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Album	You	Global	Diff
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.6	+1.4
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.63	+1.37
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.95	+1.05
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.71	-2.71
With The Beatles Beatles	1	3.65	-2.65
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.63	-2.63
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.62	-2.62
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	1	3.46	-2.46
Tidal Fiona Apple	1	3.46	-2.46
Abbey Road Beatles	2	4.45	-2.45
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.39	-2.39
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	1	3.37	-2.37
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33

5-Star Albums (5)

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Sign 'O' The Times

Prince · 1 likes

3/5

3 or 4 good songs

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk · 1 likes

1/5

I tried to listen but was really not for me. Elevator music for pretentious people.

1-Star Albums (31)

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Like A Prayer

Madonna

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

Utter utter poo

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

1/5

One decent song out of 40

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Da Capo

Love

1/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Interesting sound

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

1/5

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Utter pants,

Palo Congo

Sabu

1/5

Too much bongo shouty

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Two star album, one extra for the chain

Highly Evolved

The Vines

1/5

A bit like the strokes but without any good songs

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

2/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

1/5

Tedious

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

3 or 4 good songs

Tidal

Fiona Apple

1/5

A waste of good mobile data

Van Halen

1/5

This kind of crap gives dad rock a bad name

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Groovy baby

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

I don't like jazz but I liked this. Guess I like jazz now.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

1/5

I put up with 4 or 5 songs and had to change to planet rock.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Not too bad, they just need someone that can sing

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Finally, a 5 star album. Not a dud track on here. Since I've been loving you - sublime perfection. God's at work!

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Ye ha Rednecks rock

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

It wasn't good or bad, just very plain

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

Perfectly pleasant

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Very twee, the audio equivalent of a Bob Ross painting.

With The Beatles

Beatles

1/5

Very of a time and place, not any of their best songs on.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Some interesting stuff on here

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

The first song was OK, I struggled with the next few and gave up and retreated to Planet rock.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Some good tunes. Good epic rock.

GREY Area

Little Simz

1/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Actually better than I was expecting.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Good sound and plenty of top tracks

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

1/5

Nah, elevator hip hop music.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Mr soul

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Very pleasant

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

I liked this. A bit of queens of the stone age, the cult and the tea party.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

A couple of good songs, the rest can be left in the seventies.

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Top notch blues

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

1/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

1/5

Adele

2/5

Not bad for this type of thing. Million miles away sounds uncannily like Dusty Springfield.

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

Some good tunes. One star deducted for being a paedo.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

I liked the first one but then I kinda tuned out, it all turned into a Ramones type buzzing.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Some top tunes.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

My favourite era of Temptations.

The Cars

2/5

Not as bad as I was expecting, but a bit of a Talking Heads copy.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Some good blusey stuff. Timeless quality.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Groovy baby, I enjoyed this and I didn't think I would. Four and a half stars.

The Undertones

3/5

Some good tunes some so so.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

I tried to listen but was really not for me. Elevator music for pretentious people.

Debut

Björk

4/5

3 on here I really don't like but the rest are top notch.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

1/5

He obviously got a new glockenspiel for Xmas, dude needs to cheer up a bit. Dreary.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Early album with a couple of good songs. You can see where others songs have evolved from this. Also one or two really sound like The Who were an influence.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Nothing special but an OK bit of swamp rock, if that is such a thing.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

I liked it and I wasn't expecting to. The songs were mellow and developed and I got into them.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

1/5

What a load of crap. The only good thing about this band is the singers name.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Nothing special, too much singing and not enough good tunes.

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

A couple of good songs and the dude can sing but not my cup of tea.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

I find this type of rap boring and unimaginative, bitch this and mutherf*#ker that. It's time to grow up.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

I'd forgotten just how good this is. Not a dud track, humor, harmonicas and great lyrics.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

Dodgy 80s pop.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

1/5

It baffles me how something so obviously crap gets on this list. What even is this, redneck misery rock?

Common

4/5

I actually quite liked this. Had an old vibe to it. The music was good and the bass was really good.

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

3 or 4 good songs but the rest is very samey.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

A few crackers on this one.

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

On the whole not too offensive considering it had the word country in the genre description.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

1/5

I never wanted to marry any of my cousins, so country music just ain't for me.

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

Nothing brilliant.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Out of tune 2nd division Talking Heads.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Not utterly awful but close. Bonkers stuff.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Some classics and what a voice.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Very pleasant. I imagine this would be playing in the background at Dignitas while you have your last cocktail.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Didn't understand a word of it but I liked it.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

1/5

His voice grated on me after a while.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

2/5

I liked metal, but I think Megadeath have always been a crap copy of Metallica.

Abbey Road

Beatles

2/5

Scissor Sisters

4/5

I enjoyed this, maybe it was the right music for a sunny day. Particularly liked the gayest cover of comfortably numb I've ever heard.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

This utter crap is for vegans that drink soya lattes. The only good thing about this album is that I never have to listen to it again.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

2/5

As usual with these Beatles albums, 2or3 good songs that have stood the test of time, the rest, forgettable.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

Very middle of the road. The audio equivalent of shopping at M and S.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Quite samey but I enjoyed it

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Rush are very marmite, but you can't argue with the musicianship.

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

Awful 80s synth pop. I could almost forgive the plastic music but not the vocals. Especially the slaughter of Gloomy Sunday - check out Sinead O'connor's version to hear how it's done properly.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

I liked about half the songs on here but I don't think it was their best work.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Listenable hippy rock. Sounded better on the second listen, so 3.5 stars from me.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1/5

I imagine in the old days music was always this bad. Pants.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Groovy, very nice album.