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Album	You	Global	Diff
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.36	+1.64
Cloud Nine The Temptations	5	3.4	+1.6
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.43	+1.57
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.59	+1.41
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
Abraxas Santana	5	3.72	+1.28
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	4	2.84	+1.16
Tellin’ Stories The Charlatans	4	2.95	+1.05

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	1	3.19	-2.19
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2	4.02	-2.02
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	1	2.97	-1.97
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.92	-1.92
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.71	-1.71
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	1	2.64	-1.64
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	2	3.62	-1.62
The United States Of America The United States Of America	1	2.61	-1.61

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Loveless

My Bloody Valentine · 1 likes

1/5

1991 Recorded at nineteen different studios.

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R.E.M.

3/5

1987 More audible lyrics and harder rock sound. Has a more political undertone.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

2009. Third album from them. Album was leaked so they had to publish it earlier.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

1997. Philosophy of choosing between pleasure seeking and responsible ethical lifestyles. Title borrowed from the philosopher Kierkegaard. Elliott plays everything on this album. Elliott died of 2 (self-inflicted?) stab wounds.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

1969. First full album after they fired their lead singer David Ruffin and replaced him with Dennis Edwards. Style change to psychedelic soul.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

1971. Themes of religion, injustice, society, personal struggles. Was never meant to be a concept album.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

1978. Various archive recordings from earlier tours.

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

1972. Last album before the drummer Bill Bruford quit the band to join King Crimson. They found it challenging to record.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

2/5

2002.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

1997. Third album, after the band got broken up and re-formed but without the guitarist Nick McCabe. Nick McCabe rejoined in early 1997, so they re-recorded several songs to include his guitar parts.

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

2000. Debut studio album.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

1977. The recording sessions took place as the band members dealt with breakups and struggled with heavy drug use (cocaine), both of which shaped the album's direction and lyrics. Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album".

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

1987. Their first use of drum machines after their drummer left for another band.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

1/5

1987. Their first use of drum machines after their drummer left for another band.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

1987. Debut studio album. Most of the album's themes reflect the band's personal experiences and daily life, including their youth.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

1971. Sixth studio album and final major-label album. The last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime (died of heart failure in 1971). Heavily influenced by blues.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

1994. Considered one of the most influential and emblematic works of the 1990s. This concept album chronicles the self-destructive descent of a misanthropic protagonist into madness, dehumanization, and suicide.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

2009. Titled after the Maryland venue of the same name, where Portner and Weitz attended concerts in their youth.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

1973. Their first album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which is considered to have greatly influenced the Berlin School genre.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

2006. Second and final album. Explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity, heartbreak and trauma in a relationship. Died in 2011 from alcohol poisoning.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

1995. Combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

1970. Harrison's first solo work after the break-up of the Beatles. Introduced Harrison's signature slide guitar sound and reflected the spiritual themes present throughout much of his work.

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

1971. McLean dedicated the album to Buddy Holly, one of his childhood icons. Melancoly feel. Wrote the album while his mariage was failing.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

1998. Debut studio album. Former band: Kyuss.

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

1976. Became one of ABBA's most successful albums to date.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

1969. They recorded the album just as they were getting to know each other.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

1994. Second and final album. Catalyst for the eclectic San Diego music scene and the emerging national emo scene of the 1990s.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

1978. Third studio album after two unsuccesful albums. Documents the band's deterioration as well as the singer's declining mental state.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

1978. Experimental rock.

Ramones

2/5

1976. Debut studio album. Took only 7 days to record. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential punk albums of all time, and it had a significant impact on other genres of rock music, such as grunge and heavy metal. Violence, drug use, relationship issues, humor, and Nazism were prominent in the album's lyrics.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

1971. Their best selling album. Inner sleeve has 4 hand drawn symbols that each represent a band member.

Foo Fighters

4/5

1995. Debut studio album. Former Nirvana's drummer (Dave Grohl) wrote the entire album after Kurt Cobain's suicide. Considered to have established the post-grunge genre.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

1974. The band experimented and explored new creativity while making the album.

1999

Prince

3/5

1982. Seen as Prince's breakthrough album.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

1983. Their most commercially successful release.

The Doors

4/5

1967. Debut studio album. Has since been recognized as a landmark of psychedelic rock and one of the most influential albums of the 1960s. Robby Krieger had only been playing the electric guitar for a few months when he was invited to become a member of the band.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

2002. Diverse array of subject matter, mostly melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. Title character is inspired by musician Yoshimi. Not intended to be a concept album.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

1991 Recorded at nineteen different studios.

The United States Of America

1/5

1968. Approach reflecting an anti-establishment, leftist political stance. Album got popular after the band broke up after it's release.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

1972. Known for its wide stylistic range and the strong influence of Delta blues, gospel music, and country rock.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

1972. Known for its wide stylistic range and the strong influence of Delta blues, gospel music, and country rock.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

1999. Written from the perspective of Eminem's alter ego, named Slim Shady. Some songs are true stories.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

1978.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

1988. Praised its production techniques and its socially and politically charged lyricism.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

1959. Sextet. Based entirely on modal jazz.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

1969. Regarded as the first true progressive rock album. Describes the devastating effects of war and conflict, societal alienation and disillusionment, the perceived futility of human efforts against powerful, corrupt forces, unchecked authority and corrupt leadership.

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

1999.

Being There

Wilco

3/5

1996. Was supposed to be a double album.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

2000. Debut studio album The cover art is a collage loosely based on Leonardo da Vinci's drawing Vitruvian Man.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

2002. Second studio album. Considered amongst the best albums in history. The opening track "Politik" was recorded two days following 2001's September 11 attacks.

The Score

Fugees

2/5

1996. No Woman, No Cry is a cover of Bob Marley. Marley's children did the backing vocals. Best-selling hip-hop album of all time.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

1971. Live album.

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

1982. Fourth studio album. The sessions saw the band on the brink of collapse, with heavy drug use, band in-fighting, and frontman Robert Smith's depression fueling the album's musical and lyrical content. Following its release, bassist left the band, and the Cure switched to a much brighter and more radio-friendly new wave sound.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

2008. Earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. Wanted to make an album with a pure hip-hop sound.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

1991. Album considered like a pioneer in french rap music.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

4/5

1995. Britpop. Guitarist said that artists like the Beach Boys and Beastie Boys inspired the album.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

1970. The name of the album is inspired by a book "Demian". Abraxas means "the power above all" and was carved on amulets and gemstones for protection from the evil in certains cultures.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

1959. The album showcased Charles' breakout from rhythm and blues and onto a broader musical stage (more of a swing-pop style).

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

1975. Debut album. Considered a precursor to punk rock (New York scene).