fun

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

One of those albums which doesn't fit into the 5 star rating system. It's crazy but also whack at points

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Uninspiring house music which piggy backed off the French house wave. Dance music has so much more to offer and so many interesting branches that could have been in place of this album

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Merry Christmas

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Concept albums are fun until you don't pay attention for a couple of songs and then who knows what is happening. Will definitely revisit and I can see a higher score coming

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

The only brit pop album which doesn't sound like shite

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Perfect folk rock

Paranoid