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Album	You	Global	Diff
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.44	+1.56
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.59	+1.41
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.63	+1.37
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	4	2.65	+1.35
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.65	+1.35
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.8	+1.2

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	2	3.39	-1.39
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	2	3.32	-1.32
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	2	3.29	-1.29
The Who Sell Out The Who	2	3	-1

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C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

If I were at a party, I wouldn't mind if this album played for five hours straight. Listening to it at home does not feel like the proper setup, but still, it makes me wonder what would be of music as we know it today if it weren't for Nile Rodgers. Overall good, but gets a bump up for being so influential.

2 likes

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The Stones are a consistently good band, and this album is the perfect representation of that statement. Even though it's almost 2h long, they've managed to do it without a single bad track. Sub-optimal, maybe, but none of them were less enjoyable enough to make me even consider skipping (which I tend to do a bit too often with songs I don't care that much). Overall, a great album, has some classic in it, like Tumbling Dice and Shine a Light. Probably a 4.2~4.5

1 likes

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Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Now I get why Weezer exists

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Made me want to run away

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Took me a while to listen bc it wasn't available on Spotify, but boy, do i regret taking so long... Bluesy country-rock that only late 60's/mid 70's could provide. The title track is the one that stands out the most for me, but the album as a whole is quite an experience.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Play

Moby

3/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Starts out great, but gets tiring towards the end, which made the experience of listening to it something weird

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

808 State

3/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Sounds like any generic 90's band that you'd expect to find in the soundtrack of a bad movie, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

I'm not too much of a Elvis listener, but this album is SO EASY. There are a couple of tracks that i'd rather not have there, but the record is already short as it is, so they serve a function. Maybe 3.8 rather than a 4

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

Suprised me in a good way. I've listened quite a few 90's rock albums through here, but none of them had stand out like this one until now. fav track: Homemade

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Not bad, but quite an "easy to forget" album. At least it ends with an absolute banger.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

I was never much of Cash's target audience, but hearing (and seeing) him play in front of dozens of inmates was a powerful experience. Going to jump to At Folsom Prison real soon too.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

It was a while since I listened to Machine Head for the last time. This is one of the albums I grew up to, so I have really fond memories of most of it's songs, but I recalled it being a bit more consistently "high energy". Not saying that tracks like Lazy or When a Blind Man Cries are bad, but there is such a high contrast with Highway Star and Pictures of Home for example that it kind of tames down the whole album pace. Smoke on The Water still sounds great despite being the single most overly-reproduced rock song. That said, this is still one of the most important records of my life, it shaped my taste in music and had it's part on leading me to be who I am today, and hadn't it been for the nostalgia, it probably wouldn't go as far as 5 stars, but I can't help myself.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

Idk if it's necessarily bad, but definitely isn't my piece of cake

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Think I was way too sober to enjoy this entirely, but nonetheless, it's a great psychedelic album.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

As punk rock as the 90's get. No wonder this is a classic

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

I was expecting something more jazzy... The recording is great, so is the songwriting, but I felt it lacked more energy. Listened to this while reading, and it quickly merged into the background (not necessarily in a bad way).

Moby Grape

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Too much insanity. Even for Can.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Violent Femmes

3/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

It's a great and well produced album, but it's far from being my favorite work from Kanye. I feel like it shortened the gap between rap and pop music, but I'm not sure this is a nice thing. Overall, it's good music, features a handful of well curated samples and a few great special guests. 3.8

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Jazzy, groovy and funky. I love this.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television