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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tago Mago Can	5	2.79	+2.21
Let England Shake PJ Harvey	5	3.15	+1.85
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
The Idiot Iggy Pop	5	3.21	+1.79
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
xx The xx	5	3.36	+1.64
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.41	+1.59
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
American Beauty Grateful Dead	1	3.24	-2.24
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	1	3.09	-2.09
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.87	-1.87
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.84	-1.84
Whatever Aimee Mann	1	2.82	-1.82
Bad Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	1	2.69	-1.69

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Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals · 1 likes

1/5

A couple of OK songs while the rest sounds like annoying rap on top of the background music of a porn movie from the 70s

Bad

Michael Jackson · 1 likes

2/5

A collection of bland songs (the only one I kind of enjoy is smooth criminal) with an awful production: literally the sound of the 80s in the derogatory sense of the phrase... While the commercial success might be understandable, the critical acclaim will always be a mystery to me.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp · 1 likes

2/5

This album represents the perfect combination of the most annoying aspects of prog rock and 70s pop

1-Star Albums (9)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

I listened to this album too many times as a teenager... I still acknowledge its merit but I can't think of it anymore as music for grown-ups. In particular, they take themeselves so fucking seriously: not a glimpse of irony or detachment here. Especially in your lyrics, Roger. It's still somewhat touching how you talk about Syd but, hey man, let's not forget you kicked him out of the band!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Outstanding, especially for being a country album, one of the most boring genres ever invented by humans. But the story behind it, the fact that he was singing those things in that place, the raw energy of the performance, and how the audience reacted to it and interacted with him make a fucking masterpiece out of it.

Pretenders

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

With the exception of the two obvious songs, soooo boring...

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

This album brings me back to my youth but it is still quite annoying, starting from the famous singles: as many have already noticed Liam Gallagher's singing is a constant whining howl... In comparison Oasis' first album (that I had never bothered to listen to before today) sounds much more enjoyable...

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Simply one of the best debuts (and albums in general) of all time

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

Really unremarkable. I could have happily died without listening to it...

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

Not very inspiring... Often, I don't even get the work of his brother Brian (hailed as a genius by almost everyone), how could I find this album interesting?

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Not the best they did but, hey, it's still Velvet Underground

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I didn't know her and, after reading the presentation, didn't have high expectations but I ended up enjoying this one...

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

A couple of OK songs while the rest sounds like annoying rap on top of the background music of a porn movie from the 70s

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

1/5

Shite

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

My least favourite Police album, enjoyable but not that great.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Masterpiece. I had always focused on Siouxie's voice and McGeoch's guitar, both amazing, but today I was mostly caught by the rythm section, especially the wild percussions (those toms!)

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Beautiful. Never had the chance to listen to a whole Cohen's album. At times repetitive and not really my genre, but 2-3 amazing songs (Avalanche, Famous blue raincoat, Love calls you by your name) alone deserve 4 stars...

Tago Mago

Can

5/5

Classic masterpiece, no-brainer 5 stars. The perfect blend of popular music and experimentation. And Damo Suzuki is one of the most original (craziest) vocalists ever...

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Too long: it gets repetitive and boring in the end. A single album with the first 7-8 songs would have deserved 4 stars...

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Most of it sounds fun but it loses one star because the lyrics are just too silly (how many times they talk about "girlies"?)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

An OK album at times enjoyable but as a debut in, say, 1968 it would have been acceptable but in 1976 it was just lame... Come on, punk was behind the corner, Velvet Underground and Stooges were history, Patti Smith, Ramones, Talking Heads, Television were regularly playing at CBGB (and some had already debuted)

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

I am not a hip-hop fan but I actually enjoyed this one, especially the politically charged lyrics

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Perhaps this is not the most compelling Tom Waits' album but still a great one: great sound, great lyrics, great cover...

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

This album represents the perfect combination of the most annoying aspects of prog rock and 70s pop

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Mostly uninteresting

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

1001 albums generator, why do you keep giving me boring 60s pop albums and not the good stuff of that decade? This one has got one good song while the rest is unintersting. Plus, the band's name is stupid and the album cover is ridicolous...

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Nice songwriting, energy and political lyrics

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

This was a discovery. I had never had the chance to listen to ELO (not even Mr Blue Sky!) and I actually enjoyed it a lot. Most of the songs are a lot of fun and arrangements and orchestration are awesome. Sweet Talkin' Woman and Across the Border (with its mariachi trumpets) are the highlights in my opinion. Certainly a bit too baroque for my taste and quite long but surprisingly never boring!

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Honest R&B, a few nice songs (my favourite is the title track), but honestly there is nothing really memorable here...

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

True, it's awfully long, music and lyrics are shite, and the voice of what-the-fuck-is-his-name is outrageous... but look at the cover art!

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Not impressed, probably just not my genre...

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Again, this project gave me the occasion to listen to an album of an artist I never cared about, and I was positively surprised. This is a pleasant pop album with solid songwriting. While I don't personally get songs like Just the Way You Are (despite being quite celebrated), the upbeat pieces are great.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

I don't get the point of it, like about 90% of hip hop albums...

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

The album of a synth pop act transitioning to (arty) pop with no synth. Good but I still prefer both what they did before and after.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Timely I got this on december 25th, but no matter how talented the artists and fancy the production, christmas songs suck in all epochs and latitudes. If you add that the producer was an abusive piece of shit and later a murderer, how can one give it more than 1 star?

The xx

5/5

Excellent minimalistic synth pop, especially for a debut. Reminds me of Young Marble Giants plus electronica (and 30 years later).

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

This is an honest jazz album and the sound of the hammond is always amazing, but I didn't find spectacular: until the last minute, I was hoping the songs of chickens would suddenly pop up...

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

5/5

Combining the geniuses of Iggy Pop and David Bowie, nothing can go wrong. The album would already deserve five stars only for China Girl (that, with its threatening atmosphere, sounds way better than Bowie's pop version) plus here there are Dum Dum Boys, Sister Midnight, Nighclubbing...

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

I expected to hate this album but I didn't. Admittedly, it is too long and vocals and lyrics are often ridicolous, let alone the album's "concept". (Which is appropriate to a ludicrous clown such as MM.) However, the industrial vibes (I guess to be ascribed to Trent Reznor's production) are not that bad...

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

I am afraid I will never get hip hop, so I was not really impressed by this album but I didn't dislike its jazzy atmosphere...

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

My favourite Patti Smith's work and one of the best albums of all times. As it's been repeatedly pointed out in other comments, does anyone remember an opening line as powerful as "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"? Every song is a poem and there is not a single filler. And of course the music and Patti's voice are terrific: pure raw energy.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

I think that Outside and this one are the only truly convincing Bowie's albums after Let's Dance. For sure it's not particularly original but at least very energetic. My favourite pieces are Valentine's day and You will set the world on fire, which are the most powerful and, not by coincidence, two of the few where Earl Slick plays.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Depressingly beautiful. (Especially knowing what the boy was experiencing in those years and how it ended.) I have always loved this album: song writing, guitar and vocals are just perfect.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

Never heard of it before. Cool stuff.

Boston

3/5

The songs are overall enjoyable but, as for Tom Petty, debutting with this stuff in '76 (and few hundred miles from the CBGB) sounds sooo outadated...

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Let's be clear: I am a big fan of Radiohead and, unlike many others, I started to listen them from Kid A on, so I am quite biased... Kid A was a breakthrough album of a band that was already great, something like Sgt. Pepper, and Amnesiac was concieved and recorded during the same sessions, so it's basically Kid A - Part B... Together they make the best music of the '00s and probably still the best produced in this century.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Not my genre but overall nice. How they use synths is quite impressive for a soul/funk album...

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

1/5

First time I listened to a Grateful Dead's album and, fuck no, you should have let me die without doing that. I can't imagine a single reason why anyone would produce or listen to such boring shit (back then and now). It's just 42 minutes but it felt like 3 hours, I had a hard time getting through it. I was shocked seeing that "Ripple" (one of the blandest and most unimaginative stuff I recently heard) has got almost 100 millions listening on spotify. People, get a life.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

1/5

There is not a single reason why this album should belong to this list. This is neither country nor pop, but something that sucks as much as country and pop do...

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Third shitty country album *in a row*. Third 1-star album in a row... Please give me a break, album generator!

My Generation

The Who

4/5

While I was familiar with the obvious later albums by The Who, I never bothered to listen to this one, thinking it would be "immature" or "raw". Well, it kind of is, but in a good way. The sound is really rough and hard for '65 and, although the production does not really higlight it, Keith Moon's drumming is amazing -- I invite you to check him out in the videos of the concerts of that period: he is insane in every sense. The only negative aspect is Daltrey's vocals: he sings well but he has got no personality, his voice sounds different in every song and his imitation of american accents is quite ridicolous (worse than Mick Jagger's, who, on the other hand, in terms of personality and recognizability had almost no peer). This is also the reason why the James Brown's covers are not reallt convincing...

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Well, it's still (or perhaps should I say "already"?) the Beatles, so the vocals are great and there are some good original songs, but it's definitely not an album I would listen to very often...

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Great voice, sounds, atmosphere. One of the (many) great scottish bands.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

"Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987." This is the irrefutable demonstration that people haven't become stupid because of the internet, or social networks, or smartphones. They have always been. These technologies just made the fact blatant. However, already 40 years ago, the hints were clear enough to those who wanted to see them.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

5/5

My favourite PJ's record, absolute masterpiece. Songwriting, arrangements, vocals: everything is perfect. [Commenters of the kind "Anything making England sound good can fuck off" or "This album makes me proud that the USA seceded from England" are just American losers. Go back listening to your funcking country music, suckers.]

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Don't get it at all. In addition, did she really need to add minutes of tedious chitchat after almost every song? Was it not long enough?