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Album	You	Global	Diff
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	5	2.55	+2.45
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.19	+1.81
Logical Progression LTJ Bukem	4	2.52	+1.48
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.82	+1.18
Back In Black AC/DC	5	3.85	+1.15
Who's Next The Who	5	3.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Illmatic Nas	1	3.6	-2.6
Woodface Crowded House	1	3.11	-2.11
Sheet Music 10cc	1	2.96	-1.96
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.77	-1.77
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.65	-1.65
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.63	-1.63
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.57	-1.57
Paul Simon Paul Simon	2	3.51	-1.51
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.42	-1.42
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	2	3.37	-1.37

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Who's Next

The Who · 1 likes

5/5

Majestic

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1 likes

4/5

Crazy Horse bringing the rock to Neil Young's folk, the start of a beautiful relationship.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

A tough one for Karaoke...

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

If only he'd been a better swimmer...

The Specials

3/5

Great album from the godfathers of Two Tone - a couple of iconic tracks, Message to you Rudy and Too Much to Young. Ghost Town, later that year was their very best though.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Stunning for a debut album, definitely their best. Captured a moment in time that became Indie Sleaze. #GlasgowBand

Paul Simon

2/5

Not his best work. After the album finished and Spotify moved on to related tracks it improved!

Dire Straits

3/5

Pretty impressive for a debut album. Sultans of Swing is an all time classic.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Superb. Could listen to this all day.

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Brilliant, old school rock at it's very best.

Woodface

Crowded House

1/5

Background music.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Great debut album, I ignored it at the time as I was still in mourning for Nirvana... I should have listened to it at the time!

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Compulsive listening. The late 80s answer to: Too Many Protest Singers, Not Enough Protest Songs

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

5/5

Woof woof woof!

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

I'm sure my mum had this album.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Magnificent! Supermassive guitars.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Loved the funky George Clinton stuff at the beginning.

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

The love child of Serge Gainsbourg and Kraftwerk, the father of Daft Punk. What's not to fall in love with?

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Sublime!

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Glam rock super stars. Gone too soon - wear a seatbelt kids.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

Derivative, generic Britpop.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Nicht wirklich mein fall.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

4/5

Mellow, ambient drum and bass today. Perfect for sticking on in the background while working.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Funkiest guitar this side of Jimi Hendrix

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Is it possible to give 6 stars? Possibly the most perfect album ever, it has become a meme for success. "Just like Rumours, every one a hit".

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Very listenable, but not particularly inspiring.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Majestic

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Lovely, chilled bluesy rock.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

There are two or three icon tracks on there, but not much else to really grip me.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Invented Post-Punk before Punk had really gotten started.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Sharp!

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

It's worth translating the lyrics - there's a depth to them.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

5/5

Drug-addled psychedelic guitar trance, with a side of Jesus.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Who doesn't like a bit of Nu Metal?

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

The definitive collection of East Coast Gansta Rap cliches.

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

A coming of age album, not just for the Clash but for the whole Punk scene.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Original funk and soul - I had never heard this one before. The centrepiece 10 minute long The World is a Ghetto is worth 4 stars on it's own.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

If Tom Waits' ancestors had been transported to Australia...

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Sitar hero!

Vespertine

Björk

2/5

Her earlier output had a bit of an edge, which is missing here. More mature yes, but less entertaining.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

The definition of Grunge. Probably the most important and influential album of the 90s.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Not enough songs about buses.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Drum and Bass, and Sitar!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Merry Xmas, peace and love to everyone. Except Phil Spector, he's on Santa's Naughty List.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

The Icelandic cousins of the Cocteau Twins, happily making up their own dream pop language as they go.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

A surprise 5 star review for me - I'd only heard his later stuff when he became known as the godfather of grunge. Turns out that he was the godfather of folk rock 20 years earlier. I listened to this 4 times in a row today!

Illmatic

Nas

1/5

Didn't do anything for me.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

No Woman, No Cry is the standout track here.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Emmylou had me falling in love with both types of music, country and western.

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Never mind the Magazine.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Polly Jean Harvey telling us how it is.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Disco superstars!

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Kate Bush made a lot of iconic songs, none of which are on this album...

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Indie Sleaze at its finest.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

It's not Exodus...

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Covers and remixes.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Sweet Emotion and Walk this Way are stone cold rock classics, even without Run DMC! Still plenty of bluesy rock on there too.

Elastica

4/5

Half Blondie, half Nirvana makes for a record that was much bigger than the Britpop label it got stuck with.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Lovely, could do with more taxi content.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

I don't think Rikki ever did call back...

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

The title track is a masterpiece, as is Southern Man.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Social commentary with a side order of Salsa.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Funky drummers!

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

The Weight carries this album.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Funky Scottish Reggae, who knew?

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Feels like an album of outtakes from Kid A.

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

I think that I'd prefer it without the autotune.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Simple, unadorned brilliance.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Indie punk disco, yeah?

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Slicin' up eyeballs.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Everyone just wants to have fun!

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

A recording that towers above it's contemporaries to the extent that it becomes the landscape against which everything that came afterwards is set.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Kitchen sink Britpop for the common people.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Psychedelic folk rock, reminded me of the Flaming Lips.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

If They Might be Giants wrote songs for Pavement... ...OK I wrote that before I found out that half of these guys were in Pavement. That just makes it more true!

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

I can't believe that this album is more than 20 years old, and no-one learned the lessons they were preaching.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

The definitive collection of West Coast Gansta Rap cliches.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Crazy Horse bringing the rock to Neil Young's folk, the start of a beautiful relationship.

Sheet Music

10cc

1/5

How is that pronounced?

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

The American Beatle!

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Post punk garage rock.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Early millennial synth pop.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Some Killer, some filler.

Caetano Veloso

2/5

Viva Brasil!

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Old skool!

Blur

4/5

Woo Hoo! Blur accidentally wrote the best UK grunge track ever while trying to distance themselves from the Britpop scene and get back to the raw energy of the band I first saw supporting The Jesus and Mary Chain in '92.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Extraplanetary funk.