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Album	You	Global	Diff
Guitar Town Steve Earle	5	2.81	+2.19
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts The Adverts	5	2.98	+2.02
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.48	+1.52
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Killing Joke Killing Joke	1	2.99	-1.99
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.95	-1.95
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	1	2.92	-1.92
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	2	3.66	-1.66
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	2	3.63	-1.63
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	2	3.49	-1.49
My Generation The Who	2	3.42	-1.42
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.4	-1.4
Sincere Mj Cole	1	2.38	-1.38
Marcus Garvey Burning Spear	2	3.19	-1.19

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

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Guitar Town

Steve Earle · 2 likes

5/5

This is good songwriting, and not pandering BS. Music and hooks are catchy. Lyrics are hard hitting, but still are down to earth and relatable. Highlight tracks: 2, 3, 4, 6

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5 · 1 likes

5/5

Great from start to finish. All tracks highlight.

1-Star Albums (3)

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Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

Funky beats, but vocals are not my thing

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

It's like Prog-Rock for Spanish music. Lots of good musicianship, not much to remember. Highlight Tracks: 3, 7, 11, 12

Foo Fighters

2/5

Inoffensive generic rock and roll, with vocals that Dave sings 3 octaves too high. Nothing "bad" but most certainly nothing "great". Highlight Tracks: 2, 7, 9, 11

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

Very skillful for all instruments. Nothing I would listen to again though. Drum solo on track 3 is the highlight.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Beautiful noise for the counterculture. Out of tune guitars and flat vocals still provide punchy, noise driven, hard hitting rock and roll to get the mind thinking of rebellion. Highlight tracks: 4, 5, 12, 14 (and more)

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

5/5

This is good songwriting, and not pandering BS. Music and hooks are catchy. Lyrics are hard hitting, but still are down to earth and relatable. Highlight tracks: 2, 3, 4, 6

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Sometimes a bit to white male 70s rock for my taste. Highlight Tracks: 4, 6, 7, 8

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Good jammin' Highlight Tracks: The short ones

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Inconsistent, but very good when it gets its stride. Highlight tracks: 4, 8, 9, 10

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

I think my hatred of this album goes back to me not liking dance clubs. And probably even further back to high school dances. Either way, I think I would need drugs to enjoy it. File it in the trash bin. Highlight Track: "I see".

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

First half > Second half Highlight Tracks: 1, 2, 5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Mostly forgettable, but not terrible to listen to. Good background music. "The Message" is good for it's commentary, but not the music. Highlight Track: "The Message"

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Smooth as butter

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Amazing output. The soundscapes here are phenomenal. Nothing bad on this album. The 2nd side medley might be the finest 17 minutes of music ever made. Highlight tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 9-17 medley

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

Music is fine, but ruined by bad vocals and vocal mastering. If you are going to commit to punk style raw vocals, the music has to be equally shitty for it to work. Highlight track: 2

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

5/5

What a powerhouse of an album. Fast, clean, and cheap is right. Songwriting is thought provoking, sound is clean, while 3 chord music blisters in the background. This is what ALL punk should aspire to. Highlight tracks: ALL (especially 1, 2, 6, 11). Gary Gilmore's Eyes my favorite track of the whole review process so far.

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Too much "fluffy feel good" for me. Plus I hate the early tinny production. Highlight tracks: 3, 6, 9, 13 (deluxe)

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Not a huge fan of the softer, high pitched voices used in this album. For a hard rock album, it's decidedly soft. Rock Opera is a cool concept, but some real strange tracks exist to hold the confusing narrative together. Highlight Tracks: 4, 8, 13, 21

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

High paced indie rock that brings everything to the table. Starts and never lets up. Highlight Tracks: 1, 2, 9, 11, 13

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

Should have 3/4 hour of bewilderbeast. Ends up feeling same-y for a good majority of the album. Then when he does change it up with Disillusion, halfway thru you want it to go back. He does folk-pop well, and I guess needs to stick to it. Almost nothing stands out, this is just a collection of okay songs. Highlight Tracks: 1, 5, 12, 17

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

What a debut. Some songs that aren't so great, but they still keep the vibe going. If you like hard rock that doesn't waver on that description, it's a good album to hear. Highlight Tracks: 1, 5, 6, 7, 9

Iron Maiden

2/5

Too instrumental, while also being boring, for me. Songs weren't even that long but still dragged on. Just nothing to hook onto to. Highlight Tracks: 1, 4 (minus the middle), 8

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

As intellectual as the lyrics are, poetry is not my jam. The music blends together, seeming one big song of an album. It's not bad, it's actually probably quite good and important, just not my taste of folk rock. Highlight Track: 5

John Prine

5/5

Beautiful. Just absolutely immersive listening. This is storytelling and songwriting. This is not folk. This isn't bluegrass. This isn't country. It's John Prine and this is music I can get behind. Highlight Tracks: ALL

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

U2 meets Oasis and it's not as inspired as either of the parts. What's with this list and high-pitched vocals? Highlight Tracks: 3, 4, 7

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

"Interesting" is really all I can come up with Highlight Tracks: 1, 2, 6, 12 (minus the 6 minute final note)

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Interesting lyrics, love the folk rock style, but my man Leonard Cohen can't sing. And it hurts the album tremendously. When I say "interesting", it doesn't always mean good. I found it tough to get through. Highlight Tracks: 1, 3, 4

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Misdemeanor doesn't mince words, and isn't afraid to share what's on her mind. In her effort to save hip-hop she mostly succeeds. Highlight Tracks: 3, 4, 6, 8

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

Took me like a week to finish. Boring. Highlight tracks: 2, 6, 8

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

Second half better than first. Not my kind of music. Highlight tracks: 4, 5, 6

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I prefer the heavier Led Zeppelin Highlight Tracks: 1, 3, 5, 9

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

2/5

If I was Jamaican this would probably be better Highlight Tracks: 2, 10

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Could be worse Highlight tracks: 3, 6, 12

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

1/5

Nothing special. No highlight tracks. Just was listened to, not enjoyed.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

My dislike of this album is equal to my dislike of the entire grunge genre Highlight Tracks: 3, 7, 11 (deluxe)

Miriam Makeba

2/5

Interesting, but overall not my style. Highlight Tracks: 3, 8, 13

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

The second half is much better than the first, minus the title track. Highlight Tracks: 1, 7, 10

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Did not need to be a double album. Highlight tracks: 2, 6, 8, 5(D2)

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Good Enough to keep my attention. Highlight Tracks: 5, 6, 11, 13

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Great from start to finish. All tracks highlight.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

I'll stick to the studio versions. You could show up 45 minutes late to this show and not miss a damn thing. Highlight tracks: Disc 2: 2, 3

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

2/5

Not very memorable for me. Highlight Track: 6

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

Gets a star for maybe being good background noise

The Cars

3/5

Not a favorite of mine, the genre. The hits are decent. Highlight Tracks: 1,2,3,6

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Decent Christmas songs. Good mixing. Too bad he murdered someone.

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Easy listening, love the drum solo on Aja. Good tight music.

Killing Joke

1/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

Sounds like they did it all in one take, and didn't throw anything away. I get that it's the genre, but why?

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Good to put on and forget the problems of the world. But that's not enough to merit a high regard.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Great from start to finish. A very solid effort. Could have done without the iron man cover tho.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Classic album. Even if you don't like the genre, you'll still have something to like here. Highlight Tracks: 1, 2, 6, 10

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Not a bad listen Highlight Tracks: 5, 8, 12