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Album	You	Global	Diff
Odelay Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
White Blood Cells The White Stripes	5	3.65	+1.35
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.69	+1.31
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	1	3.59	-2.59
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.51	-2.51
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	1	3.37	-2.37
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	1	3.03	-2.03
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches Happy Mondays	1	2.99	-1.99
The Who Sell Out The Who	1	2.99	-1.99
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.99	-1.99
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	1	2.94	-1.94
Infected The The	1	2.93	-1.93

5-Star Albums (6)

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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast · 1 likes

4/5

I thought this was going to be a 5 but after intently listening to it all I think it ultimately suffers from being a double album.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra · 1 likes

3/5

Really unusual but not bad. Very different than what I would ever listen to but that’s the point of all of this!

1-Star Albums (21)

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Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

2/5

Songs are too long. I remember the singles.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Loved the jazzy Twisted.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Didn’t realize her advocacy especially at the time

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

1/5

Couldn’t get through it unfortunately.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

The long instrumentals at the end threw off the overall album

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

1/5

Oakenfold remixes slightly improved, but not by much.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Solid Marley

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Classic. 2 Marley albums in a row!

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

I need to listen again with the tracks separated instead of two long halves of the album.

Cross

Justice

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

1/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Solid West coast 90s gangsta rap. Needs to be considered in the rap context of the time.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Trying not to let nostalgia tint the view of the album, but it’s really solid. Billy’s voice is Billy’s voice, but I really enjoyed listening to this.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Slightly biased because I remember this, but even with nostalgia glasses I think this is a really good capture of the 90s alternative music at the time. 5*

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Did not grab me as much as some of the other albums. Also. 3 Bob Marley albums in my first two weeks of this challenge.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

1/5

I do remember the single, but I cannot get through this one.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Trying to look at this without knowing it’s the Stones to see how it sounds.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Better than I expected. I recognized some of the songs as singles.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

I think she has significant talent. The taint of Puff Daddy is affecting my view of the album as a whole with the first track Honey sounding very much like it could have been on a Bad Boy compilation cd at the time.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

I like this style of jazz

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

The Stone Roses

2/5

Didn’t stand out for me. Didn’t know them at the time either.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Great voice. Album is a little slow overall

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

I appreciate where this was for punk in 1980. His voice reminds me of the B52s and I couldn’t shake it.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

This makes me want to listen to more REM. I can see how they could have impacted other music going forward.

Ananda Shankar

1/5

I couldn’t get through it.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

I have a hard time separating the art from the artist knowing what we know. Not columbine, the character and personal behavior.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Really surprised how much I liked this.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Slow and bluesy.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

I’ve heard Layla before, but I never knew the artists. Very talented blues guitar.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Hadnt heard the original Heroes before

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Talented but slow paced

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Really good. Never sat through it front to back before.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

Sounds like he is talented, could not get through it however, especially live.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

I see why it’s rated so highly.

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

1/5

Quirky concept. I appreciate the lore but couldn’t get through enough.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

Very talented, glad to have listened.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

I can feel some of the familiarity and nostalgia bias, but I’ve never listened start to end to this album.

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

I would have liked this in 2003 during my indie Shins era. Surprised I never heard it before.

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

2/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Infected

The The

1/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

First half is really interesting. It reminded me of the White Stripes.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

Really different sound.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

1/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Exposure/nostalgia bias is in play but I remember the album.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Adele

3/5

Generational talent. I think the songs got over played which harms the overall draw of the album presently.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Some songs carry the album more than others. More enjoyable blended genre than I expected.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

My second Funkadelic album in the challenge. I may need to revisit some of my first reviewed albums when all is said and done.

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

I saw someone online say that this album is to my generation what the Eagles were to the generation before.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

1/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Better than I thought it would be but it’s just not for me.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

1/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

1/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

I thought this was going to be a 5 but after intently listening to it all I think it ultimately suffers from being a double album.

The Modern Lovers

3/5

So this phone call today concerns Hippie Johnny…

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

I read the entry and the artistic regard, but it’s very difficult to listen to.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Needs to be evaluated given the time it was released.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Really unusual but not bad. Very different than what I would ever listen to but that’s the point of all of this!

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

Second Morrissey album in my first 90 days. Apparently, I am not a fan.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Debated on this one but I feel comfortable as a 5. I think this holds up better than others of that same time period, and is an overall tight cohesive album.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Funny to read about, but I couldn’t.