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Album	You	Global	Diff
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	1	4.1	-3.1
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1	3.84	-2.84
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	1	3.41	-2.41
The Stooges The Stooges	1	3.26	-2.26
Wild Wood Paul Weller	1	3.09	-2.09
Smile Brian Wilson	1	3.06	-2.06
Untitled (Black Is) SAULT	1	3.05	-2.05
Hearts And Bones Paul Simon	1	3.03	-2.03
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	1	2.95	-1.95

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Crazy good. Would love to have been around when this came out. I’m sure it blew people away.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

I found it completely boring and musically just not that interesting

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Not my type of music and I sort of thought it was all over the place. That 2000 era beat was driving me crazy.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

I get what it was, I just didn’t care much for it. It had a few areas that weren’t terrible.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

You could tell this was the start of their transition. There were some good songs and some ok songs.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Pretty good. It's obviously dated, but almost in a good way.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Better than I thought it would be. I actually found myself bobbing my head along a couple of times.

Bad Company

2/5

It was ok. I understand the genre, and the time this was released, it just doesn't seem to hold up as well as some of the others.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

There is not an album that represents my youth more than this one. This came out when I was in middle school, and was on repeat for a very long time. This was the first album where I really started getting into music, and not just listening to what my parents had on the radio. It was, and still is, a perfect listening experience for me.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Pretty good. There was some good songs and a few that were just ok.

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Boring and whiny.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

1/5

This was terrible and sounded like a bunch of IT professionals who played in a band on the weekend at the local Applebees

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Really great album.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

I am embarrassed to say that I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. It had some pretty good melodies and wasn't terrible to listen to.

The Stooges

1/5

This was terrible

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

1/5

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

1/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Not my type of music. It wasn't really bad, it just didn't really jump out at me. It started to sound repetitious after a few songs.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

The Cars

4/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

1/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

It was kind of boring. You can start to see where he's headed, but there was a lot of monotony to it.

Smile

Brian Wilson

1/5

I didn't like this music when it originally came out and I definitely don't like it now. Just terrible.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

I loved this album when it came out. Listening to it years later, it kind drags on. There are a few songs that really sound great and others that are just sort of ok.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

2/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

1/5

Not my style of music and I didn't enjoy it at all. I'm sure it's great for what it is, but I really struggled to get through it.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

This was just weird...and not in a good way. It sounds sort of like a movie, and sort of like one of those books I got as a kid that came with a play along record. Either way, it was not good.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

The hits were still ok, but the rest of the album really drags on. The biggest issue is how it was mixed. It's just all middle with no low or high end. Also, can we all agree that RHCP lyrics are just bad. Literal nonsense.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

1/5

Like one long song that just wouldn't end. It literally hurt my brain listening to this. I'm guessing the only real way to handle this is on drugs at a rave?

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

There are so many albums in this genre that would have been much better picks. This is just insulting to those bands. Why would anyone think this is an album you just had to listen to before you died?!?!

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

The hits were good. The rest were filler and sounded like one song. It wasn't revolutionary. It sounded like a couple of bands from the 70's smashed together.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

I remember this differently. I shamefully admit that I thought some of these songs were bangers back then. Boy was I wrong. This was terrible. His voice is almost unlistenable.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

The Score

Fugees

2/5

It was ok. There were a few good songs, but then some of it was pretty basic. It definitely shows its age too.

Led Zeppelin

1/5

Ripped off music with an over-singer. I cannot stand them. Just pretentious crap. His voice irritates me so much. Go and listen to the actual blues artists they are copying instead of this watered-down British junk with no soul.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

This seemed like a couple of hits and a bunch of experimentation. Their earlier soulful stuff was so good.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

It was ok. I couldn't say it was something you needed to listen to before you die.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

I understand that the guy was great, but I could not get into this music. There were parts that sounded like a high school band warming up before a spring concert. It just sounded like noise to me.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

There were a few good songs. The rest of the album sounded like some teenagers who just learned to play instruments and started a band.

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

I know Radiohead are considered one of the best bands, but I just don't get this album. It sounds so experimental, without having any feeling. Technologically I'm sure it's great, but it has no soul.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

This was terrible. It sounded like a house band for an 80's hotel bar. Not one good song.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

This album was ok. Most of the songs sound like other bands and there is nothing remarkable about anything.

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5