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Album	You	Global	Diff
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	5	2.55	+2.45
#1 Record Big Star	5	3.26	+1.74
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	3.81	+1.19
Back In Black AC/DC	5	3.84	+1.16
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	4	2.89	+1.11
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.95	+1.05
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Illmatic Nas	1	3.6	-2.6
Woodface Crowded House	1	3.11	-2.11
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
Sheet Music 10cc	1	2.95	-1.95
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.77	-1.77
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	1	2.69	-1.69
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	2	3.67	-1.67
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.66	-1.66
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.64	-1.64
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.62	-1.62

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Who's Next

The Who · 1 likes

4/5

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.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals · 1 likes

3/5

The Welsh Teenage Fan Club!

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods · 1 likes

2/5

Those Swiss guys sound really angry about something!

1-Star Albums (7)

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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

4/5

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

4/5

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.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

According to the man himself this was "the work of a lazy, self-indulgent man". I can't disagree. The Next cover has neither the depth of the original Jacques Brel version, nor the flamboyant theatricality of the Sensation Alex Harvey Band's rendition. His later work e.g. The Old Man's Back Again and The Electrician had some social and political teeth, this cover seems like a missed opportunity, or maybe it was just too subtle for me.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Roxy Music were a different band on those first two albums, more Eno and less Ferry, which sounds like a good thing... but I don't think the band was big enough for both of them.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Alternative hip hop at it's best.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Surely the most requested live song of all time? FREE BIRD!

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

I'd completely forgotten about this band - they were right there along with Pavement and Dinosaur Jr as the mellower end of grunge evolved.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

Who knew that Finlay Quaye's nephew was that dude from Massive Attack? Loved Black Steel when I heard it on one of the NME Single of the week compilation CDs. There was a bit of biting that Isaac Hayes sample from Portishead though...

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Gone far too young.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Miles goes electric!

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

Santana meets Black Eyed Peas meets the Beastie Boys! ¿Donde esta la after-party?

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Utterly sublime.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

My least favourite artist of the 90s.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Fairly bland, sounded like an album of 70s TV theme tunes.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

The Welsh Teenage Fan Club!

The Cars

3/5

A bit if early new wave, just what I needed!

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Afro cuban jazz, what's not to like?

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

2nd day in a row of Latin jazz.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Hugely influential and prolifically successful. Sounds great and still fresh 20+ years later. This was a real kick to what was becoming a tame indie (landfill) scene.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

21st Century Country girl.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Wonderful songwriting.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

Continuing a long line of civil right protest music into the 2020s and the BLM movement. Start A Universal Love Trend!

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Meh

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

A true masterpiece, some of the best songs written and performed in history.

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

I preferred the later stuff.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Gin and juice is a classic combination.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Luring disco dollys to a life of vice!

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

Psychedelic funk and more again!

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

I do like a bit of Brazilian death metal.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

The American Teenage Fanclub!

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Masterful blues rock.

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

"one of the most pretentious albums ever released"

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Rough and raw compared to later work, but listening to Beastie Boys albums is literally listening to them grow and mature. This first album is pure youth and energy!

#1 Record

Big Star

5/5

Teenage Fanclub are one of my very favourite bands of all time. Teenage Fanclub are basically a Big Star tribute act - hence 5 stars for the OG.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

A gift for womankind... hasn't aged well. The musical equivalent of the saucy postcards they sell at the end of the pier.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

I've got a whole lotta love for this one!

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Elvis getting back to his country roots.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Brian Wilson really was a genius.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

North American dance-punk revival!

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Lauryn Hill's voice brings this album up.

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Let me raise a Cuba Libra in toast!

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

F**k you I won't do what you tell me. Too many protest singers, Not enough protest songs.

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

So, it turns out that Orbital and The Orb were actually different bands. Who knew?

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Outstanding contribution to road crossing safety.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

I had 2 hours lifting weights scheduled today, a bit of thrash metal was the perfect accompaniment.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

3rd in my list of DM albums!

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

One and done - Lauryn made what is probably the best female solo hip hop album of the 90s, dropped the mike and walked away.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Those Swiss guys sound really angry about something!

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man alone are almost enough to give this an automatic 5 stars. Almost!

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Scottish Bowie cover band...

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Bossing it.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Every day is an old school day.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Beatles tribute act.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

A strong and bold move away from being another Motown studio band.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

Mellow summer tunes.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Solid debut album.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Serves as an precursor to Bowie's Berlin, getting towards Peak Bowie.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Best fag paper related album so far... Also, who doesn't like a lyric about a nice shed?

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Riot grrrl!

Metallica

3/5

The black album, nothing else matters!

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

Afrofuturism!

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Middle of the road 70s.pop.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." A strong opening declaration!

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

The seed of the Bad Seeds.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Who hasn't had it in the ear before?

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

I wish for a succotash as a supper dish.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Pure jazz.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

You can't hang a man for killin' a woman who's tryin' to steal your horse.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Only got 3 stars because they snuck on the Mrs Robinson cover.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Red Alert!

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Covering both types of music: country and western...

2112

Rush

2/5

Sounds like a Canadian Ledd Zep cover band...

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Well worth another listen, a Jonie Mitchell for the 90s.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

The album cover that launched many a face painter's career!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

The earlier the better for MJ's musical output.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

Despite being a reasonably big fan I'd not listened to Sonic Youth pre the excellent Daydream Nation album. The earlier stuff is really good! Sonic Youth playing Glasgow Barrowlands 1992 was one of the best ever gigs I've been to.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

After a decade of messing around, U2 finally came up with a successor half worthy to follow Joshua Tree.

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Another American Teenage Fanclub!

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Peak Indie Sleaze.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

I never knew what Belinda Carlisle did before her solo career. I much prefer this!