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Album	You	Global	Diff
Opus Dei Laibach	5	2.39	+2.61
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	5	2.69	+2.31
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	5	2.84	+2.16
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.84	+2.16
Greetings From L.A. Tim Buckley	5	2.86	+2.14
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Loretta Lynn	5	2.97	+2.03
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	2.99	+2.01
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	5	3.05	+1.95
Bandwagonesque Teenage Fanclub	5	3.05	+1.95

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Illmatic Nas	1	3.6	-2.6
Stardust Willie Nelson	1	3.4	-2.4
1977 Ash	1	3.03	-2.03
Out of Step Minor Threat	1	2.92	-1.92
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	2	3.61	-1.61
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	2	3.42	-1.42
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	2	3.35	-1.35
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.34	-1.34
The Predator Ice Cube	2	3.26	-1.26
High Violet The National	2	3.24	-1.24

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	5
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Metallica	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Willie Nelson	2	1.5

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Popular Reviews

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

I understand my father-in-law so much better now

40 likes

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Finally, my LAN is set up, day-glo Ethernet cables connecting the humming servers everyone had brought over, and everyone has found the patch to Starcraft allowing for local play. Thump thump thump thump diggy thump thump thump thump diggy goes Second Toughest in the Infants, as we enter a Mountain Dew-powered trance state...

15 likes

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

There aren’t words.

9 likes

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

As my black candles burn in my otherwise pitch black room, illuminating the slow-motion rose petals falling from flowers, leaving only thorns, I purse my lips without smearing my dark purple lipstick, and I almost feel a tear well up on the corner of my heavily shadowed eyes, but I hold back, as I don't want to smear the ankh I drew with eye shadow under it. This captures 80s teen angst perfectly.

8 likes

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

A shot of raging hormones.

8 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

We were surprised how many great songs were on this album.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

We enjoyed it well enough. A good album for a sunny May evening.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

We didn’t care for this album. It sounded like the artist was still figuring out their voice, and frequently defaulted to emulating their musical heroes. Occasionally his point of view shone through, and those moments were better.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

We appreciated how important this album is, but we likely won’t listen to it again. It sounds like the intro to every 80’s sitcom.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

This seems a lot more experimental. It’s also very precise. Sometimes it feels like they want to be making other types music, but they’re stuck making Beach Boys albums.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

This is one of the best albums we have ever heard. Impossibly cool.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Loved it.

The Band

5/5

Always a consistent point of view, but never felt one note or stuck in a box. A lot of songs we like sound like this- you can really hear how massively influential The Band is.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Half cabaret and half pop. We disagreed on the rating- e adored it, j felt neutral.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

10/10. Taught me a lot about science.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

If you had to give one best example of 20th century American song writing, this would probably be it.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

There aren’t words.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Sometimes a little funky, sometimes a little jazzy. You can hear the birth of a genre here, and it’s really exciting because it’s free form and fun.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

A shot of raging hormones.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Like listening to a long, excellent jam session.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Great punk album.

1977

Ash

1/5

This sounded like so many different artists. As each song came on, we looked at each other and said, “oh, this reminds me of a different song by a better band that I really like.” It might be more listenable with less whiney vocals. But unfortunately, those vocal choices were made and be taken back. We agreed that if it came onto the alt rock radio station, we would change the channel. Occasionally, we mistook it for the ads on YouTube.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

5/5

This was incredible! How have I never heard this before?! It’s funny, creative, an absolute joy to listen to.

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Glad we listened to it, wouldn’t listen to it again. What was here was great, just very repetitive and about twenty minutes too long.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

An interesting snapshot of what was and wasn’t offensive at the turn of the century. Technically brilliant, but the schtick starts to run thin rather quickly.

Elvis Presley

5/5

Well that was a god damned delight.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Truly lovely, and not our thing.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

3/5

This was a really cool idea for an album, but we could have gotten the concept in one song. The individual tracks were sort of repetitive for the most part and did not stand up on their own with one or two exceptions.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

What a great album! We had never heard of her before. Very innovative, and reminiscent of Bjork.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

This sounds like a generic 90s band. I couldn't sing you a single song off of it - nothing really memorable.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

1/5

Masturbatory schlock. This album takes lovely jazz standards and turns them into uninspired warbly lounge music.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Lovely, textured atmospheric album. It's fun how the tracks journey through multiple genres, all while maintaining the Badly Drawn Boy sound.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

This album has a ton of great tracks, ranging from synthy to metal to party anthems. Not every track was a winner, but in general the album is extremely fun.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Gorgeous, beautiful, emotional musicianship. Why have I never heard of this?

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

Frank Zappa is a musical genius, though somehow some of the social commentary seems at odds with the stable middle-class upbringing he had.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

My wife and I had very different experiences with this album. I was never really a Dylan fan and had a hell of a time trying to decipher what he was saying, and for this reason didn't get as much out of this album (a problem exacerbated by the live recording). My wife, on the other hand, is a Dylan superfan and loved hearing the rawness and unpolished versions of yhe dongs that she knows all the lyrics to (which I understand is most of Dylan's allure). We split the difference in our rating.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

This album sounds like it must have been innovative at the time, and clearly Gang Starr is extremely talented. But it was not really our thing.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Because of their reputation, I had written off Metallica and was surprised by how sophisticated and interesting it was.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

This feels really dated and sort of overly intense and like it is taking itself too seriously. I'm not hearing what critics rave about in this album - it felt boring, and I was glad when it was over.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Very pretty. It does what it says on the tin.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

What do you even say? Mind-blowing, devastating, uplifting. This album is incredible.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

1/5

It sounds like one song on repeat. It was very monotone. There are many many way better punk albums - why is this even on the list?

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

It was all right.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Excellent blues

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

We were pleasantly surprised by how lively and fun this ridiculously named band was. It's fantastic.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Didn’t have the magic of some other Led Zeppelin albums, but still a solid listen.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

We can see how this was probably incredibly influential, but it wasn't our thing

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

Really innovative and fun. It's repetitive, but there are variations throughout. My five year old developed a dance to Trans Europe Express while wearing sunglasses. 5/5.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Beautiful, complex, and apparently a band I've heard a lot of before despite not recognizing the name.

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Wow - so many styles all expertly mixed together and excellent flow for the rap.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

5/5

Perfect 90s album. It has a distinctive sound and feels like an addict experiencing the ecstacy and devestation of addiction.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Transformative.

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Not really our thing, but we can see how this could be mind-blowing if it hit you during the right angsty teenage part of your life. Kind of a downer!

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Very expertly crafted, hypnotic, yet not too repetitive, excellent for setting a mood. The solos are sexy but not overly showy, and the texture is thick with cool.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

🤘🎸

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Like somebody took The Cure and made it more soggy

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Some really nice moments and slick transitions. A lot of tolerable repetition between those.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

5/5

I had never heard of this band and was delighted by their sonic landscapes and playful textures. Every moment was enjoyable.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Eh, it was alright. We feel like we've heard this kind of bluesy rock a lot, and maybe we're too young to really get what makes this album interesting.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

This album is so good that we feel bad we rate other albums five stars

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

We had not heard of this band. Some really neat moments, very Beatles inspired, but some parts were a bit uninspired - they could have added more variation and countermelodies instead of more theremin.

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Surprisingly delightful. I had mentally filed Duran Duran as "that ur-80s band" and never sat down to really listen to them. This album is excellent - it's fun, and sentimental, and has some real bops.

Foo Fighters

3/5

I don't think people would care about Foo Fighters were it not for David Grohl being a Nirvana alumnus.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Good background music for a party. It's pretty good but not particularly memorable.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

5/5

Beautiful - it doesn't sound like she's copying an older band but still is remaining true to country roots while sounding modern and fresh.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

2/5

The interesting thing about Rod Stewart is that it sounds like he has a sore throat.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

It was okay, but not really memorable

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Kind of boring. It can sound like the Foo Fighters or the Beatles, but overall if feels pretty dull.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

The following is a review by my teenagers who had never heard this before: "The style changes lot but you can tell it is the same genre. It makes you feel like a brick in the wall who wants to fix the world."

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

This album was a blast

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Excellent - every song a banger

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

This is listenable but pretty borning.

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Sort of Grateful-Deadish, smooth tunes.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

Lovely

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

It slaps

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Decent, kind of boring. For the most part this feels like it could be a Hank Williams Sr cover album. Black Coffee is amazing.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

We recognize that this was a pivotal album in the popularity of neo-soul, but it felt a lot like background music to a dentist's office or something

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Some songs were really good, like the rocking chair one, but otherwise it was kind of dull

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

The only album we wanted to play again right after we finished it of the 80 so far.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Lovely, soft, and hypnotic with a very bittersweet melancholy.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Badass

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Inoffemsive

The Stooges

5/5

I feel like I understand music history better from having listened to this. It feels like the bridge between psychedelic rock and punk.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

A lovely bluegrass album, but not particularly gripping

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Very pleasant. Some interesting harmonic structures and chord progressions.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

5/5

It sounds very much like the 1960s but has a uniquely calm and innovative charm. I was surprised that they had so much more range than I thought

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Holy crap, I had heard many of these songs before and had no idea they were all by one person, let alone on the same album. Incredible.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

It was okay, nothing particularly distinguishing about it. There were a lot of more innovative groups around the same time.

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

Meh. I've heard better punk albums.

Ramones

5/5

Punk af

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

5/5

I had never heard of this guy, but wow, this was fun as hell.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Iconic

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Self indulgent and boring. An hour of listening to someone navel gaze that we will not get back.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

That was incredibly boring.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Really interested and tight. The Beach Boys is an excellent group.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

It was pretty fun, very much of its time.

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Had not heard of this guy. This was a cool, soulful album, and ai really enjoyed it.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Cool

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Awesome

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Not bad, but there wasn't anything really super memorable

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Pretty great

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Pretty fun

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

5/5

We were blown away by this album. Rod Stewart used to be _cool_?

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Kind of boring - it's like the vanilla pudding of 90s music

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Funk yeah

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Pretty good

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Off-brand Elton John?

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Pleasant

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

It was innocuous enough, but I wouldn't seek it out. Probably would not have listened through to the end if I weren't doing something else at the same time

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

I understand my father-in-law so much better now

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Classic

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Perfection

High Violet

The National

2/5

Lo-fi The Cure

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Badass music to clean the kids' room to.

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

Good beat and flow, many lyrics aged poorly

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

It was okay, but nothing particularly special

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

5/5

It's tricky because while we hadn't heard of the band, at first it seemed derivative. It sounded like a lot of other 90s alt rock bands, but it turns out that this band was one of the influences for that band and not derivative at all.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Always amazing

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

Not as amazing as the last Elvis album on the list, but still solid

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

Man, I was not familiar with ABBA's post-disco sound. This was fun!

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

This album sounds like my adolescence. Funny, because I think it marks the end of the bands adolescence.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Some great tracks but also a lot of what sounds like playing around with the synth

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

I didn't like it, but my wife liked it mainly for nostalgia.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Innovative and dreamy

Vivid

Living Colour

5/5

I can't believe I hadn't heard of this band.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

5/5

Intensely textural

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

They are way more eclectic than I gave them credit for, but there was plenty to sleep by.

Achtung Baby

3/5

So freaking average I can't bother to give this muzak anything other than three stars. Boring af

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Peak 90s

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

Great

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

This was tough, as we previously had a PJ Harvey album we really liked (Let England Shake), and this one was sort of a letdown where no song was really bad, but it also doesn't have any songs that really stand out.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

5/5

Excellent album with beautiful tracks. Not sure it would have been on thid list were it not Bob Dylan, but it's Dylan.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Hell Yes

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Fun, a lot less transgressive today than in the earlier eighties

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Eh it's what I expected

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

Heck yeah

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Great technical playing and really funny

American Pie

Don McLean

5/5

That song is so good, though the rest is forgettable.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

My wife is leaving me for Dolly Parton now.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Not the best Pronce album but still solid

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Hell yeah

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

I can tell this is really great, and I enjoyed it. It's not my thing, but I can tell it's full of excellent musicianship, and with a harder edge than I thought.

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

One of the best cover albums

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Gen X/Boomer Muzak. Please don't make me listen to this again.

Gorillaz

5/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Great background music

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

It's like a greatest hits album, and they are all great.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

I always knew I liked Jefferson Airplane, but I didn't realize I was weird about them until listening through this album.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

Wow, Alice Cooper is way more innovative than I thought!

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

Fuck yeah

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

We can recognize that it's really good, but it's just not our thing.

Illmatic

Nas

1/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

It's got one song on it that you get to listen to a dozen times, but it's a good song

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

I mean, I see why people like it, but it feels like background music

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Not as good as Rumors, but still good. There are several filler songs between the gems.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Singer-songwriter is not our favorite genre, hut among the ones we listened to so far, this is the best. It still sounds pretty same-y though.

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

There are some great grooves and moments that are unfortunately interrupted by the godawful vocals

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Incredible

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

5/5

Every somg is a bop

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Jaunty

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

I can tell why this is beloved, but really I could only sing you back one or two songs. A lot of them are effervescent and fun but not memorable.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

It's pleasant, with sparkling moments, but I had to remind myself to keep listening and not tune it out. It's great Sunday morning. It's good music, and I can totally see why people like it so much, but in 50 years, no one will remember it.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

I see why it's important due to the context of the anti-apartheid movement, but it's kinda boring as far as jazz albums go?

Opus Dei

Laibach

5/5

Love it

Guero

Beck

4/5