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Album	You	Global	Diff
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
The Clash The Clash	5	3.53	+1.47
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.6	+1.4
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	5	3.74	+1.26
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J	4	2.9	+1.1
The Contino Sessions Death In Vegas	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Permission to Land The Darkness	1	3.13	-2.13
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	1	3	-2
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	2	3.93	-1.93
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	2	3.76	-1.76
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	2	3.55	-1.55
1984 Van Halen	2	3.49	-1.49
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.41	-1.41
Wild Wood Paul Weller	2	3.09	-1.09

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The Clash

5/5

Starting with one I've heard before. Fuck this is a good album.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Apparently even when I listened to a lot of Queen it was only in their middle years! I dig how theatrical this is. I've listened to "Bohemian Rhapsody" too many times and can't stand it now: this is like what if that, but not something you've heard three hundred times!

War

4/5

Apparently I may have listened to like one U2 song ever? I thought I had heard "Sunday Bloody Sunday" but I may have only heard covers. Solid rock album. I like the things they do with drums/guitars at parts.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

2/5

I'm glad I heard it, and I wouldn't mind listening again, but I wouldn't seek it out

1984

Van Halen

2/5

I'm glad I heard it, and I wouldn't mind listening again, but I wouldn't seek it out

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Apparently Crazy Horse is a band, not a guy! I should listen to Americana...

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

I have never heard of Paul Weller! Who is this? Not really my cup of tea. Sounds like something I'd listen to in a coffee shop and not mind I guess. That's harsh. But this is fine. It's fine?

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

"I Wanna Sleep With You" reminds me of Bob Mortimer's songs on Last One Laughing UK but I don't mean that in a bad way. Mostly speak singing but I like it. There's just so much music! I can't imagine seeking this out again.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

I mean damn, "Wonderwall" is actually a damn good song huh. With this project I've worried that everything has been "whatever I guess it's fine", so maybe the problem was me. But this one resonated! I can see why this is a classic.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

These song titles are for a prog album, but with the length of hyperpop or something. Oh shit, "Patterns" sounds awesome. I think I may have found vocal forward music I like? It just has to be folk?

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Yesterday: "I just need folk" Today: "not like that I guess" I actually don't dislike it like I thought I did at first. I've never heard of Devendra Banhart and it sounds very weird! Spooky folk. Not really my jam (though I bet I would have loved it in ~2013 or whenever my Daytrotter days were)

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

I would have LOVED this in my CIRRIE days. I still like it! What a mix of styles.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

Beach Samba... de amigo?? I've seen samba referenced a few times recently so I'm glad I'm listening to a classic. It's, you know, fine? Not what I'd want to listen to but very interesting as a historical document. I guess. "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice" was a jump scare with a kid singing! (the real joy was Apple Music's samba/bossa nova/jazz mix it played afterward!)

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

I don't think I'm finishing this listen on Friday. Lots of music here! I think I've listened to this album before but don't remember it. I need to listen to more Prince, this rules.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

I don't love the fake live album thing. I did do leo-pointing at "Piece of My Heart"

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Some of these are like oh hey I actually might like this sort of stuff. And then sometimes it is... not that. On the whole, absolutely not my jam.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

Not on Apple Music for some reason? Sample related I assume. Solid old school hip hop.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

"Why am I listening to this?" But then "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" comes on and I'm like OH, this is THEM. Scratch my "how have I never heard any of this if it's so important" response! Fun enough I guess but I think I'm set on Queenlikes.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Yeah, this is great! Obviously older but this is the sort of thing I wanted from this project. I spent a lot of the time reading about him on Wikipedia. Weird guy!

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

2/5

Feeling out of it while hacking. Not my usual but she's certainly talented.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

I knew of Siouxie but hadn't heard anything. This is good! It sounds like something ahead of its time.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

I hadn't heard this album! Talking Heads are so damn good.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

I've been meaning to listen to this again anyway. I remember hearing "Swimming Pools (Drank)" on All Songs Considered forever ago. I was in front of Delta Sonic, either biking or walking. What was I doing up there? Maybe driving and I was getting gas... A lot of this reminds me of "A Life In the Day Of Benjamin Andre" in good ways.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

I can see why this is a classic. I'm famously not a huge vocal person but this works for me. I like it better than early Beatles, I think? I'm also a sucker for being able to hear bass lines and "I Want Her She Wants Me" has that in spades. Oh, and "This Will Be Our Year"! Yeah, good album.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

If I had heard it earlier I'd have liked it more. It's fine! Was distracted listening during Hackathon too...

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

I wonder if I would think this was solid 5/5 bangers if I hadn't listened to it before. I like it way more than yesterday's.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

I hadn't heard this at all! Very good stuff.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

I originally thought I would like this more than I did, and kinda came around in the end (okay partially related to their politics). It's a rock opera, but besides two songs (the one leading into Wallace and then Wallace) I didn't really know if they were related. Wikipedia didn't have a summary! Glad I heard them though.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Great album! I hadn't heard it but really dig it. Lots of range in styles too.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Oh hell yeah! This album rules.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

I mean... it's OK Computer.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

I'll be honest, when I first saw "pop" I was like ugh I guess... but this is great. This probably would have been one of my albums of the year when I was in my EMA/Courtney Barnett era, which I never really left. "The Architect" in particular is pretty great. I don't really know why this is such a classic that it's on the list, but I'm really glad I heard it.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

...eh? I guess I can see how this would be amazing but now it just sounds like generic rock.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

"Love's In Need Of Love Today": okay this album won't be my thing but I'll listen anyway "Have A Talk With God" starts: what IS this (complimentary) This is great! Lots of styles. And songs that have been reused in the 90s?

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Heck yeah, this was fun. Also apparently the Soulfly cover was hidden in the back of my brain.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

He sings about cocaine kind of a lot, huh I think I do like Johnny Cash. I didn't think I did for a while.

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

I was ready to be like "ugh more folk-y stuff, after Johnny Cash?" And it is, but damn this is good. Bridges the gap between folk and classic rock in a way that makes total sense for a record from 1974.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

I need to listen to Wu Tang more, damn

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

I prefer other albums of theirs but damn this is good

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

1/5

Okay now I'm a bit done with southern influenced stuff. I like "90s woman rock" but would kinda just prefer to listen to Alanis Morissette.

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

I really love her voice. By the end it was kind of too much of a good thing but that may have been my headspace.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

I've never heard of these folks! Perfectly serviceable but I don't think I needed to hear it before I died?

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Has some good tracks but not my favorite Bowie. I should listen to more Bowie.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Holy fuck what an album. I had only heard half the songs but that's because half the songs are CLASSICS.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

Okay! I had heard of Death in Vegas but had no idea what music they made. This is nice. I kinda wish I had time to get deep into them, Massive Attack style.