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Album	You	Global	Diff
New York Dolls New York Dolls	5	3.12	+1.88
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	5	3.26	+1.74
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.44	+1.56
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.55	+1.45
Ramones Ramones	5	3.56	+1.44
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.63	+1.37
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	1	3.4	-2.4
Debut Björk	1	3.38	-2.38
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	1	3.31	-2.31
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	1	3.12	-2.12
You're Living All Over Me Dinosaur Jr.	1	3.08	-2.08
Dare! The Human League	1	3.05	-2.05
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	1	2.85	-1.85
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	1	2.78	-1.78
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	2	3.6	-1.6
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59

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Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading · 1 likes

3/5

Nice discovery. Down to Zero is a standout, along with a couple others. No big misses.

Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes · 1 likes

4/5

First timing hearing most of the album besides Blister in the Sun. Enjoyed it, would listen again. 3.5, rounding up.

1-Star Albums (10)

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American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Favorite of the American series. Iconic cover of Hurt, video is one of the all time best.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Enjoyed it more than I expected. Don’t agree with the high rating it gets on lists like these.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Bubble gum pop from British Invasion. Lacks the weight or grit of other bands from the time. Not a bad listen, good background music. Time of the Season still sounds fantastic. The rest varies.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Great find. I love Back to Black, but never listened to Frank before. Excellent band. Love the track order, funky, complex songs.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Dislike. Hard to get through.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Prog sucks!!

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Blur

3/5

Couple good guitar riffs. Lots of extra noise. I get Blur and Sublime confused for some reason. Oasis is better than both!

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Happened to listen to Odelay and this over the last few days. It’s crazy how different they are. I like Odelay better, but there are some really solid, although somber, songs on Sea Change.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Love this one. Big headspin from Sea Change. Great and under appreciated by the Temptations.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

The xx

2/5

Boring

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

1/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

1/5

Worst yet. Get this off the list.

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Debut

Björk

1/5

Nope

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Could use a half star here. Most of my favorite songs of his aren’t on here.

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Reminds me of Labyrith era Bowie. Creepy sax.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

3.5. Political Science and Leave Your Hat On bump it up.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

So much flute!

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

3.5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Da Capo

Love

2/5

Damn hippies

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Dare!

The Human League

1/5

Hate this

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Not my thing. French helps

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Impressive xylophone. Don’t need to hear again.

Eagles

4/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

4.5. A little too much filler.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

1/5

Movie soundtrack?

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Pretty generic alt rock

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

So long!

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

3.5, liked more than I expected. Fun album!

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Classic. Half the tracks were monster hits. The other half were new to me. A couple clunkers which kept it from a 5. Still can’t hear Bad without thinking of Weird Al in a giant fat suit.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

As good as it gets

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

2/5

Discount Metallica

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Pretty generic R&B.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

2.5. Impressive conga drums. Only have to hear it once.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

3.5, Really like Too Much to Dream Last Night. The rest is good, eclectic garage rock.

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

1.5. Best part is the length

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

Great surprise! Exactly what I hope to have happen going through this list.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Good one, especially for a Friday. Not my favorite Curtis Mayfield, but very good.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

4.5. Classic Sinatra. Doesn’t have too many of his best known songs, but they’re all good.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

More upbeat than I expected. X/O is the only Elliott Smith I heard before and that’s pretty depressing. This is a solid 3. Nothing all that memorable about it, but a decent listen.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

This is one of those albums that takes me back to a specific time and place. UD dorm rooms, Chappelle Show reruns, Strongbad clips, and weekday video game tournaments. All time classic!

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Love how the Temptations went into a funkier direction. I prefer the next couple albums, more Papa was a Rolling Stone, but this is a fun listen.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Enjoyed much more than I expected. Very cool blending of different genres. Clear that this album influenced a lot of 90s bands.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

4.5. Love this era of hers.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

Weird combination of genres. Not a fan of the result.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Was expecting to hate this and was surprised. Some great guitar work.

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

3.5, rounding up. Big Lou Reed fan, but this isnt in the same level as Transformer or Rock n Roll Animal. Some of the lyrics are tough an definitely don’t age well.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

A little disappointed. I like some of their other albums, but this one seems more like generic rock. Not sure why this one ended up on the list.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Surprised that I liked it. Not a Bjork fan, but the music was decent and had a few songs I dug.

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Reminded me of the Queens album we just heard. I think influential, but not great. I can hear a lot of late 80s and 90s bands in the music. But not something I’d come back to.

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

The Stooges

4/5

Classic. Still hits hard.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Rounding up from 2.5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

2.5, rounding up. Didn’t get a good listen, but the vocals were annoying.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Tough listen out of context from old westerns. El Paso is good, but the GD version is better.

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Well done but not my thing

New York Dolls

5/5

Great, underrated album and band! Like a bridge between the Stones and punk. Love it!

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

3.5. I liked it, but some of the songs are a slog.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Future Days

Can

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

California

American Music Club

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

3.5. Good but mostly seemed to be background music for me. Nothing grabbed me.

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Better than I expected. Not a big fan, but a few catchy songs

Pretenders

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Rounding up from 2.5. Blue must just be a band that missed me. I couldn’t get into this beyond a couple songs. And the Spotify version is over 2 hours. Not sure if that includes demos and outtakes, but a lot of the songs seemed unfinished.

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Surprised that I liked this. Not normally an Arcade Fire fan.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Just can’t get into that 80s production.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Ramones

5/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

2.5. Like some of the beats

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

As good as it gets. My only criticism is that it’s too short. I could listen to this for hours.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

4.5 rounding up. A couple covers that I wish were left off. But this is an incredible album. Hurt is the hit and highlight. Emotion that rarely comes through on record.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

I’m not the biggest Elton John fan. But his first 3-4 albums are undeniable, capped off by this one. So many hits and a lot of the album cuts are strong too.

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Never listened to Captain Beefheart before. I’d always heard he was pretty far out there. Some of this album is. But I found a lot of it to be interesting. Some very weird tracks I didn’t like that take it from a 4 to a 3 for me. Overall, a fun listen.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Nice discovery. Down to Zero is a standout, along with a couple others. No big misses.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Not a fan of Rush or prog. 2.5.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1/5

I hated this.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

Nice surprise. I’ve never listened to Aimee Mann that much, but really liked this one.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Hallelujah alone is worth the price of admission. I like his voice, but this time around he reminded me of the guy from Jesus Christ Superstar. Rounding up from 3.5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Voice like a drone.

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

A little long, but fun

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