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Album	You	Global	Diff
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	5	2.39	+2.61
Sail Away Randy Newman	5	2.97	+2.03
Too Rye Ay Dexys Midnight Runners	5	3.12	+1.88
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	5	3.18	+1.82
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.3	+1.7
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.43	+1.57
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
Electric Warrior T. Rex	5	3.54	+1.46
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.54	+1.46

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	1	3	-2
Bad Michael Jackson	2	3.81	-1.81
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	1	2.74	-1.74
Music Madonna	1	2.69	-1.69
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.64	-1.64
Cloud Nine The Temptations	2	3.41	-1.41
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	2	3.39	-1.39
xx The xx	2	3.36	-1.36
Inspiration Information Shuggie Otis	2	3.27	-1.27
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	2	3.08	-1.08

5-Star Albums (16)

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Reign In Blood

Slayer · 1 likes

2/5

Wanted to like this more than I did. It’s just not that interesting

1-Star Albums (4)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Better than I remembered. Pocahontas, thrasher, sail away, powder finger all bangers. Sedan delivery not great.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

I do like it, and some of the individual songs are amazing. But it is very long and lacking any change in texture. Reality is too good for 3 stars, but good enough for 4.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

So fresh and so clean. Speakerboxx hardly ever lets up. Love below is much more experimental. 2 hours+ but flew by.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Middle of the pack Led Zep album. Immigrant song, Since I’ve Been Loving You, That’s the Way are highlights.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

So good

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Jazzy and experimental. Cool direction for hip hop / rock. Some of the instrumentals were cool. Still too long.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

The great Christmas album.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Bland. Poor cover of grapevine. I like other temptations stuff but this wasn’t it

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

1/5

If I’d never heard of Prince or Stevie I would be impressed, but I have and I’m not

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Some brilliant bits of songwriting. Very strong

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Bonkers. Actually a bit annoying in parts but then also bohemian rhapsody

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Not my thing but I can see the merit. Some good party tunes.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Wanted to like this more than I did. It’s just not that interesting

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Surprisingly good. Starship trooper was great. The clap kind of sticks out like a sore thumb but it is class so no harm done

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Brilliant album. Red Rain was a great opener. Some of the production is a little dated, on Big Time for example. Overall a great listen, somewhere between a 4 and a 5.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Good album. Fades a bit towards the end

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Tricky one to rate. I don’t love grime. I find some of the beats repetitive and some of the sound effects obnoxious. But the highs, like Fix Up Look Sharp, Wot U On and Do It are really good.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Love La Grange. The rest of the album was a little bit disappointing. Nice bluesy stuff but all quite samey.

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Enchanting rhythms and a beautiful voice. Blew me away the first time I heard it and still love it now.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Light years away from “My Girl”. Funky and earthy 70s offering. I like it

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Batshit but I love it

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

An extraordinary album that feels like a greatest hits package. Side 1 is a cohesive mix of slinky midtempo reggae jams, whilst side 2 is anthem after anthem

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Masterpiece

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I just want to share the comedy podcast Three Bean Salads take on Led Zeppelin: https://youtu.be/Gj8FihIIaic?si=mAhteZQikrLhVTkT

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

One of the first albums in this list that I don’t recall hearing before. Really enjoyable Afrobeat stylings from Mr N’Dour

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

It’s not bad. It’s not good. It’s just fine

The xx

2/5

I can see what’s good about it but it is incredibly dull

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

1/5

I do have a copy of the book, but I don’t remember this at all. Presumably it only made it into one edition, and it’s not hard to see why

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Proper prog rock

Music

Madonna

1/5

This hasn’t aged well and I didn’t like it when it came out

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Rock opera. Springsteen for drama kids. It’s one step up from Grease and as far from punk as you can get. By rights I should hate it. But it is absolutely brilliant

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Hard not to compare to Different Class, which is obviously in a different, better class. Feels like it could be a grower and I’ll try to revisit it a few times. For now, it’s a 3

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Excellent party rock album

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Chef cooks

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Songs of wonder and beauty from the man with the child in his voice. Won’t be for everyone but it works for me

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

After 55 years the tapestry is a little worn and faded, but you can still see how well crafted and elegant it is.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Quality album through and through. Brown Sugar to Moonlight Mile via Wild Horses, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch and Sister Morphone.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

An immensely cool album, led by a frontman dripping with charisma. So good

System Of A Down

4/5

Chaotic and bi polar, SoaD’s debut album sets the blueprint for their unique sound. It lacks the bizarro-commerciality of Chop Suey but in Suite-Pee, Sugar and Spiders still has some top tier crazy metal tracks. Soul sounds like the first sketch of Aerials, which is no bad thing

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

From track 1 of his debut album Cohen establishes his unique, sonorous sound. Masterful poetry over arpeggio guitar.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

You could be forgiven for thinking this is a Best Of. Half the tracks were released as singles, Heart of Glass chief among them, and the handful that weren’t include fan favourites such as Fade Away and Radiate and Will Anything Happen? For me, there’s a mid-album lull, and I don’t think much of the Buddy Holly cover. But otherwise it’s a cracking album

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

Abrasive and unrelenting, with many songs running for the close to ten minutes. Highlights include Luau, Super Unison and New Math. This album seems to have been labelled with lots of different genres, from post-rock to emo to math rock. I can see how it may have been influential to each of those, but it’s not really my cup of tea.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Gave this one a second listen to fully get it. A concept album about childhood, it’s great to hear Madness songs away from their greatest hits. New Delhi has not aged well, but then again we do have Our House which is an all time great.

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

God help you if this was the first album you got

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Me, listening and smiling politely

Foo Fighters

3/5

Pleasantly surprised by this one. It doesn’t have the highs of the Color and The Shape but arguably is a more consistent album overall, and it’s a hell or a lot stronger than later life dad rock Foo Fighters. Good album

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

5/5

This is a seriously good album. Dexy’s are criminally underrated. Enjoy the horns and the violins, and whilst Kevin Rowland is not the world’s strongest singer, I believe he has soul. A great discovery

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Love it. Have listened to this since I was a child and it never fails to lighten my mood. Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera put on a great show

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

I used to be so intimidated by this album. I knew that Black Flag were hardcore punk pioneers and that Henry Rollins was a maniac, and I figured it would be just too extreme for me. But time tends to soften these things and now, in 2026, this is just a really good punk rock record. Yes, there are intense songs with high octane vocals, particularly in the second half, but then there’s nothing inaccessible in tracks like Rise Above. You can hear how it influenced the next 25 years of rock. There’s even elements of self-satire, with TV Party and Six Pack. And that album cover is kick ass.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Flanked by two eastern-tinged pillars of weird, the inner sanctum of Want Two is full of beauty. From the sophisti-pop of The One You Love to the baroque Little Sister, the stunning ballad The Art Teacher to the elegiac Memphis Skyline, the album is full of gems. Also, shout out to Gay Messiah, which overlays its beautiful music with hilarious biblical imagery

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

I don’t really get why this is so well received. It’s fine. It’s quite pretty in a uninteresting way, like watching the sunrise from a motorway service station

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

One of these days people are going to wise up and realise Queen aren’t all that

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Ancient and overgrown as an old English forest

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

I quite like this. It’s a bit like Peter Gabriel but less poppy, a bit like The Blue Nile but less Scottish, a bit like The The but less electronic. It’s good and sounds like it would be a grower

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Did I enjoy this? I should coco!

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

It’s a wonky album! Enjoyed the first couple of tracks, but then the experimental electro of Scorpio was less tolerable. The Stevie wonder tribute was confusing but then we finish with the all timer The Message.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

5/5

It’s weird and noodley and nonsensical and British jazz-folk but I really like it anyway

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Any major dude will tell you this is crap

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

A cool listen but in truth it’s a little one-dimensional and on some of the tracks it felt like they were going to just jam forever

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

90s rock break up album sitting squarely in the second stage of grief. Bitter and angry lyrically, supported by cutting guitars and yet somewhat funky beats. A great new discovery

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Smooth jazz

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Hate the album artwork and not fond of the initial track. But over 76(!) minutes of eccentric indie rock, this one won me over. It’s a 3.5 for me

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

I’m not the biggest fan of live albums. The songs never sound quite right and it’s impossible to capture the feeling of actually being in the audience. This is no different, although it admittedly does showcase Van the Man’s deep catalogue and his soulful warble

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

I love Paul Simon and the title track is an absolute masterpiece. However, why on earth does this album start with a track about allergies?! Its a strange album, with plenty of beauty and introspection but also a fair few throwaway tracks

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Second live album in three days but this is much better. Template setting blues rock from Mr Muddy

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Emo electronica from Britain’s favourite Hull duo (next to Rod and Emu). Thorn has a singularly excellent voice but I could do without the squiggly 90s trip pop beats

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

2/5

Track 1 is a banger. Unfortunately the rest of the album is a bit nothingy

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

Where the hell did Family Guy get the idea that Randy Newman just sings about what he sees?

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Head and shoulders above everything else in the alternative rock-a-verse.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

Forgettable. Cathys clown is a good track

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

One of the finest albums of the singer-songwriter boom of the 70s. Very cool for Cat.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

First challenge: how much of this am I supposed to listen to? Having read the Wikipedia, I’ve decided to just focus on the actual concert recordings and skip the studio ones at the end. Second challenge: listening to jazz. (That’s a bit harsh, I did enjoy this)

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Short but sweet. I was familiar with the title track but pleasantly surprised with the variety of the rest of the album.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Young Neil Young hits his straps with a dazzling sophomore album. 4 of the 7 tracks are all time greats from the Canadian king