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Album	You	Global	Diff
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.66	+1.34
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.71	+1.29
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.51	-1.51
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	2	3.29	-1.29
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	2	3.23	-1.23

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

**** Sunday, 3 May, 2026 Baltimore-Washington Airport terminal I am waiting for my flight back to Detroit after Maddie Purdy’s first communion, and sitting in a cafe, listening to Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 1969 album *Everybody Knows This is Nowhere*. This album is both eternal and futuristic. I was lucky to see Neil Young with Crazy Horse two years ago. They played “Down by the River” and “Cinnamon Girl”. This is an incredible album. It sounds fantastic in all the ways Neil Young is fantastic.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

An amazing album, with some truly transcendent tracks. Shelter from the storm is in the conversation for the greatest song ever. But a couple clunkers (Jack of Hearts, Big Girl) bring it down a notch. I’d do 4.5 if possible.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Tuesday, 5 May, 2026 This album has some great tracks, and clearly reveals a band with high energy. They must have been wild to see live in this early era.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Wednesday, 6 May, 226 Brian Eno does industrial. Some intense emotions that I might have felt from the ages of 15-22. The second half is much stronger.

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

The xx

3/5

Friday, 8 May, 2026 Low fi in every way. Minimalist to the extreme. Several memorable songs. No real clunkers.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Saturday, 9 May, 2026 Great production. Silky smooth tunes. She sounds like a lounge singer. “Constant Craving” was a hit for a reason! The rest is good.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

Sunday, 10 May, 2026 Not one track stood out above the rest. The most interesting part was the end of the last track. Other QotSA albums are more interesting. Them Crooked Vultures is also more interesting.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Monday, 11/5/26 Memphis soul in full force. Amazing vocal performances and the backing band is stellar. Hi Rhythm band directed/produced by Willie Mitchell is on point. The title track is what everyone obviously remembers, but track two, “La La for You” is the standout.

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Tuesday, 12 May, 2026 Screaming Trees have perfected the classic Seattle grunge sound into a melodic dulcet tone. And as the swan song to the true grunge era, this album is in the par example category.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Wednesday, 13 May, 2026 This was an amazing meander through the minds of three young men who have a hilarious sense of humor and corrupt politics.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Thursday, 14 May, 2026 Genre defining. Rips your face off from the first note and Axl gutter scream (“Oh my god!”). What an album.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Friday, 15 May, 2026 Pistons win game 6! This album, which has been the soundtrack to many of my drives up north, is in the pantheon of great rock albums. The opener, “Cherub Rock”, will knock your socks off, and Billy Corgan doesn’t let up.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Saturday, 16 May, 2026 Great album. Knopfler is in true form as a master band leader. Side one is full of songs you’ve heard 1,000 times, but side two is great!

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Sunday, 17 May, 2026 Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos push this record into upper echelons. Screaming Japanese girls brings it down a bit. Some legendary recordings.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Monday, 18 May, 2026 The hits are amazing: “Do It Again,” “Dorty work”, and “Reeling in the years”. Otherwise, well produced.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Tuesday, 19 May, 2026 Amazing voices. Nile’s Rogers’ production and direction of Chic as backing band is great. That Philly Sound!

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

Wednesday, 20 May, 2026 This album is garbage. If it were just instrumentation and samples of Tarantino movies, it’d be higher. Rap/Rock is a grotesque genre, and is basically anti music.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Thursday, 21 May, 2026 Chris Squire on the bass carries this album. Howe gets the attention, and Wakeman is great on the keys, but it is the rhythm section of Squire and Bruford.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Friday, 22 May, 2026 The hits are great! The rest is…eh?

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Saturday, 23 May, 2026 I’m actually offended by the inclusion of this album. It makes me question this entire project. This album is absolutely not one any human should ever listen to. If I could give it. What I’ve stars, I would.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Sunday, 24 May, 2026 Solid album. I’d listen again. But it didn’t blow me away. Better albums in the same genre.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Monday, 25 May, 2026 Memorial Day Amazing album. Radiohead re define themselves yet again. The release of this album is also revolutionary. I’ve listened to this album probably 20 times before and I still heard new things.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Tuesday, 26 May, 2026 In between their two magnum opuses (Dark Side… and The Wall) Pink Floyd release a masterpiece.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Wednesday, 27 May, 2026 Killer beats and slick rhymes! You can’t go wrong with Missy Elliott and Timbaland. A sound that worked to define the era.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

Thursday, 28 May, 2026 Interesting. Good atmosphere. Very Britain, late 90s. I’d listen again.