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2000s

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	4	2.74	+1.26
Tago Mago Can	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.67	-1.67
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	2	3.07	-1.07
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Back in the early 70s, ZZ Top was basically a Texan version of Rush.

1 likes

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Surprisingly poignant and arresting. I wouldn't have figured a singer/songwriter could be this engaging. Also, it very much sound like the product of a tortured artist who wasn't going to survive.

1 likes

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Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Surprisingly cross-genre, almost jammy. Lots of hints of jazz, soul, and R&B in addition to CCR's southern rock core.

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Well, I tried. I just do not get Lou Reed whatsoever.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

I'd never heard a lick of this band before, although the name was familiar. The sound is halfway between The Police and XTC, with some excellent and innovative guitar and bass. But the real star is Paul Weller's voice and insightful lyrics.

Cross

Justice

4/5

Definitely a seminal moment in electronica, this album grabbed my attention back in the day for the way it crafted melody out of texture, and its prediction of synthwave and 80s retro to come soon after. That said, it feels a bit dated now. (This is also the first album on the list that I already knew intimately before I saw it here.)

Gorillaz

4/5

Ahhh, simpler times. We had just survived Y2K, and everything felt fresh and new. I remember being thrilled when Blur and Bay Area hyphy collided in this stunning debut, although I couldn't for the life of me remember any of this music, save Clint Eastwood of course. A fun musical journey, whether or not it's familiar.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

This is a staggering debut album, full of hits both recognizable and novel. It turned Southern rock into a cohesive art form, even while pushing its envelope.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

Look: I love electronica and ambient music and vintage synths (hell, that's what my degree is in), but I'm not sure this is even the best TD album.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

I don't know how I managed to have never heard of this band before. The music, somewhere between Soul Coughing and Propellerheads, would have been on heavy rotation for me about twenty years ago. You can almost hear the reckless post-Y2K glee!

Led Zeppelin

5/5

This is a game-changing masterpiece.

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

A surprising amalgam of styles from two different eras, this album has elements of both 60s psychadaelia and 70s prog rock. Also, this album showcases the oft-overlooked fact that Vincent Furnier was and is a hell of a singer.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Back in the early 70s, ZZ Top was basically a Texan version of Rush.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

I like it just fine, although it never ever ever occurs to me to actively want to listen to it. Why is that?

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

Surprisingly listenable and relevant 50 years later. Listening to this, I can hear both contemporaries (like Yes and Magma) and unabashed descendants (Radiohead comes immediately to mind).

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

This very much reminds me of the mid-90s: overblown and bland.

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

The Undertones

3/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

If you've never heard this before: this album contains "Bohemian Rhapsody." So, imagine an album where that song makes sense. That's right: it's an insane blender of styles and unchecked ambition. There's a harp on here. Also, young Freddie Mercury is even more amazing than I remember. Also, Brian May deserves the props and respect that he gets.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Surprisingly poignant and arresting. I wouldn't have figured a singer/songwriter could be this engaging. Also, it very much sound like the product of a tortured artist who wasn't going to survive.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

It's aight.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

This is worth all the praise that it gets. Joni Mitchell is an actual songbird. I don't know how she does it.

Elvis Presley

3/5

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