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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stooges The Stooges	5	3.26	+1.74
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Visitors ABBA	1	3.21	-2.21
Let's Stay Together Al Green	2	3.76	-1.76
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.65	-1.65
Definitely Maybe Oasis	2	3.53	-1.53
Live! Fela Kuti	2	3.44	-1.44
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.39	-1.39
The Renaissance Q-Tip	2	3.24	-1.24
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	2	3.21	-1.21
The Who Sell Out The Who	2	3	-1

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Let's Stay Together

Al Green · 5 likes

2/5

Great for chill background music, but only the title track stood out as a memorable song.

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good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Surprised we didn't already know this band. How do you miss a strong alternative group from the 90s completely?

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

A little soft. Was distracted while listening but nothing really hit for me.

The Visitors

ABBA

1/5

Only listened to Side 1. Not my style, too poppy and disco. But the dark lyrical content of The Visitors was interesting.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Standard radio rock. Not much stands out beyond the title track, If You Want Blood, and Beating Around the Bush.

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Much more interesting than I remembered. Thrash that's more leaning toward Pantera groove.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Full of soulful vocals and beautiful instrumentation, and some rockers, too. Predicted Radiohead and Coldplay but is somewhat better. Ripe for more listens

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

2/5

Jazz rap that's pretty smooth. Nothing particularly stood out as exceptional, but clean overall. Liked it.

The Stooges

5/5

Masterful early angry rock, with elements of psychedelica and punk. Pulsing, driving, hypnotizing tracks.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Great album, totally unique.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

Not really remarkable, but good in a lot of ways. Love Forever is the obvious standout. I'd give it another shot but it wasn't gripping.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Seems like the beginning of ambient electronic as it is known today. Lots of chill, space-y music, good for background soundtrack.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

2/5

Great for chill background music, but only the title track stood out as a memorable song.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

A personal favorite. All tracks are interesting, distinct, full of emotive lyrics, and the overall sound is upbeat, electronic-tinged rock.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Clearly a defining album of dream pop and shoegaze. I get a little tired of it for a while album, but the individual songs are pristine. It's really good, but it's also rare I want to listen to this kind of music.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Some very weird and interesting psychedelic rock. Ranges from noise to soft to atmospheric to pop. Worth investigating more of what they do.

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Jazz with a lot of African influences. Definitely interesting, especially the Ginger Baker solos, but not first-choice jazz.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

A lot of really creative and thoughtful songs (especially Crosby's) that make for a very entertaining record. A classic, to be sure.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Some very strong songs (Beautiful Day, Walk on the Wild Side, Satellite of Love), some okay ones, and a few slow tuba-driven strange songs. A solid piece of rock history.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Very foundational sound for later punk, particularly The Offspring and Rage. Some clever instrumentation and irony as well.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

2/5

Very bluesy. A few songs sound like Tom Waits. Not a lot stood out when it was playing as work background music.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

More traditional Irish than punk, this is still a collection of punchy, catchy tunes that were unlike anything in rock music at the time.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Obviously a seminal and extremely important album full of adventurous sampling. I'd have to really listen to the lyrics to bump this up, but it's not half bad as a background album either.

Technique

New Order

4/5

An excellent collection of dance tracks, jangle rock, melancholy meditations, and a variety of synth and instrument music. It feels like it has a symbiotic relationship with other bands of the era, like the Cure, Duran Duran, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Talking Heads. The non-single tracks are as good or better than their counterparts.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Excellent album, up there with Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. A lot of the fuzz grunge and a bit of the guitar odyssey.

Le Tigre

3/5

Pretty neat, electronics and dance mixed with riot grrl punk. Some really good dark ambient tracks at the end.

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Effortlessly classic, so many captivating noise guitar songs.

The xx

3/5

As chill as possible, very soft vocals and tight beats, minimal but sharp melodies.

The Cars

4/5

All-time classic rock album, transitioning from the arena rock of the 70s to the New Wave and synthpop coming in the next decade. Every song is repeatably listenable.