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Album	You	Global	Diff
Roots Sepultura	5	2.78	+2.22
Melody A.M. Röyksopp	5	3.2	+1.8
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.42	+1.58
Black Metal Venom	4	2.46	+1.54
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.51	+1.49
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.56	+1.44
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	1	3.26	-2.26
Dust Screaming Trees	1	3.16	-2.16
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	1	3.03	-2.03
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	2	3.81	-1.81
Nixon Lambchop	1	2.74	-1.74
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	1	2.72	-1.72
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	2	3.65	-1.65
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Shleep Robert Wyatt	1	2.5	-1.5
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	2	3.44	-1.44

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	2

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Dust

Screaming Trees · 1 likes

1/5

good god

1-Star Albums (6)

All Ratings

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Several bangers on this one.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

2112

Rush

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

1/5

No thank you!

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

1/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

6/10

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

It's a great feeling when a band you've tried to listen to for years just clicks. What an album.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

6/10

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

3/10

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

7/10

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

7/10

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

5/10

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

7/10

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

7/10

1999

Prince

3/5

5/10

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

4/10

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Well this just shot up to the top of my rotation. Incredibly creative sampling, flows perfectly from beginning to end, and just so much fun. Favorite tracks are hard to pick based off first listen when it's such a cohesive whole, but Frontier Psychriatist stood out.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

8/10

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

I like Bonnie's voice but these songs are pretty bland. Favorite song: Nick of Time

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

Was nice enough background For driving.

Dust

Screaming Trees

1/5

good god

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Really wonderful. I was only familiar with Son of a Preacher Man before but the whole album is full of beautiful tracks like it. Other favorites are Just A Little Lovin', Breakfast in Bed, The Windmills of Your Mind.

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The acoustic-heavy back half drags this down just a bit but man that first half rocks. Every song from Immigrant Song to Out of The Tiles is killer.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

This is perfectly fine. Queen has been one of those "like and respect but don't love" bands for me, this album didn't change that.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

Crisp production and decent performances but these songs are very forgettable. Favorite track was Get Free I guess?

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

8/10

Black Metal

Venom

4/5

7/10

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

4/10

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

6/10 Had my head nodding throughout. Some catchy grooves and I enjoy the prominent bass in the mix, but nothing wowed me here. Just a solid rock record. Favs: Tighten Up, The Only One

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

4/10 You really feel every one of those 90 minutes.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

5/10

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

7/10 Good songwriting, and Beck is very good at creating an intimate and warm sound on his music.

Nixon

Lambchop

1/5

2/10 Nothing really works here. A sleepy, uninspired bunch of songs with a weird kind of Bowie imitation on top with the vocals.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

2/5

This one didn't get me into French rap, sorry to say. A few decent beats though. 4/10

Da Capo

Love

2/5

4/10 It was silly and fun for the first few songs, but really fell off with that last track.

Elvis Presley

3/5

6/10 It's Elvis. What's there to say.

S&M

Metallica

3/5

It's a bit of a mess. The old thrashier songs needed serious reworking to fit the orchestra, but there's glimpses of a cool thing in the post-Black Album material. I had fun watching the DVD, but don't think I'll be returning to this. 5/10

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

It's a little dated, and repetitive even for the genre. But it's still a vibe. 6/10

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Swell.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

It feels like Steely Dan-lite, but I like Steely Dan so it's still smooth listening. Just nothing that really stuck with me. I'll put on Aja instead.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

This was a rollercoaster. My feelings ranged from weirded out and delighted to bored almost from song to song.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

This is Rush perfected.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

A nice, cozy blanket of a recording.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

The Specials

2/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

The weekend starts here.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Good riffs, good playing, terrible vocals.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Rock musicals still very much not my thing but this one's not bad.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

It's just fun.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

I'm slowly going through their catalog and starting to realize that I might really like The Beatles. This one's not my favorite but there's good stuff here.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

It's fun. Björk's style of singing doesn't always work for me but she's on fire here.

Roots

Sepultura

5/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

School is a strong start that the album doesn't live up to.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

2/5

Sounds good. I just don't really care for it.

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Perfect Day is a great song.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Holds up.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

There are many better versions of this.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

5/5

It's an album that just makes my day better when I hear it. One of my favorites.

Roxy Music

2/5

That was a weird mess. Not entirely without its charms though.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Beautiful album. Melancholic and sad but not overly so, soulful singing and playing. Loved it.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

It's a good time.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Vibrant and fun, sounds great. Every track didn't hit on first listen but there were a few high points, like Hypocritical Kiss and Weep Themselves To Sleep.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

1/5

Let Me Entertain You is a 3, Angels is whatever, rest is horrible.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

2/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

This was okay. I like the concept better than the execution.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Pleasant but not terribly interesting. Some cool rhythmic ideas.

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Smashing Pumpkins is 2/2 so far with 5-star albums. Just fantastic rock albums.

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Nothing terribly unique going on here compositionally but I enjoyed the moods and sounds. Felt long at 1hr.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Lovely playing.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

The xx

2/5

The dual vocals don't match well. The guitars are repetitive. l'm all for minimalist pop that's not crazy overproduced but this is dull.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

This 2001 reissue is a weird collection but these are still mostly great songs.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

It does the damn thing.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Janis elevates the material here. The covers were the highlights.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

It's no Dire Straits (1978). Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms still bangers though.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

I found the first half almost impenetrable on first listen, with the exception of "Heroes" which is great. The ambient second half was cool and spooky.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Huge childhood album for me. Might be Maiden's most consistently good album, only one weaker track in the bunch (22 Acacia Avenue), but doesn't reach their best heights. Clive Burr on fire here.

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Fun album. I like the song where he just lists James Bond movies.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone