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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Who Sell Out The Who	5	3	+2
A Seat at the Table Solange	5	3.01	+1.99
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	5	3.1	+1.9
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.28	+1.72
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
Atomizer Big Black	4	2.72	+1.28
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	1	3.43	-2.43
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
The Healer John Lee Hooker	1	3.19	-2.19
Metallica Metallica	2	3.79	-1.79
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	2	3.76	-1.76
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	2	3.55	-1.55
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.48	-1.48
The Poet Bobby Womack	2	3.21	-1.21
Technique New Order	2	3.17	-1.17
Pump Aerosmith	2	3.11	-1.11

5-Star Albums (7)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Just the worst.

3 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

An amazing final statement that is both reflective and hopeful. It is possibly slightly overrated because of the fact that it came out two days before he died, but still an incredibly strong last record. "Lazarus" is a top 10, maybe top 5 Bowie song.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

No album has any right to have two ballads as big as "Tuesday's Gone" and "Free Bird."

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

I know this is an unhip answer to 'favorite Steely Dan album,' but I think this is the strongest collection of songs they ever put out. "Barrytown" is an underrated classic.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

A very good album built around 3 great songs.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

More important than great, but still pretty good.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

When the ballads are too frequent and the pitching up of the vocals take over, it can be a bit of a drag. The classic double record that should've been one. But that one, hot damn.

Metallica

2/5

This is the crossover Metallica record, and there are good moments, but this loses a lot of what made Metallica special for me.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Totally new to me. I can see how this would've been a really unique synthesis of influences and sound at the time, but since then, others have done it better.

Foo Fighters

4/5

A classic from my childhood that holds up incredibly well.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

A very pleasant way to spend an hour.

Technique

New Order

2/5

Not even close to their best work.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

5/5

The best Who album by a country mile.

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

I’m more familiar with their earlier stuff, but this was excellent.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

The best or second best Zep record.

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

A lot of fun, a little too long.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

1/5

Why would they pick a shitty duets album to represent one of the best bluesmen of all time?

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

A little too long for what it is, but what it is is fucking rad.

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Fantastic. Utterly inspiring.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

An incredible record of an incredible moment.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

1/5

Painfully overrated.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

The bonus tracks take this from good to great. "Suspicious Minds" is the best Elvis song, don't @ me.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

A classic.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Gorillaz

3/5

The bangers are there, but there's a lot of chaff to be cut away to get to them.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Near-flawless

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Just the worst.

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Solid, but unremarkable.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Fantastic.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Meh.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Incredibly of its time, but not dated.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

What else is to be said?

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Very high highs, very low lows.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

A really fun album I should've have ignored for years.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Interesting enough, but should be half the length

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

A true classic.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

A transitional Beach Boys record, and one that is very pleasant, but not in their top 7 or 8 LPs to me.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

A cromulent pop album that dies in the final 1/3.

Joan Baez

3/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Prog rock bullshit, but good prog rock bullshit.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Perfect from top to bottom.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Fine, but nothing exceptional to my ears.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

A shambolic classic.

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Their best post-reunion album, but still too slick.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

A classic, but needs some diversity in tempo.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Top 5 Christmas album.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Shit sandwich

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

A classic, but doesn't reach the highs of the 1st or 3rd records.