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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	5	3.1	+1.9
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	4	2.53	+1.47
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	4	2.7	+1.3
Group Sex Circle Jerks	4	2.75	+1.25
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	4	2.78	+1.22
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	5	3.79	+1.21
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.82	+1.18
Rip It Up Orange Juice	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.25	-2.25
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.82	-1.82
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	2	3.72	-1.72
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.55	-1.55
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.48	-1.48
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.4	-1.4
Eagles Eagles	2	3.29	-1.29
Private Dancer Tina Turner	2	3.29	-1.29
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.23	-1.23
Crazysexycool TLC	2	3.07	-1.07

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	2	5

5-Star Albums (6)

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Funeral

Arcade Fire · 1 likes

2/5

Couldn't even remember what this sounded like by the end of the day.

Follow The Leader

Korn · 1 likes

3/5

In a way hes scatting throughout. 3.1/5

1-Star Albums (2)

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Violent Femmes

4/5

Commendable first album boys.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Great mixing. Covers many styles and samples.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Very mild, a little boring. Would be better live.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Lots of hits, knowing they're from Berklee kind of clashes with the very intimate southern and blues themes.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Outside of the hits it's pretty bland, Plastic Fantastic Lover is strange and clashes thematically.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Last song is cool, good length.

Adele

3/5

Would be a 4 star if actively going through a breakup. Crazy how young she was when this blew up.

Eagles

2/5

It's all power chords, guitar tone is anemic. The "chugging" song is weird, were they forbidden to swear?

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

It's not for me. 2.5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

What every 90s alt band wants to sound like. 4.2/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Pretty good indie rock, 3.8/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

All sounds the same. Bad love songs with messy lyrics.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

Wasnt what I expected, interesting sound. 3.8/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Dont know what they're saying but it sounds good. 3.7/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

Probably scary as hell in 72, nowadays just fun goofy rock.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Funky 3.8/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Tainted Love cant hold this up, "Seedy Films" had many flat vocal runs à la Yoko Ono. 1.5/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Important. 4.8/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Average outlaw country sound, not terrible but there is certainly better.

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Wah Wah is cool, didn't enjoy this.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Still goes dooweeoooo, but less goofy than earlier albums.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Lots of sounds that kinda fit together. 3.2/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Much better than 2008's Only By The Night. 3.8/5

Traffic

3/5

Dozed in and out, It's average rock.

Ramones

3/5

All sounds the same! But important nonetheless. 2.8/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Couldn't even remember what this sounded like by the end of the day.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

1/5

Yeah, im not listening to this man for 5 hours.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

I liked this, could benefit from a re-listen. 3.7/5.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

True neutral opinion on this, dont know if i'd call it essential listening.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Just cant match the energy of take on me. 2.7/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

If you like nick cave you'll love this. because he's in it.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

She needs to leave him alone, he can't take any more heartbreak!

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Looks like he's enjoying that banana.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

More matured than the early albums.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Softer than the cover would suggest.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

4/5

Very passionate french music. Too bad I cant speak french. 3.8/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Didn't enthrall me, but then again should ambient music?

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

This was ok, a few strange vocal choices throughout. 3.3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

It was fine, some songs lost me, but Life on Mars? Is great.

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Excellent. 4.5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Need to relisten with lyrics on front of me. Damn good.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

All sounded the same, couldn't relate. 2.5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Got kinda repetitive, not for me. 2.4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Really??? three Arcade Fire albums? 2.8/5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Pretty cool band I hadn't heard of. 3.7/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Good album, quite heavy for the time.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Don't have much to say. 3.5/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Short and sweet? Short and Slimey?

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Singer songwriter that keeps each song fresh. Gonna revisit sometime.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Good music, terrible band name. 3.7/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

He seems mad about something. 4.6/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Really really good.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

I liked this, gonna revisit.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

Almost tolerable.

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Chunky and heavy, but hard to take them seriously when Morello sells $2000 guitars made with underpaid labor and Zach sits on his 30 million like a dragon. "I'm Tom Morello and this is my masterclass."

Black Sabbath

5/5

Hit after hit, THE Ozzy era album.

Fever Ray

2/5

Cursive singing, lyrically bland Björk cover band. Though it could be a pretty good ambient album if they would keep their mouths shut. 2.4/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

The music and vocals aren't the problem here, it's the gross, pervy and strange lyrics. I have no wish to revisit this.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

This poor band sounds so bored. There was what, 4 covers on this? None of them can stand up to the original.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Soft rock can get boring quick, luckily this was only 33 minutes. Definition of OK.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Interesting, guest vocals were nice. 3.4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Ok album, could use more rock.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Never gave Van Halen a chance, pleasantly suprised. 3.9/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Not quite on the level of Prince or M.J. but suceeded in making an R&B record I didnt hate.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

5/5

Enthralling music and he was only 19?! 4.5/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

It's what I expected from The Cure. Meh. 2.7/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Their most popular release and for good reason. Not one track is out of place.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

Zaney and Crass. Gotta admit it's a unique concept. 3.7/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Not as good as his later work in my opinion. Apples to oranges I suppose. 3.8/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

The hits are great, the rest was average imo. 3.5/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Both ambient and striking. 3.5/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

Conceptually very interesting, but not as gripping as i would have liked. 3.7/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

When I think of hip hop this is about what it sounds like. 3.6/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

A bit boring but not a terrible album. Unmistakeably the Arctic Monkeys. 2.9/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Every big hit is on this, Mr Brightside is a classic for a reason. 3.9/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Samples plus samples plus samples as well as some samples. 3.9/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Clean and moody, like the crowd noise. I don't know music theory enough to fully appreciate this. 3.5/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Too long, not my thing. 2.9/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

New wave without any edge. 2.7/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Less whiney in his youth, still bob dylan voice though. 4.4/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

In a way hes scatting throughout. 3.1/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

A unique sound. 3.4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

The hits are ok but the rest is so corny. Everything they do Judas Priest did so much better. 2.9/5

War

3/5

Nothing really to complain about. 3.4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Anthony Kiedis found dead under the bridge. 2.3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Classic but boring, sounds like one neverending song. 3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

YEEOOOWWWW!! I AM THE MAN WHO ROCKS!!!

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Not the best Queen album but i thoroughly enjoyed it. 3.9/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

2/5

Quit singing like this please and thank you.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

4.4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Good folk songs about rock and vice versa. 3.8