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Album	You	Global	Diff
Grace	5	3.71	+1.29
Among The Living	4	2.86	+1.14
A Night At The Opera	5	3.96	+1.04

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Album	You	Global	Diff
We're Only In It For The Money	1	2.47	-1.47
The Beach Boys Today!	2	3.27	-1.27
The Idiot	2	3.21	-1.21
Screamadelica	2	3.17	-1.17
You're Living All Over Me	2	3.07	-1.07
The Last Broadcast	2	3.05	-1.05

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Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

I don’t know. I just couldn’t get into it.

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Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

More of a 3.5 for me, but since that’s not an option and I enjoyed the later tracks more than the earlier ones, I’m rounding up. Overall had fun listening to it.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Started out enjoying this, but it lost me in the middle somewhere.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Some fun tracks, but not something I would usually listen to a whole album of. It did inspire some adorable toddler dancing, though.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Found a few of the transitions between songs a bit jarring, but otherwise so good.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Enjoyed this more than I expected. Found it accessible and it suited my mood.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Enjoyed this from start to finish, the familiar songs and the new-to-me ones, too. Plus, Bohemian Rhapsody.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

The La's

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

I don’t know. I just couldn’t get into it.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Sort of liked Buzzin’ Fly. Otherwise can’t say I was a fan.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Good one to work out to.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

I liked it okay, but none of the songs other than the couple I already knew stood out to me.

High Violet

The National

3/5

Back and forth between a three and a four on this one. Didn’t really catch me until Runaway, then there were a few others I also liked. In the end, enough of it was unremarkable for me that I’m going with a three.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

My thoughts on finishing this album were something along the lines of: What just happened? I feel like my brain is leaking out of my ears. Did people get paid actual money to do this? I only listened to the first 15-20 seconds of most tracks because that's all I could take. Not even "so bad it's good."

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

2/5

Well, that was disappointing after Lust for Life. Didn't care for this one.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Really enjoyed this. Could have done without Jamaica Jerk-Off. (Haha, I see I’m not the only one who feels that way.)

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Whoa. Not quite a 5 for me, but wish I could give it a 4.5.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

I can get why it was included, but I just couldn’t really get into it.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

I was listening while I was cleaning the house and sort of kept forgetting I was listening to it. I didn't dislike it, but just sort of meh.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Not a good sign when a two minute long song feels too long. A couple were kind of catchy, but mostly I found them annoying.

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

I liked this but found it mostly unremarkable. Every once in a while a song would make me think, yep, this is Queen.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Started out just sort of meh for me and then I feel like it got progressively weirder, and not in a good way.

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Enjoyed this. Also, it helped me power through some of my mountain of housework during nap time, which is I'm sure exactly what they had in mind for their music.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5