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Album	You	Global	Diff
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.42	+2.58
Parklife Blur	5	3.38	+1.62
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.44	+1.56
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.67	+1.33
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
Yeezus Kanye West	4	2.76	+1.24

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.38	-2.38
Pyromania Def Leppard	1	3.13	-2.13
Guitar Town Steve Earle	1	2.8	-1.8
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.55	-1.55
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	1	2.48	-1.48
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.42	-1.42
Murmur R.E.M.	2	3.42	-1.42
Sea Change Beck	2	3.33	-1.33
Scum Napalm Death	1	2.07	-1.07

5-Star Albums (12)

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My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno · 1 likes

4/5

This sounds great, people need to open themselves up to weirder sounds more. Especially the production of the music from Regiment, Help Me Somebody and The Jezebel Spirit, very danceable, infectiously so. I like these weirder albums. I should’ve given The Modern Dance a better chance.

1-Star Albums (5)

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The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Appreciate the artistry, not really my thing though.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

‘Teach Your Children’ is very gentle, really enjoyed that one. I should explore older folk rock more.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Already kinda knew I’d love this one, very nostalgic album, good excuse to listen again.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

Yeeeah not overly keen, maybe it would just take a couple more lessons to get used to Janis Joplin’s voice

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

1/5

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

Appreciate that ‘weird’ experimental albums are on this list. Even if they don’t get rated so well by everybody else it seems. I feel a lot of the sounds explored in this album inspire a lot of the more contemporary music I love today, for that PIL deserve their flowers. Don’t get me wrong, none of this is going on my playlists anytime soon, but it’s a cracking experience as an album.

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Maybe it’s just because I got Metal Box before I got this one, but man, there is just nothing interesting me here at all. Just sounds astoundingly safe. Radio Free Europe is a very strong track though, credit where it’s due.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Needed this one to come up and remind me what an actual 6 star album sounds like. Not the most original opinion for this to be one of my favourite albums ever made I know, but it has to be up there. Every song builds off of the pageantry of the last, building a sprawling epic that maturely explores some deeply existential themes. The one-two punch of Time into Great Gig in the Sky in particular elevates me out of my chair. Only to pull you back into the retail addicted monotony of our modern day-to-day lives with the excellent Money.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

There’s so much personality in André 3000 and Big Boi’s performances, which brings a tonne of energy to the album. Combined with some very punchy production (Especially on tracks like Bombs over Baghdad and Xplosion) and it’s hard not to bob your head for the entirety of the hour+ runtime. Not sure I can get into the interludes to be honest. When I’m already a little weary about how long this album is, they just get a liiiiittle annoying. Wasn’t really pulled in by the humour of them either. Heavily felt some fatigue on the back half of the album. If this was trimmed down it’d be an all-timer.

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Feel like being born in 1997 and therefore never being around for the early 90s eurobeat scene might reduce my enjoyment of this album.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

1/5

There’s a fine line between weird music that’s good and weird music that is godawful to my ears. I recently gave Metal Box by Public Image Ltd 5 stars on here, but if that album was just a teensy bit zanier it would’ve been a one. I regret to say this album starting with a noise that would kill my nan on the spot is a teensy bit zanier.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Title song and N.I.B are 10/10 tracks. First half of the album is outstanding, the B side just isn’t as solid though, with Evil Woman and Sleeping Village probably being a 1-2 of the weakest songs on the album. Still, can’t ignore the brilliant, ominous, deeply occult aura of this album. I’m sure parent groups must’ve hated this on release back in the 70s! Feels very ahead of its time. There’s a harmonica solo, THEN a bass solo. Incredible really. Favourite Song: N.I.B Worst Song: Evil Woman, Don’t Play Your Games With Me

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Not sure I listened to the right album, but it was by the same band and had the same name soooo... Close enough?

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

So much of this album is very outdated, with the corny, one-note flows, identical in just about every song in the album, couple with some weird lyrics (Think he said something about preferring underage girls in The New Style? Ick). On the bright side, the singles are great. Fight For Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn both have such a rousing energy. Feels like in those two they actually get the rap/rock fusion correct, unlike the rest of the album. Those two songs do make me want to explore the rest of the Beastie Boys discography, I'm hoping they get it right on later releases. Favourite Song: No Sleep Till Brooklyn Worst Song: Girls

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

Fuck me dead this is so uninspiring. Just nothing interesting happening at all in here. To be honest I feel this sound is generic and played out by 1970 even.

Parklife

Blur

5/5

An absolutely masterpiece of Britpop. Obviously mileage will vary based on your attitude towards the genre, as a Brit myself this is heritage so you’ll have to forgive my bias. Also the fuck is up with the top review for this album. Like wooooah no way in the list of 1001 albums the same genre comes up once or twice, like yeah no shit dude

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

Genuinely my least favourite kind of music, sorry.

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

‘Perfect Day’ yeah Perfect Song more like am I right fellas haha (This album is absolutely stellar)

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

One of my dad’s favourite albums which, I mean yeah, it’s a dad album.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

When I started this process, I wanted to listen to all the classics that I hadn’t listened to before, give my musical diet a bit of depth and breadth. I didn’t expect that I’d find newer music, released in the last 10 years, that would become some of my favourite stuff. But I think Kiwanuka has got there for me.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Opening two tracks are great stuff. A lot of this albums makes me feel like I’m playing some long forgotten game for the Playstation 1. I like it, but I don’t think I’ll ever revisit it.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Always struggle not to think of either Christmas or the Fallout games when I hear old music like this. It’s okay, nothing is particularly interesting to me once you get over the novelty of it being old.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Say what you rightfully will about the man, but back in the day Kanye made some real masterpieces. This album in particular is what got me not only into rap but listening to music seriously in general, listening to albums in full and engaging with them in a meaningful way. A part of me wishes somebody else's album did that for me but here we are. I miss the old Kanye.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

As a man with zero memory of the 20th century, I hadn’t really ever heard Cat Stevens talked about amongst my peers. Sure, I’d heard ‘Wild World’ and ‘Father and Son’ before, but that was the height of it. This is what this generator is for really, because I would’ve gone my whole life never even thinking to listen to this, which would’ve been a shame, because it’s bloody fantastic.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Some interesting soundscapes but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t bored out of my mind.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

pfffft, yeah not for me

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Alarmingly relevant to the times we live in today. America has always been awful, who knew?

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

God, what an influential album. Feel like you hear sounds influenced by Yeezus today still, and you probably will decades from now.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Literally my favourite album so this rating can only go one way lmao

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Was wondering when they’d show up. This album has my absolute favourite Beatles song on it, ‘In My Life’. It isn’t the strongest Beatles album besides that, the opening few tracks are brilliant and then the album slowly regresses just a tad. But I mean, come on now, it’s literally the Beatles.