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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.55	+1.45
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.75	+1.25
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	1	3.59	-2.59
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	1	2.89	-1.89
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.64	-1.64
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.58	-1.58
Surfer Rosa Pixies	2	3.49	-1.49
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.4	-1.4
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	2	3.35	-1.35
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	2	3.3	-1.3
The Specials The Specials	2	3.29	-1.29

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Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

It's a Doors record...

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Musically, it was great. But not a memorable album.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Great soul/R&B album. Not a lot of variety but it does what it does really well.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

This was a fun listen. Like being in a jazz club.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Its a classic.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

If you likw grunge its a near perfect album. Turns out I like Soundgarden less than I thought (Aside from a couple amazing songs on thje album).

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Enjoyable Yes album. Some songs are way too long. Two versions of 'I've Seen All the Good People Your Move' is excessive. Too much filler.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

1/5

This was crap.

The Specials

2/5

A good ska album. Not very memorable but it had some good jams

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

The intro music to Paul Simon's Graceland. What more can I say? African music that is funky, approachable, and full of soul.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Not Coldplay's best, but I do love me some Coldplay.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

It's Pearl Jam.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

Too much warbling, not enough substance. This album did nothing for me.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Track 1 & 2: Ok this isn't for me. Track 3: Ok, there's something here. Maybe not an album I love, or something I'd listen to again, but enjoyable if unmemorable. Like Oasis but without the magic.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Free Bird, Simple Man, Tuesday's Gone. An album full of classics and one of the all-time debut records.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Great album with great songs. It would be better if it wasn't all covers.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Definitely weird and not exactly to my tastes. Some songs grabbed me, like 'I'm So Proud'. But there was not much here for me to grab on to.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Not my jam. Mostly noise, and weirdly experimental. There's a 17 minute song about a blowjob with the lyrics "You're busy sucking on my ding-dong. You busy sucking on my ding-dong." For fucks sakes.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Post-punk pop vibes. Not bad, not great.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

A little sad. Overall good but a bit to downbeat and melancholy. The track Lost Cause was a standout.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

It's Pet Sounds. An absolute banger album. That's Not Me is a standout on an album of great music. It changed the game at the time and still holds up.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

One of the greatest from one of the greatest. Poetry to music.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Fun and upbeat. It would be good for a backyard bbq or outdoor chill.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

A little slow, but great for background.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

A great collection of samples but not something I would listen to again. It was kind of boring to be honest.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

At times, bizarre, disjointed, and rough. Still it was weirdly enjoyable at times and always interesting. It felt more "garage" than say, Nirvana but the theme remains the same.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

This was a fun album that acts as a perfect time capsule into late 90's/early 2000s R&B hip hop. It might not be the best example of the genre but it brought me back in a wave of nostalgia.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Not a lot here for me. Background electronic music. Blase

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

A consistently enjoyable album, but it's almost too safe. A great first effort but it lacks the depth, power, and experimentation of their later stuff.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

If you like 90s UK techno, then you must love this album. I do not. It wasn't bad, but it's not my kind of album. It's dirty, it's grungy(good), but it's also repetitive and every song is 1-2 minutes longer than it needs to be.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Great live album, even if the sound quality isn't the best.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

It's stunning, soulful , and beautiful in every way. Her voice is incomparable, the production is perfect and the album is a complete work of artistry. Listening to it now in hindsight gives the album a whole new and tragic patina. It made me mournful for what could of been, but incredibly grateful for what was.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

An interesting look at one of the first "rock operas". It's an interesting album that tells a complete story, but unfortunately it pales in almost every way to Tommy.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

This was a fun album. Beautiful, pop inspired, a little jazzy.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

One of the best albums ever. MJ is a pedophile though.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Good album to half listen to. Late era Elvis, nothing revolutionary here.

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

It's an album. Apparently I listened to most of it but I'm not really sure when that took place. Nothing stood out and I wouldn't go back to it.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

2/5

Another album that just wasn't my style. At times I hated it, at times I was intrigued. A few times it pulled out of the heavy industrial sound to give me something I enjoyed immensely.

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Weird, sad noise. It had some fun parts, but overall, it was very mediocre. The sound quality was fine at best, but the whole album was extremely underwhelming.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

A sad and moving final album

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

A punk album that isn't really punk. It has the sound but not the anger. Although it isn't a bad album it doesnt give me what I need from a "punk" album. I could see these songs being used in a commercial to great effect.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Sad 90s music. An indie band, but not one I would listen to. I can see the appeal but there are many, many bands that do the same thing better.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

The Flaming Lips are a lot less intense than I thought. There were some slow parts, but overall it was an upbeat, tight, and thoroughly engaging album. I would definitely listen to it again. Race for the Prize, A Spoonful Weighs a Ton, and Buggin were particular standouts

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

An album that remains just as good as the first time I heard it. Obviously the guitar is the star of the show but Jimi Hendrix's unique vocals put this album in another stratosphere.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

Experimental jazz is experimental jazz. A collection of 20+ minute songs that weren't particularly enjoyable to listen to.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

This album was funky and fun. A good mix of soul, jazz, funk, with some didgeridoo thrown in for good measure. You can definitely hear the Stevie Wonder influence throughout everything. Maybe not the most original or inventive but enjoyable nonetheless.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

I do love Neil Young, but this isn't him at his best. It's still Neil Young, and it's still better than most, but this is an album best listened to in the background of a dark and dingy dive bar.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Sad folk. For an artist and album I have never heard of before I really enjoyed this one. It reminded me a little of Rufus Wainwright.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Great album with great production. An obvious departure from her first album, with a lot more going on, but it works, and it works well.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

It's a masterpiece.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

It's kind of weird, not totally my style and a little boring at parts. There's no doubt that it is an interesting and musically adept album. Although I did really enjoy the tracks with vocals/lyrics like "I'll Come Running", (unfortunately there were only 5 out of the 14) the instrumental tracks didn't quite work for me and didn't hold my interest.