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Album	You	Global	Diff
One World John Martyn	5	2.81	+2.19
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	5	3.08	+1.92
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.31	+1.69
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.47	+1.53
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	4	2.51	+1.49
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.54	+1.46
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	5	3.58	+1.42
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.58	+1.42
Follow The Leader Korn	4	2.65	+1.35

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	1	4.02	-3.02
In Rainbows Radiohead	1	3.86	-2.86
Kid A Radiohead	1	3.7	-2.7
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.67	-2.67
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.48	-2.48
Frank Amy Winehouse	1	3.46	-2.46
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	1	3.45	-2.45
Blunderbuss Jack White	1	3.39	-2.39
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	1	3.3	-2.3
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.11	-2.11

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Artist	Albums	Average
Deep Purple	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	1.33
Amy Winehouse	2	1
Prince	2	1.5

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One World

John Martyn · 1 likes

5/5

Blending Celtic folk with smooth jazz, dub and electronics then adding in a distinctly pop sensibility is the name of the game here. One World sounds ten years ahead of its time and still sounds fresh and interesting. The Trip-Hop/Illbient bands of the 90's owe John Martyn some royalties because the formula for both genres sits here, 15 years before either hit the mainsteam.

1-Star Albums (12)

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Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Sparse, somewhat rambling second track, singing doesn't follow the song's melody. Voice is open, honest and raw. Important album, but unenjoyable.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Kicks off with probably the heaviest and fastest song yet, Speed King and doesn't let up until the third track, Child in Time which is Ian Gillan's finest moment as a vocalist. An all out sonic assault which announced the Mark II lineup's arrival with a declaration of war that defined speed and thrash metal nearly a full decade before either gained steam. Quite simply one of the greatest rock albums in history.

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Coming in between the bluesy rock of The Man who Sold the World and the magnificently overblown rock opera of Ziggy, Hunky Dory is a much more conventional pop album with a much tighter focus on songwriting rather than the showmanship that became a staple of Bowie's later music. Not for nothing did many of the songs on Hunky Dory become staple songs of Bowie's live concerts all the way till the end of his career, there's a raw emotion that radiates from every song and the short nature of the tracks (only three of the eleven on the album go past the four minute mark) means nothing ever lingers long enough to bore the listener. It's probably the most straightforward album Bowie ever wrote and the one that firmly established him as pop rock's vanguard for the rest of the 1970's.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

Varied, clever and skillfully written and thus far more interesting than anything Albarn ever wrote with Blur, this genre-buster marks the start of the most creative alternative rock project of the 21st century. A little uneven (Punk has a whiff of the pop-punk fad of the era) and not quite as polished as later efforts but all of the core components are here. An album very much of its time (was there another time trip-hop was this mainstream?) and worth a listen if you want a look at a route hip-hop and rock could have taken without the rise of Bling and the garage rock revival respectively.

One World

John Martyn

5/5

Da Capo

Love

2/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Tracy Chapman

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

Ambient electronic turn of the millennium trip-hop with a side order of acid jazz. Think Massive Attack with more of a groove. Listening music, not dancing music. You're either going to find it an odd but interesting album or you'll consider it a bunch of aimless guff over a two bar drum loop. Best enjoyed with a good set of headphones and some quality weed.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

1/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

1/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

One of the greatest albums of all time. You're welcome to disagree but if you, you're wrong.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

This is straight up one of the tightest and most groovy soul albums you'll ever hear by absolute royalty of the genre. Yes, the title track is an absolutely monster cut (so much so it gets recycled two tracks later for Mo' Onions) but every cover (nine of the 12 tracks on the album) has all of the band members completely in the pocket. This album has the legendary "Stax sound" in full swing and shows off exactly why these guys were tapped up for just about every blues and soul artist worth a damn in the Memphis scene at the time. If there's a negative, it's that the middle of the album brings the tempo and the energy down to lounge music levels of chill and the kind of stuff your grandparents listened to. Thankfully the energy picks up again in the back third of the album and we head home with a fantastic version of Comin' Home Baby. If you don't like soul music or the blues, you'll hate this album but if you have more than a passing interest in either, this is worth your time.

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SZA

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Germs

2/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

Foo Fighters

1/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

1/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

1/5

Kid A

Radiohead

1/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Os Mutantes

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Music

Madonna

2/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

1/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

Ask one of the indie heads and NME seat sniffers and they'll tell you this is one of the most important and influential albums of all time. Ask a human being and they'll tell you it is the most miserable twaddle this side of The Cure. Me, I'm a human being.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

5/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

1/5

Willingly making your album sound like crap as an artistic statement still makes your album sound like crap.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

The Clash

4/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

1/5

Third

Portishead

2/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

2/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

Listen to an academic on the subject and they'll tell you Korn's debut album "defined Nu Metal". Those people are wrong, this is the album that defined the Nu Metal sound because this is the one that hit the mainstream like a fucking nuclear bomb. Within a year every label was scrambling to sign any band who downtuned their guitar and whined about how girls hate them and their life sucks. So, what do you get for your money here? Honestly, not a whole lot. Freak On a Leash is still an absolute monster, Got The Life is a decent radio friendly single and the rest is either lost in the glut of copycat acts of the time or putrid and childish even by Nu Metal standards. You should hear it because it's a foundational album in heavy metal's last commercial charge before Rap and Electro-pop took over the world. But honestly, it's not even the best album Korn ever wrote.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5