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Album	You	Global	Diff
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.13	+1.87
Sound Affects The Jam	5	3.26	+1.74
The Specials The Specials	5	3.3	+1.7
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.41	+1.59
Sex Packets Digital Underground	4	2.67	+1.33
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J	4	2.91	+1.09
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Megadeth	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	1	3.07	-2.07
The Coral The Coral	1	3	-2
Grace Jeff Buckley	2	3.71	-1.71
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.41	-1.41
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	2	3.39	-1.39
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	2	3.36	-1.36
Ace of Spades Motörhead	2	3.29	-1.29
Risque CHIC	2	3.27	-1.27
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	2	3.21	-1.21

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Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Meh. I've never been into Television. I don't think that they are bad or unskilled, but it's never grabbed me. If I want to listen to New York style new wave from the late seventies, it's going to look for something like early Blondie.

12 likes

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

So nice I listed to it twice. It's only 35 minutes long. I had this, on vinyl. In 1980. Maybe even earlier.

9 likes

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Meh. I prefer "Live Through This". To me, it has a more raw feel and grunge was about "raw".

5 likes

Joan Baez

2/5

Baez isn't, and has never been, my kind of thing. She's too earnest.

3 likes

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

I was obsessed with this album for about two weeks in 1999.

2 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Odelay

Beck

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

I've never really been a Smiths person. I do like the production quality of the album.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

It's much as I remembered it. One good album, then 30 years of WTF.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Of the albums on this list so far, I liked this the most. But I've always liked Hendricks, I had "Smash Hits" when I was in eight grade. I've heard some of these songs (probably) hundreds of times.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

I bought this album way back in the nineties, I've probably listened to it a dozen or more times. It's not my favorite thing, nor was Speak & Spell, which I also owned on vinyl, in the early eighties. I did actually see DM perform once, in 1988.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

There's nothing really wrong with this and I do like 'Fire and Rain', but if I'm listening to albums I'd rather listen to America or Gordon Lightfoot.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

Meh. I have never liked his voice. I do like "King's Lead Hat" and "Baby's on Fire", but those songs are not on this album. It's not a terrible album, it's just not to my taste.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

I have had this album since it came out.

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Joan Baez

2/5

Baez isn't, and has never been, my kind of thing. She's too earnest.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

It's hippy music, but it's classic hippy music.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

I still have my copy of this around the house, somewhere.

The Coral

1/5

I have already begun to forget this album. I don't think it's bad in a technical way, it just doesn't work for me.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

1/5

To me, the most memorable song on the album is "School Girl", which is memorable for the wrong reasons. I'd much rather listen to "Pet Sounds".

Sound Affects

The Jam

5/5

I have liked this album since I first heard it in the early 1980s.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Meh. I'd rather listen to "Songs To Learn and Sing". I have all 11 songs on STLS marked as favorites.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Meh. I prefer "Live Through This". To me, it has a more raw feel and grunge was about "raw".

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Meh. It's violent and depressing.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

I remember "Coconut" being kind-of popular back in the seventies. For me, the stand out track on this album is "Jump Into The Fire". I don't think I'd had heard it until Martin Scorsese used it for the cocaine-fueled meltdown scene in the movie "Goodfellas".

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

This has three of my favorite post-Beatles McCartney songs on it.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Meh. Disco doesn't bother me but it's not usually very memorable, either.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

I've had a copy of this album since it was released.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

Everyone loves the Humpty Dance, but I don't remember listening to the whole album before.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Meh.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

I am pretty sure that I've heard a couple of these songs over one thousand times.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

I think the last time I listened to this entire thing was 1978, when I was in middle school. To me, "Sweet Emotion" is the only memorable track. Meh.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

I thought this was pretty good. I think that pretty much everyone knows "Heads Will Roll", but I hadn't heard any other song. I would rather listen to this again than "Toys in the Attic" again.

Eagles

3/5

Meh. Never loved the Eagles. The quality of the recording is very nice, there's a lot of banjo in there that I never noticed before.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

I had never heard of these guys, so I listened to this with some interest. It was fine, but forgettable.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Wow. I had an actual vinyl copy of this, with the inner sleeve with the window people printed on it, in the late seventies. That's the sort of thing that didn't work well in the CD era and now, in the streaming era, it's not a thing. I liked the album more than I remember liking it.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

Meh. Not my kind of maudlin.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

I liked this more than I guessed I would. It is more old-school than a lot of urban/hip-hop titles that this site suggests. But, I'll still probably never listen to it again.

All The Young Dudes

Mott The Hoople

3/5

Meh.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

I've never been huge on Floyd. I did have a copy of The Wall when I was in middle school. I presume that will pop up on this site, at some point. I'd listen to it again, but I wouldn't go out of my way to do so.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

I liked it more than I thought I would. I liked two more songs, which I vaguely remembered from my childhood.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Queen is OK. The highlight of this is you-know-what. Within the week, I just saw that scene from Wayne's World for the first time in 20 years.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

The last time I listened to whole thing, it was 1978. Actually, I liked this more than I thought I would.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

I've been hearing BH for over 50 years, but I'd never heard the album before.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Meh. In the mid-to-late eighties, I won a copy of this on cassette, as a door prize at a bar. I gave it to my mother.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

My dad had this, on vinyl, back then. Listening now, I'm very impressed by the quality of the recording. I also like the dis on MTV, which they co-opted and ran with. I'd say that this is better than "meh", but not "life-altering".

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

I thought this was pretty good, and I'd listen to it again.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Meh.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Meh. I like Marakesh Express the most of these songs, but it does feel like a Simon & Garfunkel song.

Suede

2/5

Meh. I've already forgotten it.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

I was obsessed with this album for about two weeks in 1999.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

It's fine.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Meh.

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Meh. I feel like I've heard at least one of these songs, perhaps on a movie soundtrack.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

While I like various TH _songs_, I have never been crazy about the albums.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

I had two songs favorited on album. I favorited a new one when listening to the entire thing, for the fist time. So, pretty good but not life-altering.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

So nice I listed to it twice. It's only 35 minutes long. I had this, on vinyl. In 1980. Maybe even earlier.

Risque

CHIC

2/5

Meh. There are lots of albums that have that _one_song_. This is one of those. This was released late late in the disco 'era' and it seems that disco had already run it's course.

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

This isn't for me. It isn't ear-wormy enough.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Keep On Movin'

The Specials

5/5

This album is awesome.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

It's fine, but I don't remember much about it, here on Monday.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

2/5

Meh.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Not my favorite Bowie album, but pretty good.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Meh.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

Pretty good, but songs other than Ace of Spades kind of blur together and a song named "Jailbait' isn't cool.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

I'd never heard of this before. It's reminiscent of Alice in Chains or Jane's Addiction. Still, no song on the album really jumped out at me and I'm unlikely to go back to it, so I'm not giving it a mediocre rating.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

While I've heard a few of these songs a few thousand times, I've never listed to an entire RS album this old. There's nothing wrong with it, but I don't find it memorable-I'd rather listen to a different Stones album.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Meh.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

A blast from the past. Worth listening to every few years.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

Meh.

Iron Maiden

2/5

Meh. Bored.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5