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Album	You	Global	Diff
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	5	2.91	+2.09
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.07	+1.93
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye	5	3.22	+1.78
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.27	+1.73
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
The Slider T. Rex	5	3.28	+1.72
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.33	+1.67
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.37	+1.63

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.62	-2.62
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.59	-2.59
Blue Joni Mitchell	1	3.5	-2.5
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	1	3.35	-2.35
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	1	3.23	-2.23
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.83	-1.83
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	2	3.78	-1.78
Chelsea Girl Nico	1	2.63	-1.63
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	1	2.63	-1.63
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	2	3.6	-1.6

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Joni Mitchell	2	1

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Artist	Ratings
Marvin Gaye	5, 2

5-Star Albums (21)

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

Popular Reviews

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra · 1 likes

4/5

I want to rank this a 5, I was not unhappy with it, but I also know I have to be in the right mood to really enjoy this. Every song sounds similar, which again, isn't necessarily bad, but it's enough to not give it a 5.

1-Star Albums (10)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Pretty alright, some solid radio favorites but also the others stand on their own ok. The album has stood the test of time longer than I thought it would.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Despite the over-the-top, cheesy/corny/cringe, it's impossible not to love this album. A perfect masterpiece.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Great time!

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

A nice listen with a couple classic hits. Album as a whole is best for rainy Saturday mornings. That doesn't mean it's bad, it just means not every Saturday morning is a rainy one.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

No thanks. Got bored.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Fun trip.

Blur

3/5

Woo hoo! But album as a whole, is just ok.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Classic, never gets old.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

...in the right place. Great songs scattered about a mostly great album.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

2/5

California Stars... Couldn't save the album from being kinda borin/depressing.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Iconic songs from an iconic voice. Every song on this album is someone's favorite song.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

Eh, just ok, eventually my brain just tuned it out.

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

I had a good childhood, I heard this album a lot back then... But this album doesn't make me feel nostalgic, it just annoys me. Maybe that means something deeper about my childhood, or maybe it just means the Eagles are boring.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Started slow, turned into a fun 3... But then it saxed me up and by the time it got to The Funky Space Reincarnation, it was a definite 5. So much funking groove.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

Melancholy garbage. I appreciate the song These Days (St. Vincent's version is top notch), but Nico was right, the strings and flutes make this album almost unlistenable.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Fun, wide variety of sounds.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Light reminiscing, all thing go.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

1/5

Yawn

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Punk yeah! That was fun!

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Real groovy, kept me hooked the whole album, way better than expected. I can't believe I've never listened to this before.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Perfectly vulgar, had fun, would do again...

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

I still don't know if I love this or hate it, so I think it gets a 3... If I re-listened the vote might go up or down depending on the day and my mood, which I further think solidifies the need for this album to be a 3.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

The rap I wasn't supposed to listen to as a kid, wasn't all that bad.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Just ok...lost interest halfway through.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

I don't hate his voice, but this was my first time paying attention to everything else on this album, musically it's purdy good.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Eh, only giving three because of the reminiscing I did about Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Nostalgic feeling, now I want a lemonade or a cheap cold beer... Idk what that means, but it was a fun listen.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Yes, all good people should give this album a 5. Stanky bass, so many diverse sounds.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Incredible talent

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Probably in my top 25 of all time. Classic.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Sounds like a spring Saturday morning cleaning the garage with my dad in the 90s.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Fun and jazzy, not too poppy, solid album.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

I like jam bands, and though I've never been a flag carrying Allman Brothers Band fan, this album has me questioning why I haven't given them more time, thanks for letting me give them more time. It was fun.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

A couple ok tunes, overall kinda boring.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

4/5

This album started as a 1 or 2, but the tragedy really amped up in the middle and the stories were thrilling.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

1/5

Despite my appreciation for Killing Moon, I did not enjoy this album.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Very well produced, some solid tunes, got a little bored by the end.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Even my kids enjoyed this album.

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

I appreciate a good drinking tune, but these were just meh.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

1/5

Booooorrrring,... She has talent, but this listen couldn't end fast enough.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

I wanted to like this more, it was good but not great.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

It started fun, still wanted more from it.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

5/5

Really really great. 10x better than all the AI lofi hip hop channels and videos on YouTube.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

This album seems particularly fitting for the crazy year of 2026 and world events going on currently.

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Classic rock sounds, not the biggest fan of Rod's voice, but the rest of the talent here makes up for it.

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Vanilla, over-produced, lifeless, boring, gross.... were the first words that came to mind...

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Nasty! In the best way possible. Loved it.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

There's something good to find in nearly every track on this album. So good.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Ahead of its time does not always equal good or foundational.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Fun, but not exceptional.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

I like the blues and I like BB, but the songs and the album as a whole were just too short. It was just a blues appetizers...

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

4/5

First impression was obviously pretty low, but I embraced the weirdness factor and landed on a shakey 3/5... But then I reminded myself about active listening and eventually that led me to bump it up to a 4. It not just weird for weirdness sake, there's some real substance throughout the album. If the Flaming Lips had stuck to blues rock, this is what they would have sounded like. It also reminded me quite a bit of various Jack White productions.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Simultaneously everything I love and hate about most music from the 80's. The fact that it can exist in both planes with equal abundance in my mushy grey brainz means it gets a 4/5, though I'm tempted to give it a 5/5 because of that reason alone. F$&@ it, it's getting a 5 for being the actual definition of antithesis.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Contemplative and serious but also silly and fun. Solid listen.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Lots of nostalgia for me for this album. Some big hits for sure, I had assumed it would get a 5, but after listening I'm ok with it getting a 4.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Some really great tunes on this one, but I thought the album as a whole would be better. It's ok, not excellent.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

I can appreciate the talent, the stories, and the beats. There were some high points but also some low/boring points for me. Probably won't listen to it again, but I'm glad I took the time to listen to it all the way through.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

2/5

Ehhhhhh, wanted to appreciate it more than I did.

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

I can almost piece together what I think she was going for with this album... And there were a few surprising moments where it almost worked... But I think she failed miserably with this one. 20 Dollar stood out more than the infamous Paper Planes (which also doesn't fly quite right), but only enough for a 2.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Tacky, like the sheets in the honeymoon suite at a roadside motel somewhere in the middle of nowhere Nebraska.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

This is not hip hop, this is not world music, this is a boring white dude who suddenly discovered that black people make great music and he wanted to steal some of their pie. This is the first album on this list that I can say with 100% certainty was an actual waste of time and did not need to be listened to by me before my eventual passing. Give the actual musicians some credit, but this "album" is def a 0.

The Slider

T. Rex

5/5

Amazing! This came out the same year as Ziggy Stardust, and I might like this more. It also reminds me of a more gritty unpolished ELO. This album is what I was hoping to get out of going through this list. I had heard of T.Rex and a song or two but never given an entire album of theirs a real listen. I'm real glad I did, this was dope. I will be spinning it again.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

Dreamy indie rock that really is all over the spectrum sound wise. Some songs reminded me of Buddy Holly, some reminded me of a gritty 90's garage rockers, yet others had me thinking about hippies. I could see myself listening to this more and having it really grow on me, like other albums in this genre have for me.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

Music = passion = love... That's all you need. Sometimes you add a little guitar to help you out, sometimes a piano plink or two, if yer feeling feisty you might add some bass and drums or some well-timed repetition... But in the end, none of that matters, only the passion and love really matters and Elliot Smith had an abundant amount of both in every once of his music. It flowed out of him so naturally. I try not to be too stingy with my 5/5 ratings, but this is one of those albums that deserves 100 stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

Ok! Some 90's blues rock, that'll work for today! Ok, the production is good, I wonder when the album will start to shine... Ok... I'm still waiting... This is so vanilla milk toast... The instrumental tracks were about the only thing that actually stood out to me... The rest of it all floated away during my dull Saturday morning walk. The lyrics were blah, the voice was ok sometimes, but not really. All in all, it was just Ok.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Raw. This could get almost anybody into punk, if they weren't already. If you're reading this thinking, "yeah whatever," you're probably part of the problem. This is fucking incredible.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Was looking forward to this one, as it's been a minute since I've listened to it. Assumed a 5, but landed on a 4. Not as epic as I remembered throughout the album.

Foo Fighters

4/5

First Foo Fighters album I've listened to all the way through. Pretty good. Raw energy from Dave. The album bopped along just fine, but not a lot of wow factor for me. Maybe it depends on the day, or maybe it's just ok. I'll give it a 4 anyways.

The United States Of America

4/5

Trippy AF 60's nugget. Really fun, politics of it seem timely again.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Reminiscing about my awkward teenage development years is... well, awkward, but this album cover was influential during that time... the music, however, was not... and still isn't. There's potential, but it's not realized, kind of like my development during those years, lol.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

There are some undeniable classics on here. All the musicians are great, but I still don't really enjoy Young's voice all the time.

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Ooof, I actually liked it for a little while, but then realized it was mostly just distraction free background music, but then realized how long the album was, but then realized how repetitive the album was, but then....

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Classic. Rock. Mostly enjoyable, with a little filler sprinkled in. Other TP albums are better than this one, as a whole.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Orion actually made me stop doing what I was doing, which was not really Listening to the album... But that's only enough to bring it up to a 3 for me. I understand that this album is important to others, but it just doesn't do it for me. I can only Listen to a couple Metallica songs before I get bored. Oh and I should probably use the word douche canoe in here somewhere... Because of the Napster drama and all.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

You know that feeling you get when you look back at pictures of yourself during that awkward development phase of middle school and think, "wow, look at that awkward nerd, how embarrassing..." That's this album. Nu Metal from this time can be good, but this is not, it's forever stuck in that awkward development stage, and anyone who likes this beyond any nostalgic recollection of those times should be embarrassed.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

5/5

If there's anything the world could use more of in the year 2026, it's girl punk with some sax. How has this never floated across my radar?

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Whenever I just don't know what to do with myself, I know this album will be there for me. Even in the cold cold night, I know this album will be there for me. Isn't it comforting knowing you've got her in your pocket?Jolly good.

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Nope, nothing really stood out to me with this one.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

It's got a lot of elements I like, but man, it's still that 80's sound that hits me weird sometimes. Started listening to the album as some background music during while getting ready for the day. Halfway through I put on headphones and i did like it a little more... But not enough to give it more than a three.

Van Halen

1/5

I grew up listening to a A LOT of classic rock... My dad's fault. I learned to appreciate most of it. But, as my dad already knows, I'll be giving this album a 1. Despite it being loaded with "hits," I just can't stand David Lee Roth's voice and the whole Van Halen vibe has always felt off to me.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

I'm not an expert in Bob Dylan's catalog, but this seems like a pretty good collection of Dylan songs. I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Good stuff, glad I gave this time to listen all the way through, I should probably listen to it again.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Way better than I anticipated all the way through.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Trippy dippy sunshine

Ellington at Newport