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Album	You	Global	Diff
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	5	2.84	+2.16
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	5	2.91	+2.09
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Roxy Music Roxy Music	5	3.1	+1.9
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
Tommy The Who	5	3.32	+1.68

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	1	3.9	-2.9
Van Halen Van Halen	1	3.62	-2.62
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	1	3.43	-2.43
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	1	3.33	-2.33
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	1	3.14	-2.14
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	1	3.05	-2.05
Nowhere Ride	1	3.02	-2.02
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	1	3	-2
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	1	2.92	-1.92
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.71	-1.71

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	6	4.5
The Velvet Underground	3	5
Bruce Springsteen	3	4.67
Beatles	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Coldplay	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (24)

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

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The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett · 1 likes

3/5

Always strikes me how much Music Hall influenced these 60s-70s songwriters.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators · 1 likes

5/5

Half punk, half parody, 100% New Yawk. Look at most any pic from CBGB in the era and you'll see these bozos with the Ramones, Blondie, everyone. The I Got You Babe cover is a masterpiece.

1-Star Albums (9)

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The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

The Band

2/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

One of the top 10 rock albums of all time.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Rather dull Prog Rock noodling. A compelling story, but the music loses its way.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Sounds like 3 different records at times -the paranoid tunes are the most striking. Innovative for the time, but hasn't held up well. The live shows must have been rather grim...

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Striking, even now.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Always strikes me how much Music Hall influenced these 60s-70s songwriters.

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

Must we? Although I do respect immensely anyone who stares down the entire music industry and wins.

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Love this one.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Problematic album from a great band.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

2/5

I get it, but good lord that voice...

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Nowhere

Ride

1/5

Trite lyrics, stock shoegaze sound; not much else to recommend it.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Not my favorite Bowie, but still great.

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

So very seminal. Again, the Savage book is great context.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

4/5

Hard to overstate the importance, though.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

I'm not normally into this kind of thing, but Drake was one of the best - beautiful songs, haunted lyrics.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

I loved this record when it came out. Still do.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Kirkville in musical form. Yes, PGG, it brings back 95X, the whole lot. Not in a good way.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

After reading the Savage book, I finally understand how this evolved.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

All over the lot, and really signaled the end of pop for a bit, but so brilliant when it's brilliant.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

I like this a lot more than I remembered. Just feels like the year it was made.

Roxy Music

5/5

What a great record. *The* lodestar for a ridiculous number of punk and new wave bands.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

3/5

Never a jig fan hit gotta give them props for this one.

Van Halen

1/5

Yes, he was a great guitar player. No, I still can't forgive the Kinks cover. Meh

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

1/5

Comes across as trying way too hard to be clever, like a college freshman taking his first Comp Lit class. Only works occasionally.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Too important to ignore. "Emperor's" remains a minor masterpiece.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

How can you go wrong with Truckin' and Sugar Magnolia? Although every Deadhead I know hates the studio albums.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Not the most accessible of their records, but such great writing.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

A great record I've never heard! Super soulful voice.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Always sorta liked this band, but never really center stage for me, but listening now it's pretty clear what a big (and important) break they helped form from punk, prior to the onslaught of shitty synth bands.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

I would give this a million stars if I could. For me, this is a towering achievement, the single greatest album ever recorded, by anyone.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Love Otis, although this album not my fav.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

I'm not much for redneck rock, but Duane Allman was a hell of a blues player.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Not my thing, but, okay sure.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

Aaaaaaahzzzzzzzzeeeeeee! Almost laughable now that this sounded "threatening" back in the day.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

I actually like this. Or maybe I'm just in a mood.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Changes is an all-time great. God, I love Bowie.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

Doesn't move me. However, a group I know did Sweet Child as a barbershop arrangement, which was hilarious.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Forgot how much I like this band.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

It's the Who's Tommy. Nuff said.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

1/5

Wanted to like this. Did not.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Another great record. Love how the opening bars feel kinda like the Stones' one (weak) nod to psychedelia. And then they said "enough with that s$&t".

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Never really listened to him before. Some beautiful things on here.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Hadn't heard this either. Everybody Knows feels like a song for the times, tho it came out in 1988.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Gret record - "Criminal" remains a standout single. One of the strangest performers I've ever seen live - spent 3/4 of the show hiding under her piano.

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Meh at the time, meh now.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Great record, and prescient. "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda," indeed. Fuck Trump and the oligarchs.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Really, really liked this. Fascinating man - take a look at his bio and the artists with whom he's worked.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Some gorgeous things on here.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

What a great writer.

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Had never heard anything but Connected, but I like the rest. A period piece sound-wise, but in a good way.

The Specials

5/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

5/5

Half punk, half parody, 100% New Yawk. Look at most any pic from CBGB in the era and you'll see these bozos with the Ramones, Blondie, everyone. The I Got You Babe cover is a masterpiece.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Never a fan. Gets a 2 only for her influence on others.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Never heard this before, and never heard Zappa instrumentals. Groovy, man.

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

Wacky

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Not a fan myself, but undeniable.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

I like this more than I remember liking it.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Toggling between intrigued and annoyed with this one. Zappa-esque in places. I kinda like it in small doses.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Sadly, All I Wanna Dois really the only good song on this.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Better than I remembered.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Super funky. Ginger Baker rocks too.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Interesting in spots, not a lot of focus tho

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

Yay, power pop!

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Another one to which is give 10,000 stars if I could.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Blur

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Great record by truly great musicians. But so 70s I grew bell bottoms just listening to it. Guitar solo on "Reelin'" is an all-time, 11 of 10 classic.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Respect it, don't love it.

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Better than I remembered

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

1/5

So pointless, so goofy. Blech

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

I love avant-garde weirdness like this.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

A prodigious talent, an all time great. So glad I got to see her a few times BITD. This is a great setting for her in her prime, and the HHTMoon is hilarious.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

1/5

The guitar blues tunes are fun, but overall this is a reminder, esp. "Over the Hills," of why I hate hate hate Led Zeppelin in this period. Ponderous, pretentious, and Plant's horrible, horrible screeching.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Cross

Justice

2/5

Meh

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Saw these 2 live once. Loudest concert I've ever attended. But I do like their work.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

He's great, just mot a big fan of the Hammond organ.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

One had to be in the mood for this, I suppose.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

1/5

Nope.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

1/5

Please god not Coldplay.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Ugh. Especially for what he's become.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

5/5

Love this guy.

Gorillaz

3/5

I had no idea this was the guy from Blur

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Beautiful, tortured, sometimes barely there. I usually don't like this kind of thing but Drake had a special gift.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Never much of a fan but the impact is undeniable.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Hmmm

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Hard to argue with this one. Peak Stones?

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Some amazing playing on this.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Liked this group a lot, esp their full ambient records

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Nothing awful, but so much less interesting than Pure Heroine - Royals was one of the more interesting hit songs of the last decade or so.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

1/5

Nope.

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Never been a fan

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Meh. I know, seminal record blah blah.

Foo Fighters

4/5

I've always liked Grohl - sad I didn't get to see him in one of his pre-Nirvana bands in DC. Weenie Beenie is an actual greasy spoon take out down here in Arlington!

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

God I love this band.

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Gee, wonder where Mumford and the Avett Bros stole all their supposedly "original" material? 🙄 Thirty years earlier and so, so much better.