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Album	You	Global	Diff
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Among The Living Anthrax	4	2.85	+1.15
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	4	2.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	1	3.32	-2.32
Pump Aerosmith	1	3.11	-2.11
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	3.09	-2.09
Fear and Whiskey Mekons	1	2.6	-1.6
Opus Dei Laibach	1	2.39	-1.39
The La's The La's	2	3.15	-1.15
Hypnotised The Undertones	2	3.06	-1.06

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That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Pretty funky, although the highlight for me (All About Love) is a slow-time ballad.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Not my cup of tea.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Wow, I think I like prog music now?

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Very talented, and clearly positioned in the chain of influence towards modern singer-songwriters.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

I think maybe the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are too cool for me to understand

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Very good album top to bottom. It feels so modern, considering it came out in 1989!

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Great rock and roll, The Nazz Are Blue was a highlight. RIP Jeff Beck -- what a guitar tone!

Technique

New Order

3/5

Fine, but not NO's best work.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Leonard Cohen is a genius.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

I knew I liked it, but still it's been a few years since I listened to Siamese Dreams all the way through. Still a great album, and now tinged with sweet nostalgia.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

A completely new band / album for me, and I liked it a lot! The heavier drumstep parts were a bit too much for me on a Tuesday morning, but the synthier elements were lush!

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

1/5

I'm sure it's good, but maybe I just don't like jazz?

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

One of the greats, for a reason.

Gorillaz

5/5

Well, I like Gorillaz

Pump

Aerosmith

1/5

Wow, Aerosmith kinda suck? It's particularly jarring since I just listened to Back in Black -- an absolutely classic hard rock album. By comparison, Pump seemed so trite and boring.

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

I'm not much of a thrash guy, and I don't think that this album will make me a thrash guy, but it was high-octane fun.

The La's

2/5

Not particularly memorable -- more like The Blah's by The Blah's!

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Great album, still sounds very modern decades after its release.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

I imagine that if I liked bossa nova more, this would have been a 4 or 5. As is, it's a perfectly good album

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Wow, what a great album! The title track is a 10/10, and the album is brimming with bangers from start to finish.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

I'm guessing that the selection committee for these albums was mainly old white English dudes.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

I knew a few stand-out tracks (Chan Chan, El Cuart de Tula, De Camino a La Vereda), but listening to the whole album all the way through was a real treat!

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Very strong story telling, and a good insight into how Eminem dealt with absolutely blowing up with fame (i.e.: badly). Very transgressive, and it's interesting to think about how to balance the artistic value against the intentional offensiveness. Overall, I enjoyed it.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

A groundbreaking album when it came out, now it sounds slightly dated.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say -- I'm sick of post-punk country music.

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Couldn't finish it -- not at all my cup of tea.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Extremely good album, filled with extremely good songs. The harmonies are so tight, and the musicality is incredibly fresh.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

What can I say about SITKOL that hasn't already been said? It's an incredible album throughout. Strong singles, no filler. I think I prefer Innervisions, but this is still an absolutely classic album for a reason.

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5