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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	5	3.43	+1.57
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	4	2.7	+1.3
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Midnight Ride Paul Revere & The Raiders	1	3	-2
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	2	3.57	-1.57
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.47	-1.47
Melodrama Lorde	2	3.31	-1.31
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	2	3.29	-1.29
Tank Battles Dagmar Krause	1	2.13	-1.13
Nowhere Ride	2	3.01	-1.01
Dog Man Star Suede	2	3	-1

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Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Immensely irritating vocals to ruin a couple of fun instrumentals. The rest is so dull

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Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

So so much fun, exciting and all encompassing. Close to a 5/5, a purely entertaining album

The xx

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

A total masterpiece. Each don't is so bright and full of life, the musicians are feeling it, the crowd is feeling it. The tracklisting is perfectly paced, moving through smooth soft blues to electrifting jazz that feels like you've been hit by lightning, all while never tiring you out. The introductions and crowd noise is the perfect reminder that jazz is best experience live and it does it's best job of trying to put you there in the room. I cannot say enough good things about this album, an all time must listen.

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

A couple of really great and fun songs but suffers from too much samey-ness. I appreciate the DIY vibe of the production and the highlights really shine, but by the time you get to the end of the album it's all a bit bland

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Some nice highlights but unfortunately as a whole the album is a bit boring. Just not my thing, but I can appreciate why it's influential

Infected

The The

3/5

Fun and strange but not much more than that unfortunately

The Specials

4/5

Brilliant album that is fun from start to finish

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

I'm surprised I didn't enjoy this more. For an album with such grand, dense instrumentation and lush production, it often felt like it was going nowhere she saying nothing. Many of the songs felt like I was just waiting for them to end.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

1/5

At first listen I thought this was pretty decent but the more I came back to it the more it bored me. An album of iconic sounds from iconic bands that never meets the quality of what it's copying. The band are absolute masters of saying absolutely nothing with their lyrics. Vague, meaningless rubbish that's so general it's impossible to feel a connection to what's being said. Just because an album is influential, doesn't mean it's good.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Pretty great, not every song is perfect but the best songs are nothing short of incredible

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Don't let the bubbly first song fool you, this album moves effortlessly better getting so boring I could call asleep, to so annoying you'll wish you never started it

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Immensely irritating vocals to ruin a couple of fun instrumentals. The rest is so dull

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

Is it one of the 1001 best albums of all time? No, probably not. Is it bright, fun and catchy as hell? Fuck yes it is!

Dire Straits

4/5

A pretty fantastic debut album with a a clear sound, clean production and good vibes all round

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

2/5

There's a couple of good songs here but the rest just fucking suck

S&M

Metallica

3/5

A very very cool idea let down by muddy production and Metallica's inconsistent discography

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

A couple nice tunes but mostly a boring slog. Most of Lorde's lyrics are so cringe I wanted to crawl out my skin

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Really like the message, really like lots of the instrumentation, but oh my god his voice I can't handle a whole album of it

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

High school prom music for people who skipped all their classes

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Seriously seriously fun. A high 3 and a nice change of pace from recent albums

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

I fucking love this again, it never gets old. I could listen again and again and again

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

I totally get it's influence and popularity, just not for me

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Extra star for Couldn't Love You More the rest of this sucked ass

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

A beautiful voice over instrumentals which are nothing special

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Absolutely brilliant, so close to a 5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Very very high 3, a beautiful album with some stand out tracks

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

Every criticism of Slipknot is correct but I still like them

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Lots of fun but a little too lounge jazz for me

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

It's not bad but a bit dated

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Not for me

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Such a classic

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

I see why people like it but I just find it too boring

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

So boring

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Really really enjoyed it until I realised after 10 songs I was only half way through

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Pretty cool

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Good but not their best

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Fun fun fun! Breezed through this

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

I like it but don't love it

Boston

4/5

lots and lots of fun i loved it

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

I understand the music is good but it didn't impact me much

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Not my kind of thing

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Tooooooooooo lloooonnnnggggggggggg

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

It was alright

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Enjoyed more than I expected to

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Genuinely can't figure out if I really enjoyed it or was really bored?

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Possibly the greatest vocalist of all time?

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Brilliant production and performances can't quite help me get over the fact that I fucking hate Christmas music

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

The vision isn't always there but when it is this album is an absolute masterpiece

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

2/5

This album reminds me of being in uni, piling into someone's bedroom at a house party because the wannabe DJ has brought his USB with the most despicable music you've ever heard. Everyone hoping he stops but nobody brave enough to tell him to. Every so often you walk back into the living room, trying to convince yourself it's getting good now but the rooms still empty. And the worst part of it all? Years later, that guy will be what you remember of the night