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Album	You	Global	Diff
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	5	2.57	+2.43
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	5	3.21	+1.79
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.96	+1.04

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Album	You	Global	Diff
American Beauty Grateful Dead	1	3.24	-2.24
Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian	1	3.22	-2.22
Woodface Crowded House	1	3.1	-2.1
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Bill Callahan	1	3.02	-2.02
Play Moby	2	3.47	-1.47
Murmur R.E.M.	2	3.42	-1.42
Stardust Willie Nelson	2	3.4	-1.4
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
xx The xx	2	3.37	-1.37

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Pyromania

Def Leppard

5/5

Warm fuzzy 80s vibe, sick guitar riffs, passionate vocals, excellent harmonies. Every track is solid. This shit is good.

7 likes

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

Talky folk. Nope

5 likes

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

Excellent classic electronica. Wide variety of beats and moods. Fun to hear some stuff that ends up getting sampled by others later. Also makes me want to listen to some Orbital...

3 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Eh, it was alright. Great background for the right activity, but not really revelatory or interesting as a primary focus.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

1/5

Monotone. Off key. Devoid of emotional content other than glassy eyed contentment. They are like a hillbilly 70s cover band that never seems to actually capture the spirit of the songs they are covering.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

I don't think there were any hidden gems on this album. The good ones all got played a million times on the radio. Reasonably entertaining, but whole album feels fairly juvenile/simplistic (or maybe that's just nostalgia and age-association)

Risque

CHIC

2/5

So bad. Every song was 3x as long as it should have been and they all sounded the same.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

5/5

Warm fuzzy 80s vibe, sick guitar riffs, passionate vocals, excellent harmonies. Every track is solid. This shit is good.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

So 90s it hurts. Good energy, but overly polished sound and extreme sameness of the singers voice (or overall composition??) on every track makes it pretty uninteresting track to track. Catchy tho. Couldn't help but whine along at times... "A Place for My Head" stands out a bit - the rapping is more focal and screaming is a bit different than all the other tracks Did they have a different producer for last tracks of album?? "Forgotten" also pleasantly different, sort of a Alice in Chains vibe to the chorus.

Boston

3/5

Not bad. Pretty similar sound to all the tracks. Very classic rock feel, the vocals are sometimes not my favorite. Great guitar in some tracks.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Meh. Phil Spector is even crazier than I knew (see wiki)

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Like a whole album of the early Beatles folksy stuff. Inoffensive

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Pretty generic drone- acoustic. Meh.

Gorillaz

3/5

More eclectic than I would have anticipated! Remembered the couple of radio hits, but the rest were lots of experimental and varied sounding electronic tracks. Still, kind of dull and not really something I'd put on again

Woodface

Crowded House

1/5

Boo

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Some good bluesy/classic rock guitar rifs, but not the most riveting album overall

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Surprising range of genres. Classic rock, disco, proto-electronic, british invasion, queen, honky-tonk. Liked several tracks for later listing (Diary of Horace Wimp, Hold on Tight, Telephone Line, Showdown, Strange Magic). Pretty good stuff, but need to be in good mood (or in need of one..) when listening!

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

Lyrics kinda hidden behind music - oddly hard to parse for lyric focused music. Venom track is pretty good. Overall very monotone and some muzak level backgrounds. Meh.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Quite the slow burn intro. Honestly not as metal as anything modern. More akin to stoner/psychedelic rock. Delightfully fuzzy guitars and baleful vocals.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Starts of simple, unimpressive - but then weaves it's own mood/vibe as it goes. Found myself liking a lot of the less popular tracks that I was less familiar with.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

They have other songs! Oh no...second track is depressing as fuck... Some nice fuzzy guitar on Not Ready Yet. Still getting the "music to kill yourself by" vibe overall. Some tracks more fun than sad...but overall probably not putting this on again.

Play

Moby

2/5

Pretty repetitive first track. Boring. Same for second. 4th track holds up Some tracks have a decent groove. Mostly boring by modern standards. Even when considering only other ambient music. Also...like..a lot of cultural appropriation?

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Sounds pretty generic punky. Fun!

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

VERY distinctive 90s sound. Interesting the amount of overlap with early NIN stuff in terms of drum machines at least. Overall probably not one I'd put on, very flat vocals, at times gratingly so.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Pretty and Sad. John Wayne Gacy song is creepy. SAAAAD. JFC. Pretty though.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Little beatles-y, little Smashing Pumpkins-y, little White Stripes Some excellent blues-y guitar riffs and driving drums. Energetic, fun, modern punky rock feel. Kinda monotonous by the time you get to the second disc.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Sick! Grundge exemplified. Still mostly just enjoying the popular hits, but good overall. Also Heroin! So many heroin lyrics!

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Didn't recognize her name, but did recognize the top track! (Gloria). Next track was unremarkable and I had to skip Birdland after 3min. Talking is not singing. So much talk singing. Not really enjoying the rest of this album.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Slow songs are horrible. Funky fast songs are great! Really like Contusion, Sir Duke and whatever came after that one

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

This album is better than the first, tighter and better production. Not sure why they are both included, I think one album accurately represents them as there are not major differences between them.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Hard to judge this away from my dad and other boomer exceptionalism. I like Dylan...but there's just so much about him that's wrapped up in the ego and politics of his time...it's hard to enjoy purely. Ultimately I'm not sure it's really my cup of tea anyway, perhaps that's why I fixate on the peripheral aspects of him. Some tracks are fascinatingly complex and surreal, but all of it heavily overlayed with cynicism. Also his voice is really flat.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Tinny, silly, gutless...but yeah sure. I guess I can hear the metal roots underneath. Still...pretty rough listening. 2nd track is better. Got some soul to it. Gets better as it goes. Really underserved by the recording technology.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

MEH. Also wtf, why do people enjoy listening to singers who sing flat? So grating. Couldn't make it past halfway. Whiny garbage.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

1st track pretty rough 2nd track better. Clearly a lot of influential sounds.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Experimental music for sad sacks and sentimentalists.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Good stuff. A bit monotone at times, but would absolutely put this album on again. Enjoyed the louder stuff more than the quiet

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Initially: recognizable. Cheesy. Nostaligic...but in a 70s theatrical way. I really wanted to dislike it. Unfortunately it's relentlessly upbeat and catchy, while also complex in composition and with interesting slice of life/observational quality to it. UGH. Good shit.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Every song is amazing. Favorites: Since I been loving you, Gallows pole, Tangerine, Bron-y-aur stomp

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Like punky-er Rolling Stones. Pretty decent!

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Excellent! Like Tribe...but maybe even better? More interesting beats overall

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Never listened to this one! Kinda reminds me of Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money. Got that really goofy scrawny white guy singing exaggerated blues vibe. Honestly a bit cringy...

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Pretty well produced. Very clear, modern sounding. Low key acoustic for a rainy day. Probably a little too country for me to actually put on, but some nice tracks here and there.

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Catchy fun!

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Put it on when you want to pretend you're in a light hearted 80s movie! Some songs excellent...others required a skip. Super classic 80s vibe through and through tho. Sun always shines is a crazy good track I'd never heard before. Some higher energy/electronic tracks def stand above the slower/quieter stuff. Can hear a lot of inspiration for modern synthwave and 90s industrial music in there.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

JAAAAAZZZZ!

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Some songs alright. Somehow all of them feel like they are 7 to 10 min long...even when they're really onyl 3-5. I guess i find them repetitive.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

5/5

Really impressive diversity of beats. Unique to anything else I've heard. Fun, clever, slice of life lyrics. Good stuff!

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Oh look more 60s folksy psychedelic rock....anyway...

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Amazing. Great energy, great recording. Probably the best live album i've ever heard

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

It's the big one. I like it.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Energizing! Olde Time-y! Brassy! Blam! Pow! Splash! Also what a crazy album cover for a jazz album. Great symbolism of both the energy of the album and of the atomic age in general.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Not poorly made, but not for me

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

The more I hear of 60s psychedelic rock the less the unique the beatles seem. Maybe these are all imitators...but maybe they're all just sorta the same.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

Weird composition choices. Lyrics belong on r/Im14andthisisdeep

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Better than the other chili peppers album...but bailed about half way through. Just a lot of the same sound

The Cars

3/5

Pretty generic 80s. Nothing too inspiring or memorable for me, though obviously a few recognizable major hits

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

1st - track - Zepplin guitar 2nd track - Pearl jam guitar 3rd track - Rolling stones? It may be derivative...but damn. It's basically built for my tastes. I remember liking them a lot in high school!

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

Excellent classic electronica. Wide variety of beats and moods. Fun to hear some stuff that ends up getting sampled by others later. Also makes me want to listen to some Orbital...

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

So classic. A really unique sound and energy that is instantly recognizable.

The xx

2/5

Why do people like singers who are constantly off-key?

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Sounds like sesame st.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

Talky folk. Nope

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5