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Album	You	Global	Diff
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	5	2.7	+2.3
Gris Gris Dr. John	5	2.89	+2.11
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon	5	3.24	+1.76
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	5	3.24	+1.76
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	5	3.29	+1.71
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	5	3.38	+1.62
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	5	3.45	+1.55

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.47	-2.47
Smash The Offspring	1	3.36	-2.36
The Yes Album Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	1	3.14	-2.14
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	1	3.03	-2.03
Very Pet Shop Boys	1	2.95	-1.95
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	1	2.89	-1.89
Happy Sad Tim Buckley	1	2.79	-1.79
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.67	-1.67

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5

5-Star Albums (27)

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Bad Company

Bad Company · 1 likes

2/5

Listening to this album I feel like they heard Humble Pie and decided to copy them without any of the personality or charisma. This is background music on a classic rock station. You won't change the channel but you're glad when the next song comes up.

Gris Gris

Dr. John · 1 likes

5/5

Walk on Gilded Splinters is a haunting masterpiece.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic · 1 likes

5/5

Classic. Title track is a killer

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell · 1 likes

2/5

I didn't dislike this but I can't engage with it. It's pleasant background music

Is This It

The Strokes · 1 likes

4/5

In my youth I dismissed this band as another Lou Reed/Television wannabe. In my old age I welcome them as Lou Reed /Television wannabes.

1-Star Albums (10)

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

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The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

Really poor album. I love punk rock but they ain't it

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

I do like this.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The best album of all time.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

Indian Sunset is gruesome and cringe worthy, even for the 70's. Holiday Inn was ok actually. I do like Homie Clothes So Tiny Damn, Son. All the songs are too fussy and some of the strings are oppressive. What is the deal with that chorus on Nasties? I didn't care for his piano playing. It sounds the same on every song.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Very interesting. I liked hearing the original source of samples for some hip-hop classics, but this is not something I would listen to again.

The Stone Roses

4/5

I'm surprised that I haven't listened to this before. It's a good album. I liked the Resurrection and Waterfall songs. I will listen again, but solid album at one go.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

I didn't register but everybody knows this album is good..God Only Knows and Caroline No are top-ehelon

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Nothing really stood out. The songs with the male singer are a drag. The woman singer sounds much better. I feel like this would be better without vocals as background music for a BBC period piece.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Glad I heard this. Reminds me of City of Good soundtrack (I'm well aware that it predated that movie, but it's what I, a white boy from the USA heard). I loved it

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

Weather to Fly is that straight-up Beatles descending chromatic but it works well. Overall group reminds me of British Sea Power and a little of early Coldplay. Not bad. Oof the Fix is in song is terrible

The Clash

5/5

Stunning album. I'm partial to the US pressing which came out with Complete Control added because that's the one I grew up with. The UK version is flawless.

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

I liked the first track. Then it seemed like every other track was a slip. I made it few several though and it was better than I remembered but Dear God is one of the worst songs ever recorded.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

The hits really are the ones that stand out. A whole lot of sax on the album tracks. Head Over Heels is a terrific song that I kind of forget exists.

Cypress Hill

3/5

Good beats but never a fan of B Real's flow

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Title track is a wonder. Love TVC15. Word on a Wing and Wild is the Wind are two of Bowie's best vocals. This is one of his best works

The Yes Album

Yes

1/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

I didn't dislike this but I can't engage with it. It's pleasant background music

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Blech

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Wuss rock was invented in 1972

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

The best soundtrack ever

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

5/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Not for me.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

There were a few good tracks but I was bored.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

5/5

An all time great

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Interesting

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

God-tier

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Really prettty

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

They're a good band. There's a few songs here that are a little too English music hall sounds that are pretty annoying. I didn't care for the narration. It was too precious and detracted from good songs like Son of a Baker

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Classic. Title track is a killer

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Poor Places is slept-on

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

5/5

Absolute classic from the greatest MC of all time

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

There are several good songs and some clunkers. Love's more of a presence than a singer, but the overall sound is good. Miss World was a hit but I do not care for it. Violet, Jennifer's Body and Doll Parts are good.

Killing Joke

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

It's a pretty good album

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

I think it's time for people to recognize what I've known for a long time. The Flaming Lips are not a special band. This album is better than the rest of their oeuvre but I will not ever seek this out again.

Violent Femmes

2/5

Blister in the Sun is not great. There are some decent tracks here besides that

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

It couldn't keep my attention

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Brilliant album

Very

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

Not for me.

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

In my youth I dismissed this band as another Lou Reed/Television wannabe. In my old age I welcome them as Lou Reed /Television wannabes.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Bad Company

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The best album of 1968, bar none.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

5/5

Walk on Gilded Splinters is a haunting masterpiece.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

It's a great album

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

Yawn

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Top Notch

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

I really don't care for this style of music. I tried to listen to this album but I kept fast-forwarding tracks after I couldn't take anymore.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

There's the his and then there's a lot of biting tracks. Some instrumentals and hardcore tracks. My problem with the Beasties has always been that they are not good rappers. They are cool, but this album ain't it.

The Cars

2/5

Some good songs but not my thing

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

I really loved the Beatles. They were 13-year old me's favorite group. So why do I dislike their solo work, Plastic Ono excepted? There's one good song on this album, and it's his best post-Bestles, so it's not a 1-star review.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

None of the songs were bad but none made much of an impression. I do not like the vocalist much. An Ocean Between the Waves is a good song. I get a but if a Spaceman 3 meets MMJ vibe from them without being as good as either of those bands I mentioned.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

I remember getting this album in 2001 or so and thinking Radiohead were over. Such a comedown after the run from Bends to Kid A. They rebounded with In Rainbows but they have not been at the same level as they were for their golden run. Happily this is better than I remembered it. I might have listened twice back in the day, but I enjoyed this overall

Suede

2/5

I liked one song (Animal Nitrate)

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

1/5

Mom, can we get De La Soul. We have De la Soul at home. It's Arrested Development. White people loved this

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

The tracks are good but I just didn't like the vocals at all. They're still and the lyrics are submediocre

John Prine

5/5

Great debut album. Some all time classics and some trifles. One of my favorite artists, taken to soon by COVID.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

I love some of Eno's stuff, but this came off as sounding too adult....in the late 70's. I did not find any settings to be truly memorable. That said it's pretty good

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Stoned me + Moondance o Crazy love - Caravan o Into the Mystic + Come running - Dreams of you - Brand new day + Everyone o Tidings +

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

This album had been with me for the last majority of my life. I listened to it again. Still great. 1983 A Merman I Should Turn to Be is an all time classic, to say nothing of Voodoo Chile, Have You Ever Been, Watchtower etc

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

I remember this album coming out and I didn't have any interest in it. I'm a huge Bowie fan. I liked the Tin Machine albums for Chrissakes. But I checked out after Earthling. It seemed like he started going backwards after the failure of that project. I love Classic Bowie. But his deal was always to go forward, even if his older fans just wanted to get Jean Genie for the thousandth time. This album feels like Bowie channeling his younger self. And it's overall a very mixed bag. I'd Rather Be High is a good track though. There are some others that don't feel like nostalgia farming. Where are we now and Valentine's Day were skips for me.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I thought this was my favorite LZ album. I listened to it all the way through for the first time in decades and it's not as good as I remember. Still better than IV, but but as good as Physical Graffiti. Ramble On and Whole Lotta Love are still certified bangers. Moby Dick is tedious. Lemon Song and Heartbreaker are the works of callow youth. Thank You is underrated.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

1/5

7-minute Glockenspiel solos! Jazzy feel without jazz musician competence! Put this on next time you take a road trip in your hybrid Subaru because you "get it" more than I do, friend.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Much better than I thought it would be. I'd heard back in the same and last child but there were a few good numbers and a few clinkers.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

There are a lot of bangers. She has a great voice. There's a mix of throwback soul and modern RnB with some indie rock sounds. A terrific album

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5