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Album	You	Global	Diff
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	5	2.79	+2.21
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	4	2.91	+1.09
Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals	4	2.94	+1.06
Sheet Music 10cc	4	2.96	+1.04
Future Days Can	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	1	3.21	-2.21
461 Ocean Boulevard Eric Clapton	1	3.12	-2.12
London Calling The Clash	2	3.98	-1.98
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.84	-1.84
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.62	-1.62
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Suicide Suicide	1	2.46	-1.46
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	2	3.3	-1.3

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461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

There's plenty of people making music that aren't racist shitheads. Hard pass.

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1-Star Albums (5)

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Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

--- muse black holes and revelations --- take a bow 2/3 k maybe a bit long, but overall i like it. it _sounds_ like a minute long intro track, but lasts almost five minutes? --- starlight 3/3 this is the title track, the chorus repeats the album name. i always forget this is the title track cause it's not named for the album --- supermassive black hole 2/3 too slow --- map of the problematique 3/3 --- invincible 1/3 i just want to go listen to (the good tracks from) neutral milk hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea hate the marching snare and this song is not fast enough to walk to hate hate hate this --- assassin 3/3 oh yeah this is why i remember liking muse --- city of delusion 2/3 not mad at this --- hoodoo 3/3 good if in the mood for big and operatic? which is not often, but.. --- knights of cydonia 3/3 oh yeah this is why i remember liking muse they saved the best for last --- glorious 1/3 did not need a bonus track, cydonia is the correct ending

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

this album isn't bad, it's just not for me. i'm not really into ballads, and that holds consistently across the decades. great voice, heavy lyrics, solid performances all around fave: "when did you stop loving me, when did i stop loving you". reminds me of "options" by pedro the lion. i'm sure this song is a direct influence stellar album art

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

fades into the background. not mad at it?

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

great fusion album. i'll always miss the even tracks, except see the light

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

★★★★☆ still love this album, start to finish

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

not for me, but appreciate its influences?

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

cash is a great storyteller. could do with more folk-blues and less polka, but hey

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

there's some weak spots, like old wild men, but i switch from having a good time to loving it when clockwork creep hits. oh effendi is a great closer, i hear the future echoes of thundercat. as an album, reminds me of of montreal, and i almost want to say it's a more accessible entrypoint to weird rock like frank zappa

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

just seeing the album cover has the opening bars looping in my head. i was decades late to elliott smith, but his few albums get regular play. i first heard elliott smith the same day i heard mars volta, and it wasn't till a bit later i was able to find these artists again

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

> The Byrds' audience was used to groundbreaking experimentation from the band, but balked at the album's adoption of a genre they associated with conservative rednecks lmao just say racism. and i'm balking for the same reason five decades later > A relative failure on release lollllllllllllllllll > On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee > On April 3, King addressed a rally and delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" > King was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m., Thursday, April 4, 1968 > Between March 9 and March 15, 1968, the band, accompanied by several prominent session musicians, recorded multiple takes of eight songs at Columbia Records' recording studios in the Music Row area of Nashville.[11] Recording sessions for the album continued from April 4 through May 27, 1968, at Columbia Studios in Hollywood, so mlk jr is assassinated, and they decide to cosplay as sons of the confederacy? to aggressively court violent whiteness? fuck outta here ★☆☆☆☆ for this, any, and all byrd's albums

Queen II

Queen

3/5

queen is a band where i know the hits, but have never listened to their actual albums. not sure what i was expecting, but it wasn't to hear a solid rock album!

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

love this. but a slight quibble w/ the book.. > it paved the way for the continued success of experimentally-minded artists as diverse as Massive Attack, Radiohead, and Björk, to name just a few lol this is such a weird way to put it, when these bands — exempting radiohead, who wouldn't put out anything like this until kid a and amnesiac in 2000 & 2001 — paved the way for dj shadow's initial success with albums like: - tricky, maxinquaye, 1995 - massive attack, blue lines, 1991 - bjørk, post, 1995 - portishead, dummy, 1994 (edited)

Garbage

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

this album was not for me. i appreciate its influence? i'm glad musicians i like heard it and got excited and inspired?

Talvin Singh

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

incomplete experience unless you went for background on "dear mama" and ended up reading about afeni being arrested and charged with felony distribution of breakfast to poor school children, and later about that time in the eighties when philly cops dropped bombs on a whole neighbourhood

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

so much better than the birds, and thank the gods i was wrong about eric clapton being part of this fun album

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

the first bar of track one gave me a headache and i never got back to this. i'm gonna need someone to vet this for racism before i give it any time

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Pretty good stuff, prolly come back to this one

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

enjoyed my listen thru, but don't expect a second play

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

i'm giving this 4/5 on the strength of "don't worry bout a thing" alone, but the whole album was good

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

There's plenty of people making music that aren't racist shitheads. Hard pass.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

this was my first ever elton john album. i recognized a couple songs. he's good, but faded into the background on this go 'round. prolly need to queue it up again

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

not a fan of the album, but we're going all the way to 1/5 for personal conduct: “You’re not a real musician, because you don’t play an instrument.”

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

More miss than hit, but the hits are hits

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

hit and miss, but the hits were fun!

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

i know i'm 3/5 right now, but i suspect after another listen or two this is gonna be a four

Suicide

1/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

strong disagree with 1001 author PS's final line. bittersweet is verve at their best. is it an overplay? yes. is it better than any track on this album? yes! that's how it got overplayed!

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

The Stooges

3/5

according to wikipedia.. iggy: this is my soul elektra: we're not releasing this iggy: it's my baby elektra: your baby is ugly iggy: elektra: i can't believe we paid for your studio time iggy: ok what if it's at the end of side— elektra: you have other songs right? it's not just thirty minutes of moaning and aimless clapping? iggy: elektra: god help us iggy: no yeah we totally have other songs, just need to record them? elektra: you have one week and we're absolutely not publishing "we will fall"

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

★★★★☆ for psycho cupid - danceband on the edge of time but overall i wasn't into this

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

1/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

it'd be 3.5 if he hadn't written songs about fucking a thirteen year old, and had maybe chosen the blackwell/cooley lyrics of fever instead of peggy lee's genocidal version

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Future Days

Can

4/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

5/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5