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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers	5	3.06	+1.94
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	5	3.11	+1.89
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	4	2.56	+1.44
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.56	+1.44
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	4	2.69	+1.31
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.85	-2.85
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	1	3.47	-2.47
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	1	3.29	-2.29
Faith George Michael	1	3.27	-2.27
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	1	3.17	-2.17
Screamadelica Primal Scream	1	3.17	-2.17
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	1	3.11	-2.11
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	1	3.07	-2.07
The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds	1	3.04	-2.04

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	2	5
Radiohead	4	4.25

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
George Michael	2	1

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Artist	Ratings
Beatles	5, 4, 2, 3

5-Star Albums (12)

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The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Pop rap. Good music, guy is a great producer and can assemble a good beat/sound. The ego though, dude - just shhhh... If I could give a 1/2 star I'd error a bit higher - as is, enjoy your 2 stars, schmuck.

10 likes

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Unexpectedly good. This was a great find - very electronicish, Deltron3030-esque, perfect future-forward sound. if I could give 4.5 stars I would.

3 likes

Sail Away

Randy Newman

1/5

F'n Randy Newman... just... no. Even I have some standards.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (19)

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OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Still don't like the skits and they're part of the tracks, so no skipping them.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Jonathon Coulton def was influenced by Nilsson. Show-tunsey. Feel good.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

Those last few tracks are just amazing. I always forget how much I love this album.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Strongly suggest the Deluxe Edition as it has a lot of rough cuts, backing tracks, and other behind the scenes. That rough mix of Heartbreaker... hnnng

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Nope. Not in the mood for drunk John Denver...

Faith

George Michael

1/5

Track 1 - yeah yeah, I remember, 80's cheese, guitars are nice and jingly. #2. ungh. trying not to skip. 5.5 minutes? skip. #3. 9 minutes of nope. skip. #4. Look, I don't like George Michael. I didn't like Wham. Pop garbage getting a 1 star.

Common

4/5

Wow. This was unexpected - I've never heard of Common before, but his style is square in that intelligent lyrical/spiritual/social questioning style that really does it for me. Sounds east coast style, but Chicago in origin. Really enjoying this. Going to listen a 2nd time and then branch out to his other albums. This will be going into the liked songs for future rotation.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

1/5

No. I don't think I will. Hard pass because the music sucks.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Never listened to Eno before. The synth sounds are a lot more raw than I would have imagined. He apparently likes bass guitar. It's... interesting, and ahead of it's time, but this is not what my decaffeinated brain needs this morning.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

This takes me back to freshman year at UC when I first discovered NIN. Staying up late, the smell of gesso in the drawing studios, the tagged stairs and hallways in Edwards Hall, bombing down Route 32 on the weekends in my old Plymouth... Hard to separate the memories from the music.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Motorhead is one of those bands I need to divorce the music from the life experiences and types of people I knew then who listened to Motorhead. Solid sound, they lyrics are... well, they compliment the music and I'm not listening to them for content. Just enjoying the drive and grit and rawness. Perfect to push you through. Very similar to ZZ Top. ...ok, except the song Jailbait. WTF Lemmy?

The Clash

4/5

Classic. Not a real deep, meaningful album in general, but this is at the heart of so much of my favorite music.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Why am I not more excited about Sonic Youth? I know I listened to them back in the day, this is music I like, but.. I've always just been 'meh' on them. I'm forcing myself to give them a studied listen this time. Still, I know they are important for when/where they are in the genre... just no spark for me.

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

This is such an easy listen. One of the main groups that got me really interested in 'Indie' music back in the day - when I found them I was going through my divorce and needed something upbeat and different than the pop crap I was used to consuming. 'Last Night' and especially 'Hard to Explain' were like a gateway drug. 4 stars for helping to pull me out of a pit and keeping me company on my drives back and forth to Phila in the early 00's.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

I should listen to the lyrics. I do like it though.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

It's 13 degrees. Reggae should make me feel better - I may not be in the right headspace for this album. I haven't heard a lot of these songs and pretty sure I've never listened to this album before, but I typically do like ol' Bob. Not bad.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

eh... meh.

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Enjoyable. I recognized several songs on the album but couldn't remember the band's name.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Technique

New Order

3/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

It's a solid album. Bruce knows how to make good music with meaningful lyrics, but it's heavy - very heavy and not an easy listen. If this is on in the background, you can't listen to the lyrics or it immediately comes to the foreground.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Drugs may be bad, but they sound good. "Peace Frog" intro riff - Nirvana anyone?

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

meh

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

This was a fun listen. Dave got it right, this is awesome cookout background music.

The Modern Lovers

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Relaxing, good for a Monday morning.

Cypress Hill

4/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

2/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Thank God I've matured some since 1992...

Metallica

3/5

Yes it's a great album, and pivotal in my musical experience early on... but man is it way over-produced. There's no room in the sound, it's like they just punched the loudness up to 11 and walked out the door.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

It's funny how the tracks on this album I don't remember seem to have influenced the Beastie Boys. I totally wore this cassette out as a kid listening to certain songs.

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

There was an album that went along with that song? Honestly though, that would have been fairly forward given when it came out. Sound was ahead of it's time within the electronic sphere...

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

Yeah, didn't like it then and it hasn't grown on me since.

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

1/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

1/5

F'n Randy Newman... just... no. Even I have some standards.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

1/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Wild Gift

3/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

2-3 good tracks on here, couple real flat ones too...

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

This album is kind of a guilty pleasure... I'm sure it doesn't rank amongst the most critically acclaimed, but it gave me comfort through some really rough times. I didn't find it for a couple years after it came out and I was trying to finish out my thesis while limping forward a failing marriage - despite that I can still listen to this album and it feels like a warm blanket.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

My spotify kept messing this up so I missed a few tracks (just refused to play) - but still good

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

1/5

meh

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

Full of cringe and those baggy mall-goth pants.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Surprised I enjoyed this as much as I did - never gave Dylan a critical listen before. 4 stars, Bobby. Well done.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

1/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

This just might be a 5 star album...

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Relaxing, but not as good as their later work. Decent album though.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Ice was trying to tell us even back in '92...

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Fred Neil

2/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

Not the pinkiest Floyd

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

I did not expect that... good album.

Foo Fighters

4/5

This is just a great album

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

I wish I could give this another half star... 4.5 stars

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Love some good electronica. Takes me back to 2000/01 when I was crawling the networks in college and finding all kinds of good stuff. A much needed balm to the rushed end of the week.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Just couldn't... JBMH is a good song though

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

I've listened to this enough in the 90's. I think once was too many.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

1/5

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

This is just so good, it just carries the right tone and is fairly easily divorced from it's initial meaning - perfect for projecting your own mood onto and letting it carry you. Maybe another elusive 5 star

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

1/5

Not really my thing

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

1/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Microshift

Hookworms

2/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

meh

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Very very very very good electronica.

Being There

Wilco

4/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Elastica

3/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Tical

Method Man

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

69 actual songs... and only one that's decent.

2112

Rush

4/5

Ramones

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Unexpectedly good. This was a great find - very electronicish, Deltron3030-esque, perfect future-forward sound. if I could give 4.5 stars I would.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Perfection.

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Talvin Singh

1/5

meh

Third

Portishead

3/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

5 stars.

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Memories of school, jean jackets wreaking of palmals with ballpoint pen inscribed band logos... I didn't like the people back then that liked this music, but I liked the music.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5