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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Renaissance Q-Tip	5	3.24	+1.76
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	5	3.48	+1.52
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Arrival ABBA	5	3.53	+1.47
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Sex Packets Digital Underground	4	2.66	+1.34
Palo Congo Sabu	4	2.7	+1.3
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
Night Life Ray Price	4	2.8	+1.2

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.4	-2.4
Nevermind Nirvana	2	4.37	-2.37
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	1	3.31	-2.31
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	1	3.04	-2.04
Nowhere Ride	1	3.02	-2.02
London Calling The Clash	2	3.96	-1.96
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	1	2.94	-1.94
Very Pet Shop Boys	1	2.94	-1.94
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	1	2.88	-1.88

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David Bowie	4	4.25

5-Star Albums (12)

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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Popular Reviews

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood · 1 likes

1/5

This couldn't be further from a win, and I wood like never to listen again

1-Star Albums (20)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Enjoyed the album, can imagine this playing on a record player as I read a book on a wet afternoon. Definitely something I would be happy to play again.

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Couple of really great songs but too much meh.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Not for me at all, found it kinda dull

Infected

The The

3/5

Really enjoying this, back half of the album is great.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

I thought some of these songs were a lot of fun, some were a bit wank, like that it tried something.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

I feel like this album, listening to the first two songs I thought this is definitely 1 star, but now I'm on my second listen and it's go me questioning things. As I was writing this old Kentucky home came on and it's just so ridiculous it made me smile.Aahhhh

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

This album gave me a lot of nostalgia. A very high 3 but just a few too many songs I wasn't too big a fan of.

Dire Straits

4/5

Cool guitar 🎸

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Too hungover, no.

S&M

Metallica

4/5

My most unexpected 4 stars yet

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Found it really dull

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Love the message and some absolutely great songs on here, I'm off to join a union.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

1/5

Nope

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Enjoyed

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Fun not grwat

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Perfect accompaniment to my rainy train ride home

Nevermind

Nirvana

2/5

Couple of great songs but really did not enjoy the rest, don't shout at me.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Made me feel things, second half of the album especially. Made me create a new Spotify playlist for albums that made me feel, but can't say I enjoy every song so probably the harshest 3 stars yet

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

ÀAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! SCREAMING

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Very enjoyable listen.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Not my favourite album of hers

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

Not for me.

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Boring

Nowhere

Ride

1/5

Being There

Wilco

2/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Boston

4/5

What a song to open the album and did not disappoint after

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Please give us the best of Bowie.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Very cliché, very dull and somehow one of the shortest albums felt the longest

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Jesus this is good.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3 gets 3

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

I mean let's put some respect on this album, fucking great.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Christmas!

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

Feel like I should feel something from these songs but I just don't really feel anything.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

The vibes are really bobbing exactly what you want a Willie Nelson album to be like.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Nope

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

More of a Colorado potato beetle than a stag beetle. Not the best but still a beetle.

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Will someone give me the cure to this sadness

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Very technically impressive but I felt nothing. Almost felt too much like showing off.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Like a delicious biscuit, very digestible but not much nutrition.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

A lot of tunes here that remind me of being younger which is always nice.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

I did enjoy and I am really stuck between 3-4 stars, didn't get time for a second listen so I think I might have to stick with a very high 3.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Kind of like listening to 12 albums in one, so a bit messy but a lot of fun.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Nice to something a little more modern. A little samey for me.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Couple of great, lots of okay.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

1/5

My least favourite album so far, bad song writing and terrible singing.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Really enjoy a lot of this album but some songs are a very uncomfortable listen.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Listened to this 3 times now, so good, love the vocals but the solos are also outstanding!! Dan is the man.

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Just not for me.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Some toe tapping tunes!

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

This is just what I needed!!!

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHtrumpetAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHsaxaphoneAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHjazz.

Debut

Björk

3/5

B: Bloody hell this is pretty good J: Just kidding this is not for me O: Oh actually I'm loving this R: Right this is driving me insane K: kinda questioning everything

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Feel like I'm so close to enjoying a lot of these songs, it's like I have an itch to scratch and these songs are almost doing the job but not quite, very unsatisfying.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Takes me on such a journey, just really immerses me in the album.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

This album made me smile and laugh which was very refreshing. Very pleased I listened to it but not scrapping to go back to it.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

Just not that good.

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

The who? What? Where? Found this disappointingly boring. Never listened to much who and won't be in the future

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Great listen, a lot of fun with some really moving tracks thrown in.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Just didn't gel with the album. Like an awkward first date, the chemistry isn't there, and without the chemistry nothing sexy is going to happen.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

It's just a lot and absolutely nothing all at once.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

FUNky with a capital FUN, this album is so enjoyable, listened to it twice through dancing around doing my chores. Perfect for a Friday morning.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Great album, really great to have something modern on here. No grey area for me, it's clear this is a great album.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Like the sun came out today just for this album. Honestly so lovely listening to this sun coming through my window cooking some scrambled eggs.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

1/5

This couldn't be further from a win, and I wood like never to listen again

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Enjoying more than I thought, especially since ever song is approximately 7 hours long. Can see why people love pink Floyd! Kinda crazy that I've slept on pink Floyd for so long.

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

London calling what a song but I really did get bored of the rest of the album pretty quick.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

Wanted to enjoy this one more

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

This album is just a lot of fun, don't think it will stay with me for ages but definitely happy to listen to multiple times

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Kills me to say this but I really did not enjoy the album.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

1/5

Beep boop, it's crap

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Some of my favourite songs of all time on this album, but I think it's just slightly too long, a few songs that I didn't get along with. But mostly an amazing listen.

Adele

3/5

You know what I do love Adele but this is not my favourite album.

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

I won't lie only listened to a couple of songs and then turned off.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

This album completely drifted into the background for me, nothing particularly special about it. I'm not part of the fanclub and I refuse to jump on the bandwagon.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Great little album, really matched a laid back Saturday vibe, I was hungover. But this worked nicely for my walk in the rain.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

It's a fine listen, just slightly forgettable.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Look just think this album is very dull

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

Like dust this album just kind of sits there not really doing much. Will say screaming trees feels like the wrong name for this band.

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Maybe.Its.Amazing

Foo Fighters

2/5

One of these albums where I know I am wrong but I just did not enjoy.

Common

4/5

Just really love this album, great vibes.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Meh

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

5/5

Can't imagine anything better to listen to in the sunshine, just like a real life q-tip deeply satisfying.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Did I enjoy this? Yes Shall it be remembered? Shall what be remembered?

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

What a sexy album

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Great album, perfect for hiking the Highlands.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Really wanted to enjoy this more.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Nostalgia central, makes me think of the first gig I went to with my dad, kfc on the way, great memories

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Not the right vibe

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

No thank you

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

There are parts I like and parts I found pretty dull, never crazy and never sending me to sleep, false advertising.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

This album is so generic 60s.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

No no no, just not my kinda music and it all just blended into one for me.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

I feel like I'm trying to concentrate on this album but keep drifting away. Also the cover is kinda terrifying.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Just like a hot rat its 3 stars from me.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Better than being down the mines and not as good as other soul albums.

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Imagine one of the Beatles made a solo album, it's easy if you try, but with no talent and nothing to say, imagine all the songs, and just how shit they'd be, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, this albums really shit. Also makes me think of all those celebrities singing it and that annoys me

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Well that was disappointing, really wanted some songs I could dance to

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

Sad and depressing, unsurprisingly

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Oh boy am I excited!! What an album, what a collection of talent as well.

Ramones

3/5

Just last month I was working at the AO arena in Manchester as you can imagine we played this song a lot (blitzkrieg bop), the highlight was blasting it in the van as we entered the arena. Okay though a lot of these songs are nearly exactly the same.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Oh no

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Cut

The Slits

2/5

Very okay

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Big Incredible Guy

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

I love this album!!!!

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Really enjoyed some, enjoyed some less so.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Surprisingly good, really disliked the first track but the rest is really good. Maybe slightly long.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Loving this album

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

What an album

Iron Maiden

1/5

Just not for me man

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Second half of the album definitely better than the first

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

It's okay

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Not quite a waste of time but not far off.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Well that's a lot of fun

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

What a load of rubbish, wish I hadn't named my d&d character Bjork now.

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

Perfect for the sunshine

Germs

1/5

I really enjoyed this... Punked ya I very much did not enjoy

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Enjoyable

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

One of the most boring albums on this.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Couldn't get into it

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

I love this album for so many reasons. Firstly it's just fucking brilliant, I mean just the first few notes of life on mars and changes beat most albums. Incredible. I cannot imagine an album that I would fall in love with as much as this. 5 stars is not enough

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

This album is fun

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Feels like I should like this album but I just didn't.

2112

Rush

2/5

It was at least interesting I suppose

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

I just don't get it. Like it's kind of cool if I was high as a kite dancing my tits off. But I'm high as a worm and my tits are very much attached.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Karaoke the album

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

A lot of fun

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

This album is a lot of fun and very clever.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

Maybe they should do less talking and more singing

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

The blueprint to a decent album, without the nostalgia of listening to it in my youth I cant rate it too highly.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Really thought I wouldn't like this but the first half of the album surprised me. Then it went on, and on and on and on and on and...

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Fuck yeah

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

This kinda came out of nowhere for me. Like I did know a number of the songs on this album but had no idea who they were by. What an absolutely incredible album, perfect summer vibe. Also listened twice without noticing, in the best way.

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

It's okay

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

I like this album a lot but I don't really know whether I love it, doesn't really speak to me.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour