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Album	You	Global	Diff
Opus Dei Laibach	5	2.39	+2.61
Arc Of A Diver Steve Winwood	5	2.88	+2.12
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	5	3	+2
Close To You Carpenters	5	3.11	+1.89
Dear Science TV On The Radio	5	3.16	+1.84
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	5	3.28	+1.72
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
Tommy The Who	5	3.34	+1.66
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	1	3.32	-2.32
The Scream Siouxsie And The Banshees	1	3.04	-2.04
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.77	-1.77
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	2	3.64	-1.64
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.63	-1.63
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.62	-1.62
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	2	3.56	-1.56
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	2	3.53	-1.53
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	2	3.42	-1.42
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39

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Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

5/5

FANTASTIC

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1-Star Albums (2)

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Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Pretty nice overall. Fuzztoned/emo/pop feel. Reminds me of Daft Punk Random Access Memories a little bit. Also Eels, Cage the Elephant, that sort of thing.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

Already in collection, absolute masterpiece of proto-hiphop.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Honestly kind of meh. Given the staying power of the theme, and how much I enjoy a lot of Hayes' work, surprised that the balance of the album was just sorta background filler. Which I guess it was intended to be.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Wow. Musically amazing. Will have to give it a few more listens to get the story/message processed. Reminds me a lot of The Wall, but with a more positive vibe. After two listens, I discovered how little I know about The Who beyond the radio hits of the 70's. Amazing.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Kind of meh. Not a fan of emo.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Always solid.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Pretty good. Classic radio hits, some jazzy EZ listening sort of stuff.

The Stooges

3/5

Hmmm... kind of interesting, psychadelic and punky, not sure it's "great" but I'm not a major punk fan.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

Always a trip to see things I thought of as "obscure" pop up here. I like the West African sound, but when more traditional, it tends to all run together. This album does a great job of marrying the structure and modality (?) with traditional western blues rock.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Coming as it did after my highschool pivot to metal, missed this on release. Pretty good overall, though the sexual stuff is over the top for an old man.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Awesome, some good hardrock classics. So much excellent music in the late sixties, it all kind of runs together.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Cool

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Really neat. As with other 1970-ish classic rock albums, a hit or two, and then a lot of avant-garde things that are kind of all over the place. Great production. Listened 2x in a row.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

Skeptical from the outset... here we go! ... nice enough, just not really my style.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Dunno. The late sixties pop/punk/psych doesn't really do it for me.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Well this one takes me back. Be interesting to listen to it now vs on release as a 11 year old... Fantastic, great time in music history, the synthpop and protorap combined with the guitar work. Just wow. Great.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Oh god, my 13 year old sister is back. Goddamn if this didn't age really well. Catchy, well produced (maybe over produced). The big top 40 hits hit the memberberries better than the lesser-known tracks. Still a pretty neat listen.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Interesting... this project has exposed me to a lot of bands I've never heard of. These guys are pretty good, not necessarily my jam, and some of the other albums I found better at first listen.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Neat! Easy listening, without being "easy listening". Jazzy with an afrobeat appeal. Watching the live show that came on next, this guy is quite a performer and guitarist.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Well! This seems like something I should already be familiar with. Interesting to say the least. Like early Black Sabbath meets Jethro Tull. Weird but cool.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

1/5

Um, no.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

5/5

FANTASTIC

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Nothing necessary to say here...

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Brilliant

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Not bad, bluegrass\folk not really my jam. "This is the Sea" ,1985 album that youtube fed me next, I like better.

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Probably an acquired taste? More "velvet" than "underground".

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Hard to go wrong here.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Allegedly a masterpiece, listening to it in Falcon as we speak. Not quite sure what to make of it, almost seems to be trying too hard to be "a thing". Still working with it, but it's growing on me.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Rowdy!

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Pretty good overall.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Well. This is certainly weird.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Hits are hits for sure, some of the loosey jazz stuff is a little loosey...

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Meh

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Well, getting a bad feeling just from the album title... But I like it just fine. A little speedy for first thing in the morning! Overall pretty good, though I like more melody or more aggro in my electronic music.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Youtube comments are hilarious.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

No comments needed here.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Meh? Kind of all runs together, not a lot variety of key/etc. Vibrato's over the top.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Nice!

High Violet

The National

4/5

Moody shoegazy sort of Duran-Duran vibes. Good when the mood's right.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Legendary, well worth the listen. But production is kind of thin from a modern perspective.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

5/5

Wow, legit covers a lot of ground. Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Prince. Damn.

New York Dolls

2/5

um...

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

Oy. I like some weird stuff, but this is really pushing the limits.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Not really my bag, baby. Too much dream-, not enough -pop.

1999

Prince

4/5

Second Prince album at ~20 into the 1001. Great record, hard to believe this is from 1982.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Cool album cover... I liked this record quite a bit.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Interesting. Kind of all over the place.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Wow, just amazing.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Much hair! Such hits! Fun listen. Crazy how redundant the lyrics are.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Wow, great record.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Had this on vinyl, read the lyrics over and over. Great record.

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

The Kinks

2/5

Meh? Kind of fun and jangly, but discordant and sort of redundant.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

meh

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

4/5

Now I know who Donald Fagen is!

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

????

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

kinda bonkers, I like it. B52s-ish meets The Cardigans.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

4/5

Great record, good times listening to this back in the day.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

2/5

Eeeesh, I wanted to like it, but man a little Talking Heads goes a long way.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Well. Honestly, after Sympathy for the Devil, rest of the album was kind of a letdown.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

5/5

Wow, awesome. Did not expect to like this at all.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

meh

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

Wow, it's like that Weird Al Palindrome song. Over and over and over. Don't hate it, but the reedy goofy voice kinda grates after a while.

Born To Be With You

Dion

4/5

Holy shit, like *that* Dion. Damn nice record, good folksy vibe with great production. Your Own Back Yard is pretty topical...

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Pretty good, some big hits here. Kind of a typical self-reprising in here too, which is alternately endearing and boring. Also, Paul sure is in love with his voice.

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Super cool, has that proto-muzak world music vibe I dig on.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Not sure what to make of this, Laryn's vocal style and the heavy overlayered production haven't aged well.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Let's see where this goes!! Fun, great fuzz tone acid rock vibes along with everything else.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Pretty good, it's Elton John after all.

War

3/5

As topical now as ever. Not a super big fan of the vocals, drone/resonate a bit.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

I liked it! A little monochrome, but I suppose that's part and parcel of the genre and the period in history.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Not much to say about this one. Just 100% gold.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Whoa, this was pretty cool. Dreamy, spacey, nice harmonies.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Didn't age terribly well...

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Well yeah, it's a masterpiece

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Pretty funky, janky, new-wavy, but somebody is trying a little too hard to be Stevie Nicks.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Liked it better than expected, a lot of variety here.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

This is one creepy-ass album cover. Great record, lots of fun noisy punk/jangle.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

Interesting. Kind of all over the place. There's some things I dig (middle eastern westernized pop) and things I don't (western pop).

Common

4/5

Nice record by a nice guy.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Fun jangly rock, not terribly impactful, but a good record.

Opus Dei

Laibach

5/5

Holy shit this is amazing. Rammstein + Borat + Art of Noise. Seven stars at least. Might be my new favorite band.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

The kind of thing I'd be stoked to hear in a bar somewhere...

Sister

Sonic Youth

2/5

Meh, a little jangly noisy discordant for my tastes

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Well, at least I know what the words to the chorus are. No idea where I heard this (didn't listen to the radio much/at all in 1998) but... been a while. ...no idea how I recognize just about every song on this. Strong Sheryl Crow vibes, pretty good sound.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Nice

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

RIP

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Interesting, Pink Floyd meets CCR.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Nice record. Don't know why I'm not a fan of her, this is good stuff. Maybe too much caterwauling?

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Hell yeah

Fragile

Yes

4/5

This was really cool. Progressive, bouncy, a lot of fun.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

Meh, just not my thing. Kind of moody, atonal, like it wants to be shoegaze but doesn't groove.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Nice production to this one. Gospel and funk undertones. Dig it.

Joanna Newsom

3/5

Well, this was interesting. Didn't hate it, renaissance faire vibes for sure. Lyrical structure was certainly entertaining, sort of spoken-word runon sentences.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

This is weird. I like it.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Liked it better than I expected, but then again didn't expect much. Good energy, but not a lot of variety to the music.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

This is about as 70's as it gets. Lots to enjoy.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

1/5

Vocals are not my jam, just too much drone on the same note.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

I get it, he's the man, still don't like his voice.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Brilliant.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

decent enough record, overshadowed by his legacy.

Pretenders

3/5

I like the pretenders, just not sure I'm crazy about this album. More punk than new wave.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Fantastic. Reminds me of the importance of listening to an album in order (instead of randomized or a track at at time).

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

This was fun. Vibrato kind of over the top, but as Grandpa Simpson would say "that was the style at the time".

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

4/5

Well, I guess I have to like this.

#1 Record

Big Star

2/5

Meh

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Yep. Not as good as King of Rock, but still a solid album from rap royalty.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Some is quite catchy, but some is kind of noisy and obnoxious.

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Not really my thing, but that's my fault, not theirs. Too punky for rock, too mild for hardcore... dunno. Hard to classify.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Some bangers, some famous guests, some frightening violence. Missed this on release. Bet it made for a lot of pissed-off parents.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

This is pretty nifty. Not sure 1,001 albums material, but I do dig it a lot.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Not what I was expecting based on the album cover. Not really my jam, but liked it fine.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

Didn't hate it, kind of moody and croony and backgroundy. Cheryl Crow sleepwalking...

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

Cringe and "oh god I hate Bob Dylan" just from the album cover. Clever lyrics, good musicality and flow, just have a hard time with his voice.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Solid!

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Nice. Soul and funk with some strong disco tendencies.

Headquarters

The Monkees

4/5

Fun! Has that weird proto-psychadelic vibe like early Creedence and other late-sixties stuff. 4*

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Hell yeah.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Liked this WAY better than I would have guessed. Lot of stylistic variation. Voice is a little annoying a whole album at a time though.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Well, I can tell I quit listening to hiphop around this time. Not bad, just not my jam. Kind of messy.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

meh, not bad, just kind of background and boring

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

Fun!

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

what a buncha bogans

Close To You

Carpenters

5/5

Awesome, what a lovely voice.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Interesting. Not bad, not necessarily memorable. Definitely sounds and feels like 1974.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Dig it