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Album	You	Global	Diff
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.81	+1.19
Destroyer KISS	4	2.85	+1.15
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sea Change Beck	1	3.33	-2.33
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	1	3.12	-2.12
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	3	-2
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	1	2.92	-1.92
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	2	3.39	-1.39
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	2	3.37	-1.37
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	3	4.34	-1.34
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	2	3.33	-1.33
Risque CHIC	2	3.28	-1.28
american dream LCD Soundsystem	2	3.17	-1.17

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Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions · 1 likes

3/5

Not his worst album, but not his best. The dynamism of his early stuff, combined with better production should have meant this would be better. Odd choices for singles from it. Best thing I found about it is that it's Napoleon Dynamite on the cover.

1-Star Albums (5)

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Dookie

Green Day

4/5

I don't think I've listened to this in the past 25 years. It's aged, but aged well. Dynamic and melodic. Silly. White Stripes simplicity. Bass lines that hook. I miss Nick.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

More blues than I thought

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

You can see why it influenced so many people. I still don't like her voice.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Ummm This just reminds me of the boys (they were always boys) who could play their instruments really well, keep a beat and not have a single memorable track. Geeks.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

My son got into Michael Jackson's music last year. It made me relisten to a great deal of his back catalogue. Early, bouncing, dancing Michael was the best Michael. This isn't a perfect album, but it has some of the best aged music.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Not my thing.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

1/5

Sea Change

Beck

1/5

I like Beck. I've listened to this album at least 3 times previously. I couldn't tell you anything about it. Dull.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Banger. It's aged pretty well. Still angry. Still bouncy. Tom Morello's guitar still running a madness. Still great.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

1/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Some lovely songs on here, but also some, ultimately, forgettable.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Hard work

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

An album of its time. When so many albums and bands of that Seattle scene are reassessed as to whether they were grunge or punk or just rock, Mudhoney were always grunge. Definitely an interesting album, but one that doesn't make me want to return to it each day.

Destroyer

KISS

4/5

New York Dolls

2/5

I understand why they were important in the grand punk scheme of things, but there's a reason why they don't get mentioned in the same hushed tones as some of the British punk bands, or later American ones. They just didn't have the tunes.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Good, but uneven. Some tracks are just filler, but when it's good, it's great.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The whole album is short and sweet, with variety and depth. Unlike some of their other albums.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

This isn't the worst album that the generator has thrown out. But it's certainly not the greatest. Musically, it's fascinating, full of interesting and artistic choices. But I just don't think I'll ever want to listen to it again.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

When this album hits, it really hits. There's a lot of filler on here though.

Guero

Beck

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

One of those rare albums. One that is melancholy and romantic, but bears up to repeated listens.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Previous LCD Soundsystem albums sound like the party you wished would keep going. American Dream sounds like the music played to tell people that the party is over. Stand-alone, this is a decently made album, but it drags and meanders.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

This isn't the most even of releases. Essentially a compilation / cover album, it suffers from mixed production values. The one thing that separates this from others is the quality of songwriting and Sandy's soaring vocals.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

I listened to this years and years ago, in my early twenties, as someone looking to get into more alternative music and away from Korn, Sepultura and punk stuff. I hated it then. It's grown on me since and I can appreciate that it's the sound of a great band starting on their journey. It's jangly guitar sounds are appropriate for the early 80s post punk scene. A lot of the songs do sound very similar, with chord changes and dynamics that don't very much from track to track. They get better.

Bert Jansch

2/5

My mum likes this album, I'm sure. My dad has a beard because of this album, I'm sure.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

This is a very different kinda feel from Bruce. Someone else in the reviews mentioned Nick Cave and, lyrically, I get it. Songs of desperation and crime with a human touch. As an album it's a bit samey though.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

The sound of a guy who knows how to play a guitar, but doesn't know what to play.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

The best Elvis Costello album. Some absolutely classic guitar pop.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

A great voice, but a mish mash of songs.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Ah, Beatlemania Beatles. It's not the best album ever, but it does give a good insight into what their early output was like. The number of covers on here should be a clue as to how this second album was released. It's still that early bouncy Scouse energy that shines through, but it's something they moved away from for a reason.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Not a perfect album by any means. But when it hits, it really goes for it. Supernaut is amazing, crunching, sludgy guitar over Ozzy at his best. And Changes is a goddamn gorgeous beautiful song. Some of the tracks on here aren't to the same standard though, and feel like filler, and the tracklisting feels a little off. But time we'll spent.

Risque

CHIC

2/5

Reviewing this the morning after listening to it, I realise I remember very little about it. Good Times is a bop, but the rest of the album made very little impression on me.

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

I think "interesting" will cover this album. When it's uptempo and energetic, this really goes for it, but frequently it descends into downbeat discordant farty bass noise. Worth a listen.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Very 80s. Second half dragged a bit.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

It's not that there's too much Elvis Costello on this list, it's that whoever made the list must be obsessed with him. This isn't a "bad" album. It's just really quite dull.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

A mixed bag (no pun intended). Some bangers. Some dancefloor filler. It suffers the same fate as many dance albums, where the context of a DJ set makes more sense than an 45 minute album.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Everyone had at least one friend in uni who told you they were a musician, and could play multiple instruments. When they asked you to come see them play, it was always with the knowledge that we'd still be friends even if they were a bit shit. Which they usually were. Coldplay tap in to the same crappy vibes as those guys (it's always guys). But unlike your mate, being invited to the local pub to see them, Coldplay can actually write an ok song. Parachutes is good. A few timeless classics in there. Chris Martin is still whiny.

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

David Bowie

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Front half of the album is almost perfect, second half drops the ball a little. So good.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Almost perfect. A couple of the non hits are really not great.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

I love Pulp, but their output can be hit and miss. There are more misses than hits on here.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Pleasant, well made, with some fine songs covered. Unfortunately, some of them feel like parody songs conjuring up mental images of Willie in a lounge suit.