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Album	You	Global	Diff
Faust IV Faust	5	2.78	+2.22
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	5	3.17	+1.83
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	4	2.68	+1.32
Cut The Slits	4	2.71	+1.29
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.74	+1.26
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
LP1 FKA twigs	4	2.8	+1.2
Like Water For Chocolate Common	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	2	3.61	-1.61
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.56	-1.56
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	2	3.42	-1.42
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.42	-1.42
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	2	3.4	-1.4
Smash The Offspring	2	3.37	-1.37
Bad Company Bad Company	2	3.26	-1.26
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	2	3.22	-1.22
Country Life Roxy Music	2	3.11	-1.11
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	3	4.1	-1.1

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Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Listened to it previously.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Good a side but the back half lags.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Classic!

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Surprisingly guitar heavy outside of the singles and a bit more...prog than I was expecting in there extended breakdowns/solos.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

The guitar is iconic and the vocals work within the genre. A majority of the lyrics can be pretty dumb. But if that's what you want you got it.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Early beastie boys is almost weird al Yankovic level parody of run dmc.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

This resonates to a late 90s early 00s soundtrack. It's like quintessential of that time in mind. The field recordings of NYC pimps and drug dealers feels a little exploitative.

Cut

The Slits

4/5

Enjoyed it quite a lot! Can hear the reggae/Ska sound in it that was punk at the time right?

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

I really like this album start to finish. Iconic. Musically tight. Made me nostalgic for the time in which it was made.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

It's really "fun" but juvenile. Reads like journeymen entertainers on the circuit getting exposed to more earnest punk acts and packaging it in a more palatable form. I can see kids of the time thinking they like punk rock with this as their only sample point.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

Solid record

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Amazing

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Surprisingly fun but short and repetitive. Can feel the energy of excitement around the new rock and roll sound

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

David Bowie did not musically wow me on this album. But Bowie for the size of his catalog, doesn't wow me a ton musically. He does however export that artistry that supercedes his music. He's an entire experience. So this album in a vacuum is pretty mid for me but I don't hold it against Bowie at all because with him it was never just an album. Since I'm rating the music I have to be honest.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Solid album, can really hear the classic folk inspiration in Dylans delivery of timeless(sadly) messages of peace. I think what's interesting about Dylans lyrics are I feel myself knowing what he's going to say before he says it since they're simple enough but they're still enjoyable.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Totally appreciate them but not for me. The songs back to back become grating and repetitive.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Pretty fun

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

I was surprised by how much I liked this. Felt more like hair metal than what I think of as metal.

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Really liked it. Calm syncopated sounds.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Pretty middle of the road for me, buoyed by the genre diversity on display.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Pretty chill and sexy

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

I love this album and was very happy to told to listen to it.

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

I think this plays out as maybe culturally important and "right place right time" musically. I don't hear anything that wows me, but maybe in the context of 'this band (that is in the collective consciousness at the time) did a great album for them so it gets accolades for it. But devoid of that context it's just an OK album.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

I did not think I'd like this as much as I did. Solid from start to finish.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Solid album but didn't wow me

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

I can't deny that this is a very good album but it's hard to divorce it from when it came out. I'd give a 3 or 4 based of the music and the content. The fact that Bowie created an epitaph in vinyl is so apt to him that it should be a 5. But I've not been taking that into account with others so I can't here.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

I'm split on this, a lot of classic songs but also some clunkers. Ooby dooby was poor. And some of the a side had some solid blues rock.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

I never thought I'd like this album as much as I did based off the name.

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Great album that I didn't "get" initially when it came out. It's calm but confronting.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Vocally impressive but pretty boring to me

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

Quintessential sound but not for me

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

The Kinks

3/5

Pretty good, never listened to it but was an impactful anti war message.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Pretty boring outside the single. Some of the songwriting was painful.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I'm shocked but I actually really liked this start to finish. I never thought radiohead was for me. But I think before there big turn in kid a I might enjoy it more. Haven't listened to ok computer but I'm sure it's in this list.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

The first track was very guns n' roses so I was a bit uninterested and then the Ska kicked in and I was wowed. Unfortunately there's a couple of those OK rock songs interspersed in the great Ska. I'm torn between a 3 and 4 because of that.

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

I expected to hate this because I don't think I like those Yorks falsetto vocals. However I ended up enjoying the atmosphere of the album much more than I thought

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Solid live album. Lots of lyrics around doing drugs, violence towards, women, violence towards self, violence in general.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Fine album but didn't wow me

Faust IV

Faust

5/5

This album immediately engaged me and I loved it. So diverse and special.

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Impressive fusion of genres and performed masterfully. But for me, an overall bored experience.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Some stand out classics and some songs I hadn't heard before that I enjoyed but overall the tracks were very similar, nit much variation.

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

I was surprised by the depth of this albums tracks, I only remember the titular track as being from this album, and thought the rest were from earlier albums. Pretty surface level commentary. I think this album got turned into a musical and I can see why you could really thread a narrative of a despondent youth through the songs.

Bad Company

2/5

Pretty boring

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Kinda of cool to see the connective tissue between hair metal and more modern metal represented by the offspring here.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Boring and melodramatic. Run of the mill Morrissey but I get how he was poignant for a generation

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

It's not loveless and that burdens it for me. Still some really great songs on it.

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Fine I just don't think I like the instrumentation/production which I recognize was of its time and seminal.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

These were all pretty energetic and fun but it's a bit holier than thou lyrics.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Enjoyable but not amazing

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Solid. Holds up both as DNA to everything that comes after it and as a stand alone album

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

5/5

I was surprised by how much I liked this. I didn't previously engage with Bragg or wilco or woody Guthrie. Yet I found myself tapping my toe to most of these songs and enjoying the lyricism.

Boston

4/5

One of my dad's favorites so I'm unescapably baised towards it. But that is a killer a side.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5