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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	5	3.1	+1.9
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	5	3.15	+1.85
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.19	+1.81
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.29	+1.71
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
Live Through This Hole	5	3.31	+1.69
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Ramones Ramones	5	3.56	+1.44
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	3	5
Beatles	5	4.4
David Bowie	3	4.67
Kraftwerk	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5

5-Star Albums (24)

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

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Ramones

Ramones · 1 likes

5/5

Still fresh 50 years later. These are essentially 50s sugary pop songs with distorted guitars. The invention of punk as an ethos.

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Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Not my usual style, but good soul/r&b album

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Not their most innovative, but their most raw. Plus an incredible collection of rock songs. Their best album.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

A wonderful album - emotional, poppy, silly/serious.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

First time listening to it in full. Solid prog rock, done really fun bits here and there. I think I missed it by 30 years, I would have loved it in my teenage years.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

It’s a masterpiece. Although not my favourite of theirs, you can’t deny the genius. Yes, it’s self indulgent at times, but there’s still a cohesion that will be gone in the next album. A seminal album that packs a lot of emotion and self discovery.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Pure perfection. I still remember hearing it for the first time and being blown away. The simple and catchy hooks, the dumb/profound lyrics infused with biblical references, and of course the interplay of Charles and Kim’s voices.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

This is the one where they got into their groove. Not yet the genius of Bakesale but still so many bangers.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

This album is incredible. The original alternative rock, zero fucks given.

Achtung Baby

5/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

One of the best debut albums of the mid 2000s.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Excellent album. I know it’s supposed to be one of the early metal albums, but it’s just a really good rock album, with a lot of variety.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Very good rock album

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

Weird choice here - it’s a compilation of hits. Some are great, some are ok. I guess I’m not so much into the hives as I used to.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

Incredible and influential album

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

First time I heard smells like teen spirit, I thought it was too loud. Cut to listening to this album on repeat. This has been one of the biggest influences on my musical taste.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Electronic music won’t exist without this album. The Model is the first electro pop song. The Robots and Man Machine are genius. A must listen.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Incredible genius of an album. Every song is a banger. Paul is the goat with putting together the medley. Still tear up when I hear golden slumbers.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

What an incredible album. Every song a banger and a classic.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

This brings back so many memories. I remember watching it live on tv, it was so different from anything I’ve heard from nirvana then. Kurt didn’t care to play the hits, he wanted to expose people to artists he loved, and have fun.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

What an incredible album. The point where blues fused with rock.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Perfect album. The wall of distortion starts and never stops. Amazing mix of rock and psychedelia.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Garbage

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

5/5

Incredibly underrated. So emotional and raw.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

Perfect pop psychedelia. Early signs of progressive rock with a lot of playfulness from Syd.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

The Cars

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Perfect from start to finish

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Even the worst Bowie album is better than most others. And this is one of his best. What an achievement. Every song is incredible, every song is so different yet they all add up to this story of a world on the verge of apocalypse and the alien who comes to save them and is rejected by humanity. “To be played at maximum volume”

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5