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Album	You	Global	Diff
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	4	2.9	+1.1

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
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	1	3.1	-2.1
Slayed? Slade	1	2.88	-1.88
Guitar Town Steve Earle	1	2.81	-1.81
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	2	3.46	-1.46
Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Politti	1	2.39	-1.39
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.38	-1.38
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	2	3.14	-1.14
Trio Dolly Parton	2	3.13	-1.13

Popular Reviews

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Awful, cheesy, milquetoast garbage. Even the well known anthems have become annoying instaskips at this point. 1/5

1 likes

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Too funny to be anything less than a 4. Did not age badly just because you said so. 4/5

1 likes

1-Star Albums (6)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Starting off strong. 3.5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

“The Thin White Duke” - pretty funny. 3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

The Who sound pretty great live. 3.5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Production: great. Skits: horrendous. 3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Practically a Greatest Hits for AC/DC. Fun listen. 3.5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

This rips. 4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

This Louis is indeed King Louie from the Jungle Book. Pretty neat. 3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Messy and memorable. 4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Decent, put pretty samey by the end. 3.5/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Utterly insane final track. 3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

A feelgood album. 3.5/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

A tad long and lacking cohesion. An odyssey nonetheless. 3.5/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Decent Britpop. 3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Pretty coooollll. 3.5/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Good britpop. Extra points for album cover going so hard. 4/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Confused by this albums inclusion at all. Pretty forgettable. 2/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

Pretty unremarkable. 2/5

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Twink album cover to lure one in was a clever move. Some interesting stuff happening in here obscured by the rest of the album. 2.5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Decent. Stray Cat Blues is seriously cringe. 3.5/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

The shrieky vocals start to grate by the last third of this album, at least for me anyways. 3.5/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

1/5

I was already not really in the mood to hear an album like this. But what happens around the 12th minute of the second track had me so baffled, I had to end the listening experience right then and there. Yikes. 1/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

A pleasant listening experience, certainly. I had no idea of the controversy surrounding this albums creation until now. Has ‘You Can Call Me Al” on it too. Much to consider. 3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Awful, cheesy, milquetoast garbage. Even the well known anthems have become annoying instaskips at this point. 1/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Was expecting a bit more. 3.5/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Was not expecting to enjoy this at all but was pleasantly surprised. A bit long and samey. 3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Acceptable jazz. 2.5/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Meh. Solid first track. 2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

This has the sauce. 4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

I really didn’t need to listen to a whole album of ZZ Top - that much is certain. 1.5/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Live prog rock stuff. 3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Dreadful. Praying that this the worst inclusion in the list. 0.5/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

Better than the global average would have you believe. 3.5/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Hell yeah. 3.5/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Solid. 3/5

Slayed?

Slade

1/5

Rubbish. 1/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

More Bowie. 3.5/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Pink Floyd’s first album is a bit of a blueprint of what was yet to come. A couple of outright nonsense tracks bring the score down a tad. 3.5/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

I Want To Take You Higher a clear standout. 2.5/3

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Good vibes. 3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Couldn’t help but enjoy this quite a bit. 3.5/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Why is This Album on the List - part #8. 2/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Passable. Don’t know why it’s on the list. 2.5/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

I always thought Santana was the guitarist, not the band. Turns out it’s both. Great album, definitely worth a revisit. 4/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Stoked this made the list. 10/10 album cover. 4/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Smooth. 3.5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Too funny to be anything less than a 4. Did not age badly just because you said so. 4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Close to being the elusive first 5. 4.5/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Decent album offering from a band I thought was more of a Greatest Hits specialist. 3.5/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

21 minutes long. A bad recording that is 90% weighted to one speaker/headphone. Definitely not required listening by any metric. 2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Yep. 4/5

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Being a childhood car trip staple counts for something I guess. 3.5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Hard not to draw a parallel between Television and The Strokes. Not complaining. 4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Killer arrangements. Get this off the list. 0/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Feeling a strong 7 to a light 8 on this one. 4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Idk. 2.5/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Pleasant enough. 3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Sure. 3/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Heatwave. 3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

So much more here than just one, ridiculously overplayed song. Sam’s Town better though, sorry not sorry. 4/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

I have no idea why I listened to the whole thing - but I did. And I’m not really sure why I enjoyed it - but I kind of did. 3.5/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Underrated start to an elite discography. 19-2000 remix might be one of my favourite remixes of all time. 4.5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Doolittle better. 3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Cool. 3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

It’s rock rap so yeah. Idk. 3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

Awwww shucks. 1/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Had zero expectations going into this but was pleasantly surprised. A strong 3.5. 3.5/5