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Album	You	Global	Diff
Rip It Up Orange Juice	5	2.9	+2.1
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	5	3.09	+1.91
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds	5	3.11	+1.89
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	5	3.22	+1.78
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.29	+1.71
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.32	+1.68
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	5	3.36	+1.64
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	5	3.44	+1.56
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Guitar Town Steve Earle	1	2.81	-1.81
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	2	3.42	-1.42
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.32	-1.32
Make Yourself Incubus	2	3.08	-1.08

5-Star Albums (26)

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Classic hip-hop album. Great R&B vibes with great writing and rap over the beats

1 likes

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Unbelievable album filled with hits. Now I know the sound of Carole King

1 likes

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Only enjoyed a couple of the songs in the album, excluding Paper Planes

1 likes

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The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

A bit too poppy for my taste, but the production and audio engineering is very pleasing to the ear. A few good tunes I enjoyed, but still too much pop for me.

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

More my taste. Raw, punchy, and definitely more punk. Much catchier songs and more to my liking.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Very Black Sabbath-y. Enjoyed it quite a bit and will definitely require a revisit

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Definitely willll require a second listening bit at first go it was very Dylan and enjoyable

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

It was a bit country and folky, but didn't really catch my ear

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Great album by Nick Drake. Not much needs to be said, folky yet still very modern

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Another classic album, not my favorite one, buts it's great

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Another classic, not much more I need to say

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Early Bowie mixed with the Links and Love. Need a relisten

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

A little bit like Beck with a strong 90s rock sound.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

a bit of a spooky, eerie, and melodic electronic ambient music. Has a few good songs, but just come off as weird and eerie for the most part

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Classic hip-hop album. Great R&B vibes with great writing and rap over the beats

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Very pop and a bit too much on the mainstream side of things. Muzac

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

5/5

Very 80s and strong talking head vibes. Some late Clash sounds on there with almost a reggae feel

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Not my favorite VU album, but it has some good music but is a bit too avant garde

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Not my favorite album but it's still the smiths

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

First song was very hip-hop with the heavy drum beat. Rest of it was more mellow Temptations with the doowop, but wasn't as interesting as I would like. Still very enjoyable

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

3.5 stars:. Very early rock but bit generic and nothing really stood out. The production was good. Deserves another listening

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

Not a bad slipknot album but I still prefer their debut

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

4.5 Very ska like, but almost sounds like the precursor to it

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Not really my brand but I can appreciate it's appeal

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Classic Americana Rock with heavy blues influences, but neither too pop-y or too bluesy

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Classic Americana

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Classic album

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Liked it quite a bit. Very crooner like with some nick Cave vibes

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Metallica

5/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Unbelievable album filled with hits. Now I know the sound of Carole King

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Only enjoyed a couple of the songs in the album, excluding Paper Planes

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

I enjoy Drive but I never found this band particularly interesting back when it was popular and even now

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Not my favorite but Frank does it again

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

808 State

2/5

2.5. Very 90s electronica that reminds you of that sound of the 90s. Computerized beats, synthesizers, and airy vocals

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

3.5. Country blues. Surprisingly good and very listenable. Some songs were forgettable but there were some good ones in here

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

2.75. There was one or 2 songs that were enjoyable. But couldn't get into it. Music was good, but nothing blew me out of the water

Fragile

Yes

4/5

3.75

Connected

Stereo MC's

4/5

Really liked this 90s electronic sound.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Suicide

2/5

2.5. it was pretty repetitive and while I liked the sound I got bored of it quickly

Fever Ray

2/5

1,75. There was one interesting song but the rest of them were just not my cup of tea. A weird electronic metal like vibe

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

3.5. Very early nu wave vibes with some music that seems to have influenced the 80s, especially the poppier The Cure

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

3.5 Surprisingly it was very listenable and wasn't ass shrill and avant garde as I thought it would be.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

3.5. reminds 9f the adicts

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

4.5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

Elton John meets Bo Burnham

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

4. Great songs but the last 2 were a bit too avant garde

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Some interesting music on this. Multiple genres and some just outright kooky. Definitely unique.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

5/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Pretty strong 80s vibes. New age and movie like soundtrack tunes

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

5/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

Fred Neil

4/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Third

Portishead

3/5

3.5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5