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Album	You	Global	Diff
Take to the Skies Enter Shikari	5	2.41	+2.59
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire	5	2.46	+2.54
Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!	5	2.51	+2.49
Mouth Sounds Neil Cicierega	5	2.55	+2.45
The Beautiful Letdown Switchfoot	5	2.6	+2.4
Game of Fools Koritni	5	2.66	+2.34
Human Racing Nik Kershaw	5	2.68	+2.32
Savage Sinusoid Igorrr	5	2.78	+2.22
Come On Come On Mary Chapin Carpenter	5	2.78	+2.22
The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads Lift To Experience	5	2.81	+2.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Piñata Freddie Gibbs	1	2.85	-1.85

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Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

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Crack the Skye

Mastodon · 3 likes

5/5

My second favorite metal band. It goes hard without the drums breaking your skull, the screams shattering your ears, or the guitar melting your face. Truely awesome.

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang of Youths · 2 likes

5/5

It started slow and a little country and I didn't think I'd like it, but I cannot stop listening. For listens in and I'm in love with orchestral springstreen. Gorgeous songs, beautiful emotion.

Quadrophenia

The Who · 2 likes

5/5

Great little rock opera

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx · 1 likes

5/5

Gorgeous and evocative.

10,000 Days

TOOL · 1 likes

5/5

Awesome sound, I don't know that it's for me, but it's perfect.

1-Star Albums (2)

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Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

5/5

Beautifully constructed, rocks hard, feels hard

Chocolate Synthesizer

Boredoms

3/5

While Lightning Bolt comes down barely on the music side of the divide, Boredoms comes down just barely on the noise side of the divide. It's so close to amazing but it's too painful

10,000 Days

TOOL

5/5

Awesome sound, I don't know that it's for me, but it's perfect.

Sublime

5/5

Refining the project started by UB40 to sing Ragea about your own experience, Sublime using off beat guitar to croon about the plight of urban poor, and it hits just right. Santeria is a perfect song, and the rest supports it well. 10/10.

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

John Coltrane

5/5

The most approachable Coltrane

"Awaken, My Love!"

Childish Gambino

5/5

While not quite having moment to moment music theory perfection, the psychedelic dream state of profundity and beauty is something really special

Stage Four

Touché Amoré

5/5

What a beautiful gift. I cried for more than half the run time. My new favorite album

Mouth Sounds

Neil Cicierega

5/5

The Mouth cycle are my four actual favorite albums, I just didn't know we got to count them as real music since they are so obviously musical shit posts.

Lemonade

Beyoncé

5/5

Sexy furious fun

Erratic Cinematic

Gerry Cinnamon

5/5

Gorgeous, the Dialect adds so much

A Salty Dog

Procol Harum

5/5

Great sixties guitar band sound

Quadrophenia

The Who

5/5

Great little rock opera

The Impossible Kid

Aesop Rock

5/5

My favorite rapper doing some of his best work! Blood Sandwich, Shrunk, Lotta Years, Get Out of the Car, so many top 1000 tracks on one album.

Damien Rice

5/5

Very pretty, and emotive enough to hold interest

Symbolic

Death

4/5

I don't like death metal as much with a tenor. Otherwise, perfection.

Forced Witness

Alex Cameron

4/5

Somehow simultaneously fun and painful. Dips a little too far into misery porn for my taste.

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx

5/5

Gorgeous and evocative.

Operation Ivy

4/5

It was good but too long. By the end I couldn't tell one song from the next. It's hard for punk to get boring, but it definitely wasn't holding interest.

The art of Amalia Rodrigues

Amália Rodrigues

3/5

Pretty, but did not do enough musically to get me past the language barrier

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

5/5

So much fun in every track.

Wildflowers

Tom Petty

4/5

Something about this worked. On paper not my thing, but in practice quite nice.

Year of the Cat

Al Stewart

4/5

Some really interesting tunes

Nuyorican Soul

5/5

So cool, amazing flow, incredible groove

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Vince Guaraldi Trio

5/5

THE BEST CHRISTMAS ALBUM OF ALL TIME

Savage Sinusoid

Igorrr

5/5

Truly awesome. The mixture of basically dub-step with metal is inspired.

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

5/5

The cancer ballad was the only weak point in an otherwise pitch perfect production

Stop Making Sense

Talking Heads

5/5

The Best of the Talking Heads in a fantastic live performance. Was the recording the best? No. But the music was.

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

4/5

Didn't care for the vocals, too middle of the road between strong and pretty. Could really have benefitted from some instrumental variety, the guitar drums and bass always sounded the same. Strong start and finish though

Portishead

5/5

Melancholic atmosphere and ethereal vocals takes you on a transcendental journey

This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!

Pop Will Eat Itself

3/5

Cool sounds, okay music

Odyssey Number Five

Powderfinger

4/5

Some great variety keeping a fun throughline

No.1 In Heaven

Sparks

3/5

Great production, innovative sound, lackluster voice and ineffective vocal choices

No Balance Palace

Kashmir

4/5

The dark palace track felt out of place, but the rest of the album was atmospherically awesome

Stories

Avicii

4/5

Didn't care for the voice, and it felt a little too lowest common denominator, especially in the choruses, but the verses were lyrical and specific enough and the sounds diverse enough to make it a nice album

Phantom Power

The Tragically Hip

5/5

What an awesome album, so diverse. Feels like REM but more approachable

LUX

ROSALÍA

5/5

Turns out my least favorite thing about modern pop is inane lyrics, so when they're in Spanish I love it!

Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Courtney Barnett

5/5

The story telling through both instrument and lyrics are perfect. May not be my favorite vocal style, but immaculate construction

Dogrel

Fontaines D.C.

4/5

I didn't love the talk song, but it was definitely unique and interesting

Gemstones

Adam Green

2/5

Is the point the spite? I get it's an ironic callback, I don't get the enjoyment

Artpop

Lady Gaga

3/5

Starts off so strong with Aura and then fails to maintain interest.

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

3/5

I don't know if this is better if you understand the lyrics.

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

5/5

Like just the operatic parts of queen, or a slightly more mainstream Of Montreal, a great time all around

Live At Madison Square Garden

Vulfpeck

5/5

So much fun

The Decline

NOFX

5/5

Inspiring rock. Awesome punk.

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

4/5

Punk sensibilities. None of these songs rise to the level of The Cattle and the Creeping Things but would definitely listen again

My Brain Hurts

Screeching Weasel

4/5

Nice sound, a little homogenous

Café Tacvba

5/5

Such a diverse and awesome sound! From punk rock to prog to mariachi, kept me engaged without understanding a single word

People Watching

Sam Fender

5/5

Beautiful varied and evocative

Modern Vampires of the City

Vampire Weekend

4/5

Starts slow but gets there eventually. Not my favorite Vampire Weekend album but much better than I remember from 2013

Boxer

The National

5/5

My second favorite the National Album! Mistaken for Strangers made the fall in love with this band

Comfort To Me

Amyl and The Sniffers

5/5

Punk is best when the singer is sing shouting in a dialect you can barely understand. More please

Relatives in Descent

Protomartyr

5/5

With the exception of Malone, anything with Post in the the name is awesome. I didn't know Post Punk was a top five genre. Now I do. Thanks Protomartyr.

The Fame

Lady Gaga

4/5

Maybe it sounds dated with time and exposure, but there is little of this album that feels inspired or original. Paparazzi is still a great song though.

Fly

Yoko Ono

1/5

Oh, so this is what no editing sounds like. What a waste of time. The single most interesting piece was the 30 seconds of toilet flushing. This was not music, this was uninspired performance art noise. This album's inclusion in this list was cruel.

Is Ellipsis

Psyche Origami

5/5

the scratching, the flow, the swagger, impeccable.

Racine carrée

Stromae

5/5

I suspect I would have hated this in english, but in Belgian it feels fresh and innovative and very cool

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

5/5

I liked this album. I did not expect to want to listen to it 4 times. Turns out I love this album.

Oceanic

ISIS

4/5

postrock-esque. I'm uncertain if it was made better or worse by being incomprehensible. Maybe it was trite, maybe it was profound, and I don't want to open that mystery box to find out lest disappointment strike.

Eye

Robyn Hitchcock

2/5

Maybe there was something here, but I didn't find it.

Come On Come On

Mary Chapin Carpenter

5/5

What gorgeous stories. Country is not my thing, but this packs in so much emotion that I cannot deny the mastery.

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

That was the greatest disco album ever made. Perfection start to finish, perfect polish and still has soul

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

5/5

My second favorite metal band. It goes hard without the drums breaking your skull, the screams shattering your ears, or the guitar melting your face. Truely awesome.

Telefone

Noname

5/5

Rap and Jazz is such an obvious combination, I cannot believe we're not doing it way way more. Beautiful.

Take to the Skies

Enter Shikari

5/5

I never would have expected to enjoy screamo electronica, but this hits right

Milo Goes to College

Descendents

3/5

Does punk really have to be pubescent? It was well performed but I don't get the appeal.

Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!

Gotcha!

5/5

The dutch are funky? The genre hopping was fun, and while it didn't quite rise to the level of Ozomatli, That Handsome Devil, or Funkadelic, that they could give shades of such diverse bands was mind boggling.

Set Yourself On Fire

Stars

5/5

I'd loved Your Ex-Lover is Dead for a decade, it's wonderful to find the rest of the album is almost as beautiful and melancholic

Poesía Básica

Extrechinato y Tu

4/5

Very cool.

TEKKNO

Electric Callboy

3/5

This had all the right ingredients and I should have loved it, but it just felt hollow and lifeless.

Enema Of The State

blink-182

5/5

Is the album any good? Dunno, don't care, I love it.

El Circo

Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio

5/5

Goes hard, very cool sound, love the refutation of the mariachi laugh

Chet

Chet Baker

5/5

What gorgeous trumpet jazz, just perfect

Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure

5/5

Such a beautiful meloncholic end of the world

Ruin

The Amazing Devil

5/5

If God made us all in his image then he's a fucking nerd

To Be Kind

Swans

3/5

Had some really great tracks like Screen Shot and She loves Me but the majority dragged

Sunset Mission

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore

5/5

Gorgeous dark melancholic background saxophone jazz. It has a job, and it does it beautifully.

Last Splash

The Breeders

5/5

Not a bad track on the album. I just love alt-rock.

Human Racing

Nik Kershaw

5/5

Truly the most gloriously 80's synth album

Atrocity Exhibition

Danny Brown

2/5

Love the guest verses, Despise Danny Brown's vocal affect, gross. Obligatory extra point off for blatant Misogyny.

Contra

Vampire Weekend

5/5

The album has way more energy and interest than I remembered. Vibrant and fun. Lacks some of the coherency and whimsy from the self titled album, but still very much worth the listen

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang of Youths

5/5

It started slow and a little country and I didn't think I'd like it, but I cannot stop listening. For listens in and I'm in love with orchestral springstreen. Gorgeous songs, beautiful emotion.

Smell No Evil

Ookla The Mok

3/5

Okay comedy album

In Between Dreams

Jack Johnson

4/5

I know ever song of the album and I like most of them. Beautiful and occasionally sublime, but largely innoffensive

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

5/5

Much like I only thought Metalica was okay until I heard their live album, I only thought Daft Punk was pretty good until I heard their live album. Blew me away.

Vedergällningen

Garmarna

4/5

Pretty german folk metal, but nothing super interesting

Polygondwanaland

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

4/5

This was good, but doesn't rise to the high of nonogon or king crimson album, still a very fun ride.

The Grass Is Blue

Dolly Parton

5/5

Dolly is perfection, her blue grass is no exception

Alexisonfire

5/5

I wished I understood any of the words, and I still thought it was note perfect

Cor-Crane Secret

Polvo

3/5

I love mathrock, but this just feels badly sung and poorly mastered .

Save Rock And Roll

Fall Out Boy

3/5

I'm not sure why I like Sugar We're Going Down and Dance Dance don't much enjoy any of this. Light 'Em Up in particular lacks teeth. It's fine. The acoustic guitars on Young Volcanoes was a bad choice.

This Land

Gary Clark Jr.

5/5

Tour of america blues perfection. I thought I didn't like the blues. I was so wrong

The Evil One

Roky Erickson

4/5

Got more into it as the album went on. Solid enough

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Lift To Experience

5/5

CAKE cross EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY.

California

Mr. Bungle

5/5

TIL the best The Beach Boys album isn't by The Beach Boys

For All Happy Endings

David & The Citizens

5/5

Brilliant

How To Be A Human Being

Glass Animals

5/5

Some really great electronic numbers

Okonokos

My Morning Jacket

3/5

Very decent concert

AmarElo

Emicida

3/5

I was starting to get into it, and the onesided phone conversation I couldn't understand a word of killed all musical momentum and took me out. I'm sure it was brilliant, but its also obviously not aimed at me. This is a good thing, there should be music aimed at more niche audiences, more niche music is a good thing, but since I'm the one rating it it has to be my rating.

Crystal Castles

5/5

Riding the edge of discomfort is an awesome place to be fore pop electronica. Joyous, evocative, driving, perfect.

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

5/5

More sugary brass band please!

Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree

3/5

I'm not sure what was unique and interesting about this album. I put it on twice and done remember much.

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

5/5

Huh, so Bjork is not the only weirdo norweigian female popstar. What a delight.

My Morning Jacket

5/5

The album starts off so strong that I don't even care it falls off quickly. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it after their live album failed to move me

Clarity

Jimmy Eat World

5/5

While not JimEaWo's best album reduced me to a teenager in my bedroom hoping my crush likes me and I loved every second

Dimanche à Bamako

Amadou & Mariam

5/5

Gorgeous diverse sound, such fun

Ruby Vroom

Soul Coughing

4/5

The most punk attitude, but they care just a little too little about pitch.

Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws

Bruce Cockburn

5/5

Surprisingly varied song writing, fun album

Geogaddi

Boards of Canada

5/5

It's such a solid concept. It doesn't hold up for an hour, but no matter which half hour you pick it's gonna be good

Deltron 3030

5/5

Del the funky Homosapian has my favorite flow+voice of anyone who has ever spit. He may not write my favorite verses with my favorite production, but if anyone was gonna acapella rap, del is who I'd want to hear.

Piñata

Freddie Gibbs

1/5

So this album seems to be about... mysogyny! Great. Love that for us.

Foxes in the Snow

Jason Isbell

5/5

My new favorite country album. Diverse attitudes and themes, beautiful guitar and voice work, searingly specific lyrics.

The Beautiful Letdown

Switchfoot

5/5

My favorite album as a teenager. Even now if you take out the Christian baggage, it's a beautiful hopeful message in every song. Gorgeous.

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

3/5

I just can't get past the subpar vocals. Perhaps a better recording technique would have mitigated the feeling of a lack of vocal power, but it feels like it would be epic in the voice of a better singer.

Korn

4/5

I was waiting for the discomfort and the final track delivered it. Loved the rest of the album, would skip the final track in the future.

Joy as an Act of Resistance

IDLES

5/5

An approachable IDLES album with such an amazing message! Count me in.

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

4/5

Good atmosphere, like the voice, nothing stood out as unique to me

Vs.

Pearl Jam

5/5

The veder voice is so good, and I'm struggling to place what makes their instrumentation effortlessly awesome, but it is

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

4/5

Amazingly diverse sound given the age and source

Get Rich Or Die Ryan

Spose

2/5

Three good tracks, World War Blues dudes and Hey Big Guy, the rest are okay at best, and even those three have been done better by better rappers. And Spose should really get other people to sing.

A Complicated Woman

Self Esteem

4/5

69 is the best club anthem I've ever heard. Such a fun album.

Rêver mieux

Daniel Bélanger

4/5

beautiful music. Who knows whether it would be better or worse if I understood it.

Give Up

The Postal Service

5/5

Wait, why isn't the greatest album ever on the base list? I could have sworn it was

Sunbather

Deafheaven

4/5

The Screaming from the next room works really well, love that concept a ton, I will remember the first song fondly. But they really need some sonic diversity, it felt like the same song three times.

Real Life

Joan As Police Woman

5/5

Eternal Flame, Christobel and an Anohni cameo, filled with melodic and lyrical beautify, what more could you want?

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

5/5

Diverse enough to hold interest throughout which is not simple for a eighty minute album

Piano Bar

Charly García

3/5

Okay classic rock and I cannot understand the lyrics. Not for me.

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Yo La Tengo

3/5

I want to Love Yo La Tengo. Decora and Black Flowers are formative songs. But without forced attention they just aren't interesting

Older

Lizzy McAlpine

4/5

Ethereal Waif done extremely well

My Love Is Cool

Wolf Alice

5/5

Brilliant alt rock. The first track didn't capture me, but the rest of the album was a rocketship with very little dead air.

Game of Fools

Koritni

5/5

It's like if Def Leopard was polished to a perfect crowd pleasing sheen. Delightful.

Uncovered

Zamilska

4/5

Horror trance is fun. Did not live it as much the second time through, gains a lot from novelty