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Album	You	Global	Diff
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	5	3.24	+1.76
Bug Dinosaur Jr.	4	2.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live Through This Hole	1	3.29	-2.29
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.65	-1.65
The Wildest! Louis Prima	2	3.53	-1.53
Surfer Rosa Pixies	2	3.5	-1.5
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.4	-1.4
MTV Unplugged In New York Nirvana	3	4.2	-1.2

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Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Totally dig the music and lyrics, vocals are kinda weird. But I guess that's the Talking Head for you. Might be interesting to have an all instrumental version of this album. Got better in later songs. Really enjoyed the unfinished outtakes in the remastered version.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

2/5

Feels like a generic big band album. Not terrible, not outstanding. The Banana Split song is kinda weird...

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Reminds me of high school. Didn't listen to a lot of Elliott Smith, but I can hear the similarities in the bands I did listen too; they obviously had been influenced by him. I think I like his personal sound better now than back in 2000. A good album, and an easy listen, for a dreary day.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Funk nice and early in the morning! It's crazy to think about how many of these songs I know, but never knew it was this band. Overall, the original band of funk doing its original funk thing.

Iron Maiden

2/5

Wow, that was a lot of guitar. Could tell that this was early on and they were still trying to figure out this whole metal sound. Good basics, but needed more depth. Not my jam, but it wasn't terrible.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Pretty good, actually. Definitely can see the influence on other British punk bands that came later.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

Takes me back to Hot Topic in the early 2000s, even though it's 12 years after the album came out. Getting a bit of a Primus vibe from the end of the album. Interesting that Where Is My Mind? sounds nothing like the rest of the album. That's the only really outstanding song.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

5/5

Really, really enjoyed this album. So easy to listen to and I honestly can't believe it came out in 1970! Love the country/Americana/blues vibe. Favorite album so far.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Good old school R&B. Can hear similarities to Sade and Erika Badhu. Nice background music; especially in a Spotify Playlist called Kitchen Swagger.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Love the lyrics and the story telling, not a huge fan of the music. But not bad!

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Pretty solid!

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

So good. So so good. I had heard almost every song as "singles", but in the context of an album, it makes it so much better!

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Pretty damn good. High energy, good beats. 100% reminds me of the early punk days.

Roxy Music

3/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

High school Dani would have loved this band. Kinda punk, emo, but great guitar and melodies; the change in tempo, even going to 2/3 (which very much reminds me of Brand New). I can't put my finger on who was influenced by this band, but I think a lot of my formative music years had been listening to these guys. Maybe a bit of Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, Nirvana, Radiohead...

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

I know the band sounded familiar, but I couldn't place where. It was the first song The Shining, that I remembered! Rest of the album is really good, great background working music.

S&M

Metallica

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Pretty decent live. I never got it Nirvana as much as I wanted to. But can still appreciate their influence on the grunge scene

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Knew all the songs, didn't know they all came from one album! Still not a fan, but good to hear in context.

American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

Good old Green Day. Wasn't a fan back then, not a huge fan now.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

The lyrics and singing were eh. But the instrumentals were spot on. Was never a big fan of Morrissey.

Ramones

3/5

Original punk! Not too bad. It must have been mind blowing to hear this when it first came out, such a different sound than what was going on at the time.

Live Through This

Hole

1/5

Never my cup of tea. Listened out of duty to the project.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Such a wonderful change of pace. Really lovely to listen to while doing school work.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Really interesting to hear these songs in an album context, and not just random singles. Not a bad way to start a Friday.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5