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Album	You	Global	Diff
Dust Screaming Trees	5	3.16	+1.84
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
Live Through This Hole	5	3.29	+1.71
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	5	3.3	+1.7
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.32	+1.68
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	5	3.39	+1.61
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.57	+1.43
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	5	3.6	+1.4

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	1	4.05	-3.05
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
The Slider T. Rex	1	3.28	-2.28
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	1	3.24	-2.24
Hysteria Def Leppard	1	3.22	-2.22
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	1	3.16	-2.16
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	1	3.09	-2.09

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	3	5
U2	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Leonard Cohen	2	1

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
My Bloody Valentine	5, 2
Gene Clark	4, 1
Beatles	2, 5, 3

5-Star Albums (22)

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Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen · 20 likes

1/5

"hmm after i take another hit of this crack pipe maybe i should pick another album for the list" 1

Live Through This

Hole · 3 likes

5/5

I'm just as surprised as you are 5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure · 1 likes

4/5

4 compared to the last week this shit is fire

Dust

Screaming Trees · 1 likes

5/5

Dope, already familiar 5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean · 1 likes

5/5

Holy shit, 5 easy. Reading the reviews we've clearly got a lot of boomers and/or racist homophobes listening to this list.

1-Star Albums (18)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

All Ratings

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

It's alright

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Pretty excellent, I'd go with a 4

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

a little too bluesy and old fashioned for my tastes. Definitely good though. 3

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Classic 4, slaps. Actually probably a 5 this is great

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

It's pretty good, solid 3

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

pretty good 4

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Good early punkish 3

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

I hate Christmas music 1

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

great 4

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

good punk 4

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

5 mastapeeece baybee

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Already know but won't complain about listening - 5

Paul Simon

3/5

Good 3

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

pretty sweet 4

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

on second listen pretty good, lyrics are solid. 3

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

super dope and funky for some white guys 4

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

grimy, yet satisfying 3

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Pretty good britpop 3

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Stone cold classic no doubt but not my jam 3

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Already know 6

Chris

Christine and the Queens

4/5

Pretty great tbh, someone said Tegan and Sara are probably fans and i definitely see it. Same vibes. 4

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Bruuf 1

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Great rrrecorrd 4

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Solid heavy metal 3

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

superstar for a reason3

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Overrated 2

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

meh not for me 2

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Aight 2

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Classic 4

Ananda Shankar

1/5

I really liked the doomsday vault review somebody posted 1

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

I mean despite being a piece of shit the man makes good music 3

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Already familiar. Would have been a 4 once upon a time. Probably just a 3 now

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Purdy good 4

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Call it the metal equivalent of the "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny trope but this seems overrated. Weird because I loved sabbath. Anyways, solid 3

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Beck sad, sad boring, sad not always boring, beck sad boring 2

The Joshua Tree

5/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Best of only, I'm not spending 3 hours. I can appreciate it but it's not for me. 3

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Pretty dope 5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

it's aight 2

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

Not bad considering 2

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Classic 4

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Cocaine is a hell of a drug 4

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Tweee2

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Meh 2

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Meh 3

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Eh 3

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Do i have to? Did, 1 What a dogshit steak I've been on

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Jesus Christ the twilight hour 3, definitely better than the last few

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

4 compared to the last week this shit is fire

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Got its moments 3

1984

Van Halen

2/5

How does anyone enjoy this? Still better than bon Jon bovine at least 2

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Good not mind blowing. I like this kinda stuff though 4

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Rough listen 3

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Beep boop 10 stars

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

3 stars, i give em props but it's just not enough to blow my mind

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Dece 4

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Tom petty > Springsteen > any hair metal 3

Garbage

4/5

Dope 4

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

Dope, already familiar 5

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

The oval office and the lobby probly listen to fugazi but this is my first time. The old me would have loved it. For him, 4

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Live Through This

Hole

5/5

I'm just as surprised as you are 5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

If it's good enough for tommy P it's good enough for me 3

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

In theory 4 in practice 3

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Better than bon Jovi, still shitty 3

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

Meh 2

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

4, i know the hits but surprised how much i like the whole album. Death on two legs is a banger

Low

David Bowie

4/5

4 bowie

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Make sure you listen to the one under the wailers, not bob Marley 4

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

I like it 4

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

1/5

Unlike miles Davis i have not been swayed by the cool 1

Achtung Baby

5/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Apparently a third of all essential albums are obscure britpop... Pretty good though 4

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Meh 2

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

Lmao at what the dude said about the uncultured swine. I'll give it a 2 because it's objectively beautiful but yeah, not for me. 2

The Cars

4/5

Wall to wall banger 4

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Kenya

Machito

2/5

I thought this list was mostly classic rock but turns out it is entirely jazz 2

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

This is dope 5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Enjoyed it, too bad it's not on Spotify. 3

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Solid 4 for lyricism

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

90s alt rock i haven't heard a million times? 4

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

Que tan interesante 4

Suede

3/5

Yay more britpop 3

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Enjoyed it quite a bit 4. As a Russian doll fan it kinda blew my mind that gotta get up was from 1971.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

I wanted to turn it off after 2 songs but I'm glad i stuck with it 3

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5/5

I already know 5 and it's a damn shame this is his only entry on this list

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

5 easy

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

It's alright 3

The Band

2/5

Meh 2

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Mmm fuzzy goodness 5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

Meh 2

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Pretty cool, shame it's not on Spotify though 4

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

It's no arctic monkeys 3

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

4 good album. Shame Yeezy is such a fuckin dickhead

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

3 i want to like it more than i do

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

Better than bon Jovi

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Raw dawg 3

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

3 alright

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

4 dope

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Kinda sucks. I should hope this is not the album that people fell in love with. 1

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

3cent

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Dope protopunk 3

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Surprisingly enjoyable 3

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

Wild 3, but after the second half more of a 2

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Anyone that ol Tommy P covered so many times is alright by me 3

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Far out man 4

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

You oughta know it's ironic how i fell head over feet for this album. Pocket hand Sha Sha Sha. 4

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Fallon may be a goober but he has good taste 4

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

Shit sux shit sux shit sux shit sux 1

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

trip hop. Dope start, 4

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Not enough nelly for my country music 3

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Surprisingly great. Weird how my first exposure to lust for life was from a fucking cruise ship commercial 5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Middling 3

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Reminds me how much i used to love this stuff 4

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Surprisingly dope. Feels like I'm shooting lasers in a cyberpunk disco 3

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Funk 4 Motown 3

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Monitor is a banger 3

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Love me some trip hop lo Fi whatever the fuck 4 long ass album though

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Better than expected 4

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

These 5 star reviews gotta be trolling right? 1

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Meh 2

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

1/5

Better than bon Jovi 1

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Not bad 3

Pretenders

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Surprised how much i enjoyed it 3

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Fuckin dope 4

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

What if Metallica but worse? Extra star for the dredd song 3

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

2/5

Meh 2

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

The Slider

T. Rex

1/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Dope 4

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

3 definitely thought it would be a lot worse. Holy fuck am i sick of these hits though

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

2 for the story and skill, but it'd be a 1 for me on its own

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Technique

New Order

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Superstition was dope, the rest ok 3

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

I am comfortable with not being a jazz person 1

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

She's a lot more musical than SNL celebrity jeopardy would have me believe 4

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Better than i expected tbh 3

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

1/5

"hmm after i take another hit of this crack pipe maybe i should pick another album for the list" 1

Basket of Light

Pentangle

1/5

Nah dawg 1

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Dope 4

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Cuatro

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Ah yes, the visionary songwriting of the Ford assembly line 1

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Good shit man 4 Buncha people rating it 1 and 2 just because Clapton is a piece of shit. Y'all probably unironically love Yeezy ya hypocrites

Ramones

4/5

A.P. Bio was a good show, go watch it. 4

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

An enjoyable 3

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

That janney jormplin broad is pretty good 4

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Can't imagine how tough it must be

Le Tigre

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Holy shit, 5 easy. Reading the reviews we've clearly got a lot of boomers and/or racist homophobes listening to this list.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

The La's

2/5

This guy's got a real hard on for Brit pop huh?

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

White Light

Gene Clark

1/5

1 not for me

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Debut

Björk

2/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

So fuzzy

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

5 baybee

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

eSseNtIAl LIstEnIng I was so excited at the beginning of this journey but 250+ albums in and the only surprises are how much mediocrity exists out there. Don't get me wrong: I have discovered plenty of good music from this list, but even the new to me 5 star albums are by artists I had already heard of.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

3 more of a later Beatles guy

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

I hate that fucking song so much. Rest of the album is decent though 3

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Dunno man, 3 i guess

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Bootylicious but not filling

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Love it 4

Risque

CHIC

2/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

High Violet

The National

2/5

A boring 2

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Some artists are mislabed as one hit wonders and have a great catalogue waiting to be explored. This is not one of those. 2

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

One of the things I've learned through this list is that a lot of these early hip hop acts that i always assumed were corny actually go pretty fuckin hard. Looking at you pharcyde and queen Latifah. 4

1977

Ash

3/5

Back in the day i would have been all over this 3

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Now i understand that key and Peele skit 4

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Meh, Two weeks is a bop but the rest is pretty underwhelming 2