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Album	You	Global	Diff
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	5	2.84	+2.16
Manassas Stephen Stills	5	3.06	+1.94
Stephen Stills Stephen Stills	5	3.17	+1.83
Pornography The Cure	5	3.32	+1.68
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.36	+1.64
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	5	3.38	+1.62
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.64	+1.36
Basket of Light Pentangle	4	2.76	+1.24
Street Signs Ozomatli	4	2.88	+1.12

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Green R.E.M.	1	3.47	-2.47
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2	4.02	-2.02
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.91	-1.91
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	2	3.63	-1.63
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.42	-1.42
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.42	-1.42
Bossanova Pixies	2	3.37	-1.37
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	2	3.37	-1.37
Sulk The Associates	1	2.35	-1.35
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	2	3.21	-1.21

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Artist	Albums	Average
Stephen Stills	2	5

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Purple Rain

Prince · 1 likes

3/5

the album isn’t bad but not my taste. It is so 80s. funky groovy rock is too much whimsy for me

1-Star Albums (3)

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Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Groovy, good tunes, not too heavy or fast but fun and good vibes

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

Decent, pretty normal alt/punk sounds for its time

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

very spunky, but not as exciting a sound as I would’ve liked

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

classic. jammy and groovy, good album for a long drive

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

good stuff. indie esque, doesn’t get too fast a tempo

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

felt way too mellow even for radiohead, they have better albums

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

sounds like a video game ost in the best way

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Frank’s voice is good but the instrumentals feel very bare and lacking. Very overrated album imo

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5/5

classic rock! a lot of songs I’ve heard before so I can now put a name to the songs. very nostalgic

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

very 80s. a few hits but other than that not a crazy album

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

good ass rock. angsty and dark, music that I would walk down the stairway to hell with

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

not much pizzaz but isn’t a bad album, just not good

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Very raw and emotionally vulnerable, but the music itself didn’t excite me too much

Green

R.E.M.

1/5

painfully generic. very plain rock

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

soulsy, rocky, bluesy. pretty solid album

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

nice tunes, good background music

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Good punk vibes. angsty and cool singing

Cut

The Slits

2/5

just an ok punk album

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

soundtrack to every 80s movie type beats.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

funky, a few good songs but there were a few that kind of blended in the background

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

chill folk music. feels a bit too barebones for me. almost like background music in an open world game sometimes

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

good classic rock. a lot of classics on this album, and some that don't really keep up with the rest. still good tho

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Groovy hiphop

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

chill rock album. folky but doesn’t lack in excitement

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

5/5

the keyboard and guitar on this album feels, ELECTRIC. the end of the album takes it slow and lets you soak in tbe beauty

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

with all the hype I hear around Fiona Apple, I had high expectations. Not really a fan of her singing style

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

damn near perfect album. it takes you through kendrick's struggles with peer pressure and life in compton as a young man. it has bangers, beautifully written stories, and tragedy. a must listen

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

run of the mill 80s music. poppy disco stuff. not my thing

The Band

3/5

good folk album to listen to on a road trip

Stephen Stills

5/5

peak folk rock. Core rock instrumentals without getting too loud. amazing album from start to finish

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

background club music. its fine, just not my taste

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

The electric sounds in this album has a romantic feel to it somehow. Very calming to listen to, and the fee vocals in it are nice

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

fantastic piano pieces from start ti finish

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

good rock/metal

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

good punk album. the instrumentals were better than I expect from a punk album

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

classic but doesn't hold up to today's standards imo

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

album that is carried by the one hit, that doesn't hold up to other classic rock songs.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

fun album with 80s pop and interesting instrumentals

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

daft punk is of course an all time great. this album presents a good baseline for house and techno. the beats are catchy. albeit one note.

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

good folk/rock album

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

sounds like I’m listening to a rookie band that hasn’t figured out how to do vocals yet

Queen II

Queen

4/5

cohesive album from start to finish. classic queen sound, an album that has none of the hits I've heard before but all the songs are equally good

The Specials

3/5

Light hearted punk album. A lot of instrumentals in each song sound the same, almost gives me beach vibes, but that's not necessarily a bad thing

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

groovy album with a variety of sounds between songs. easy listen but not jaw dropping, would give a 3.5

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

melodramatic singing in my opinion. he has a kind of theater kid voice for some reason. a few good songs like "Oh, California", but the rest of the songs seem like it's teasing/progressing to a big moment, but that moment never comes

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

very gloomy sound, but I don’t hate it. Songs have good progression. bluesy, trancy, and rock all in one

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Having so many classic on one album is an impressive feat, especially for their first album. But because of that, I have high standard for every song on a Led Zeppelin album, and there are two that don't hold up to the rest, stopping it from being a perfect album

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Lana's voice is captivating the whole way through, which is what I think carries the album. It can distract you from the songs sounding a bit too similar. I enjoyed the whole album, so I can't really give it low marks. But it would be nice to hear more variation

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Didn’t feel exciting, not bad but not good

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Just simple amazing classic soul/R&B with a lot of rock undertones too. It's weird to hear so many songs that have been covered over the years.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

decent album. ensemble singing slow jam rock

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

the classic rock n roll is good but it’s very instrumentally focused and I found myself waiting for my generation and magic bus to start. the vocals are great so its a shame that its limited here

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

First time listening to this genre of music, it’s a nice blend of jazz, acoustics, maybe latin dance? Either way, Youssou does a good job on vocals. Short album, but it’s a nice listen the whole way through

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

dad rock basically. its not bad, but it’s kind if just run of the mill what you expect

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

not my type. over the top death metal with a lot of loud noise that doesn’t sound well thought out

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Generally fun, groovy beats with high vocals but not my taste generally

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

latin album that makes me wanna rock out and dance it’s super fun

Cross

Justice

4/5

such a fun catchy electric album. a lot of the beats I’ve heard before in covers as well. exciting all the way through

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Never super got into Nirvana, or so I thought. This album started and I already knew all the songs. It’s impressive how many classics are in here, but a few stragglers that don’t keep up

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

exactly what I expect from this kind of album. well-done mix of soul and funk

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Amazing display of sending a political message through art with this album. They made an album you can bump to while also speaking on the American social and political climate in America at the time, although a lot of it still applies today. Chuck carries the whole thing, Flava Flav doesn’t add enough for me to consider him part of the music

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

chill folky music with a touch of fantasy story soundtrack vibe to it. both the male an female singers carry their weight.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Eh, if you like American oldies sound of music, you'll probably like this. The southern twang never appeals to me, but I don't think the substance is necessarily bad

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

amys voice is good but I don’t like the sound of it personally. feels like a less exciting lady gaga

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

First introduction to samba and it was so fun the whole way through. Really groovy but chill at the same time. You can feel the culture through the instrumentals and his carries you through the whole thing

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

really great folk stuff here. but with there being two discs it’s just so long (2 hours) and can’t really listen to the whole thing in one sitting. i’d say half is good and half is okay, but it leads me to skip some songs that are 9 minutes of instrumentals

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

not terrible, but not good. The grandiose singing and pianos get very ranty and I'm never sure when the songs are gonna end. It feels fun tho so I'd give it like a 5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

cool chill little album of rock. nice listen but nothing too crazy

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

the album isn’t bad but not my taste. It is so 80s. funky groovy rock is too much whimsy for me

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

weird album. i grew up always thinking radiohead was a rock band, but this is more just ambient kinda music. It’s cool, but not anything exciting

Manassas

Stephen Stills

5/5

Another great album from Stills. It’s exactly what I imagine from folky rock. I think all of the songs are more than listenable. Album is a bit long, but other than that it’s good