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Album	You	Global	Diff
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	5	3.39	+1.61
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.97	+1.03
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	1	3.68	-2.68
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	1	3.41	-2.41
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.4	-2.4
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	2	4.35	-2.35
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	1	3.33	-2.33
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	2	4.09	-2.09
Rings Around The World Super Furry Animals	1	2.97	-1.97
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	1	2.84	-1.84
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.79	-1.79
21 Adele	2	3.7	-1.7

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David Bowie	3	4.67

5-Star Albums (5)

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The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell · 1 likes

2/5

I have more respect for Joni Mitchell than I did before. The Jungle Line took me by complete surprise. That being said, I did not really enjoy this.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1 likes

4/5

Hooray for vinyl day. Cowgirl in the Sand, Down by the River, Cinnamon Girl. This is a great album.There's really not a terrible track on here, the worst of it being forgettable, which is more than can be said for Harvest. This is one of my favorites from Neil and the Horse. He's at his feverish best.

Hysteria

Def Leppard · 1 likes

2/5

Meh. Not awful, but not good, the hits are alright if I hear them like once a year, but the whole album is a pass.

1-Star Albums (8)

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White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Classic, definitely heard before. Good stuff.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Classic, have heard most of these songs before, but had never sat down and listened to this start to finish.

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Solid album. Good band. Not my favorite.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I used to love Led Zeppelin. I was ready for this to be done before it was over.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Not a fan of Xmas music and Spector is, yeah, but this sounds fucking gorgeous, even if I'll never listen to it again. Cheers.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Great stuff! Hadn't heard this whole album before, but Niki Hoeky was a great new find. All hail the Queen of Soul.

Face to Face

The Kinks

4/5

Love The Kinks, Village Green is among my favorite albums. This was great

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

2/5

Not my bag, some decent tracks, but way too repetitive for me, fine background tunes.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

This is a good album, it has some great sobgs. Michael Stipe can also come across whiny as all hell.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

I have more respect for Joni Mitchell than I did before. The Jungle Line took me by complete surprise. That being said, I did not really enjoy this.

Fever Ray

3/5

Solid. Not my usual stuff, but this was good

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Hell yeah. So many great tunes, classic album.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Good stuff

The xx

2/5

Meh. Unobjectionable, but that's about it.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

1/5

Ooof, I would rather have NOT listened to this. Blegh. When they started singing about tolerating people that you hate I wondered if they were talking about my feelings towards this album.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Not my general jam, but it's Curtis Mayfield, so it was still damn good, not super familiar with the dude so it was nice to hear more. That cover and title are also amazing.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Oh hell yeah, I'm definitely experienced. Excuse me while I kiss this guy. It is remarkable how fresh and vibrant this still stands. Haven't sat down and listened to the whole thing in years. Good shit. Mitch Mitchell is an excellent drummer, and it doesn't matter if Noel was pissed and down at the pub or not when Jimi's in town. Move over Rover indeed.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

1/5

The closer off this album absolutely slaps. Tasty tune that I've heard a million times. The rest of this felt like I was listening to a compilation called The Absolute Worst of The Kinks. No thanks.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Oh gosh, I used to be obsessed.wirh Sonic Youth. Haven't listened to this one in a few years. It is still a very good album.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Oh yeah, Monk is a genius.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Inoffensive pop. Nothing wrong with it, but for me it just lands with no more weight than 'meh.' Now, that cover of Iron Man, well that was different and unexpected, not great, but different and unexpected . . .'oh, Iron Man.' I like Huh better than Meh, so that earned an extra star.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Stevie Wonder! Higher Ground, Living for the City, He's Misstra Know-it-All, when Stevie hits, he hits on all fucking cylinders.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

This is fine. Well produced, inoffensive background music for me. Not my jam. Its fine.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Fuck yes. Metallica's best album in my opinion, not a huge Metallica fan, but this is a damn good album.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

This is a classic time capsule, the world again reacting to the new. Wild to hear the crowd reacting to the electric songs that I grew up loving. This is Dylan at his most interesting to me, caught in transition. Good stuff.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

I really like Jack White's music. This isn't my favorite album of his. There are some good tunes, but none good enough to overcome the stinkers as far as I'm concerned. The second half really falls off the beam. I get wanting to distance himself from the White Stripes sound, but it's what he does best.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

2/5

I mean, We Are Family is a good track, but this just isn't my style.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Like many, I'm familiar with this group mostly through Paul Simon's Graceland (and the wonderful exclamation in The Venture Brothers). This was cool, I don't think it's something I could listen to over and over again, but it was definitely cool.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Oh yeah. The laughing during the songs, the banter in between, Cash is a hell of a performer. And then we can talk about the tunes, they're all great and then there's Jackson, hot damn, what a hell of a voice Joan Carter Cash had. When she comes barreling into a few of those lines, just amazing. In addition to the performance itself, this record also does a great job of not letting you forget that Cash is singing to.men in prison, and I think that's important. The inclusion of the prisoner being called to reception, the inclusion of Cash asking for water, the men booing the warden. For me this is a masterpiece. This might be my favorite live album that I'm glad I wasn't in the audience for. Heh.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Okay, so I'm much more familiar with Joy Division than New Order, and I still think I enjoy Joy Division more, but this was really good. Sunrise stood out.

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

Ahh, okay. Some serious grooves here, but it's just so relentless that for me, it wears out its welcome quickly, and the vocals are definitely not my style. I like my metal more melodic. Still, this is solid, even if I'll probably never listen to it again. Like the intro to Altered States was bad-ass, but then . . . oh well.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Okay, I liked 'Lies.' Now I'm.digging 'Undet The Tide,' This didn't start well for me. I'm not sure it's something I'd go out of my way to play, but it grew on me a bit as the album progressed, and there were definitely some tasty moments. At start this was two stars at best, at a few.points it was almost four.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

I'd heard OF Amy Winehouse, I'd not heard Amy Winehouse. I was not prepared for this to be this good. Fuck yeah. Four stars.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Own this. Love this. Almost perfect. 4.5 stars for sure.

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

I knew 'That' Entertainment' which is a phenomenal tune. There were some.other good ones here as well, but for me, nothing that came even close to how good Entertainment is. I was hoping for more. Pretty Green was solid as well. Three stars.

Adele

2/5

I don't hate it. Rolling in the Deep is great if I hear it once or twice a year. She's obviously skilled. Just not for me. Two stars

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Fast Car is absolutely iconic. I haven't listened to this album in probably 20 years. It's still very good.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

This is regarded as Dylan's best period for good damn reason.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Blegh. Not for me.

Led Zeppelin

2/5

As a much younger dude I used to really like Zep. Now I was ready for this to be done long before it was. Interesting. That being said, Bonham and John Paul Jones still come across as bad ass, but Plant and Page can go pound sand for all I care. Lol.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

I was a massive Floyd fan as a younger dude. They still hold up from time to time, but it doesn't hit like it used to.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Oh hell yeah. Don't trust people who don't love Willie Nelson.

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

The vocals, I just can't get into the vocals. Much respect, not for me.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

There were a few tunes that were alright, but this ain't my jam.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

The Pogues! Not my favorite band, but damn are they fun. Sometimes this stuff hits in all the right ways. I hadn't listened to a full album of theirs until today, and I'm damn glad I have now done so!

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

1/5

I really don't like Cat Stevens, for a number of reasons.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

I like these guys better with the Y.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

It's not absolute ass, but it ain't good. It sounded much cooler when I was 10 and hadn't found punk rock yet.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Some damn fine tunes here. He was a great songwriter.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Okay, not the biggest reggae fan, this was solid if uninspiring. Wild cover of Strange Fruit was ah . . . Interesting.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

This is a wonderful album.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

If not for a few tracks that I really didn't like, this might have been three stars.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

I adore this album. Literally moving today so my vinyl is in transit, but I will dig the album out and spin it. Queen Bitch along is worth the price of admission. Song for Bob Dylan is a touch week, but still, five fucking stars.

Wild Gift

2/5

I want to like X more than I do. They're very just alright and there's more than a bit I really don't care for.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

Some great songs on this album. A full DK album is something I have to be in the mood for.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

One of the finest albums ever made. Absolutely amazing.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Yes. Own it, love it. Panic in Detroit isn't great and the closer is a touch overwrought for me, but the rest of this beauty more than makes up for it.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

Meh. Not awful, but not good, the hits are alright if I hear them like once a year, but the whole album is a pass.

Le Tigre

3/5

Immaculate vibes. Good stuff, not my go-to style, but I'm very glad I got to hear this, a couple damn fine tunes.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Oof, MJ is a tragic figure and this one doesn't have any of my favorites.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

1/5

Nope, not for me.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

So the quaverying, warbly vocal style is . . . oof, not a fan of that, made this hard going. Fistful Of Love was a solid jam, saved this for me. Not that I'll listen again mind you.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Love Bowie, own this album, it's not my favorite of his. Young Americans and Fame are both phenomenal. Yeah