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Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	5	3.2	+1.8
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.21	+1.79
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.51	+1.49
Brothers The Black Keys	5	3.57	+1.43
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	5	3.58	+1.42
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.6	+1.4
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Score Fugees	1	3.69	-2.69
White Blood Cells The White Stripes	1	3.67	-2.67
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.34	-2.34
Darklands The Jesus And Mary Chain	1	3.22	-2.22
Treasure Cocteau Twins	1	3.08	-2.08
Fever Ray Fever Ray	1	2.99	-1.99
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	1	2.84	-1.84
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.66	-1.66
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.61	-1.61

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Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Moondance is an album that’s a favourite of my partner. I’m only half particular to it. It’s mostly just there.

Gorillaz

3/5

Paul Simon

5/5

I always knew that Paul Simon was wasted as part of that duo. I’ve known since Graceland at least. Never have I delved deeper into his discography than that seminal album, because I was already deeply engrossed in other styles of music. I absolutely love this album though. A testament to the genius of Simon compared to the weakness of Garfunkel.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

I like the more rawly produced rap of NWA, Immortal Technique and Wu Tang more than the typically more polished East Coast rap. Jay-Z is objectively a good rapper and producer, but I’m just not that into his style. Best song on the album: Takeover. (The rawest song on the album)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

I’m not really feeling this. Make mine Arrested Development. Too much frilly things. Just not my thing.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Yeah! I just love this record.

S&M

Metallica

2/5

I got this album when it came out in ‘99. Of the two originals on the album I like No Leaf Clover best. Sometimes the orchestra adds something (like in No Leaf Clover), but most of the times I’m quite dissatisfied with the lack of effort by Kamen to actually add anything new to the already existing songs. I really liked the album in ‘99, nowadays I’m more ambivalent towards it.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

It’s definitely a downward spiral. I really don’t like this. Make mine the Nine Inch Snails: Give me some salt And turn me to gel A whole lot better dan NIN, to my ears at least.

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

I really hated this album when it came out. I felt it was such a departure from what made Sepultura good. Let’s see how time has affected me in my appreciation of this crossover album. Not well, I must say… I still am underwhelmed by what is offered.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

I knew the two hit singles beforehand. The rest is just filling in my opinion.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

This held up really well

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

This is not something I will ever be interested in

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

It’s just that he can’t sing…

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Start of doom, heavy and stoner metal, this album. It’s still awesome, still utterly mesmerising and listenable.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Of course I’m more than familiar with Life’s What You Make It. I love the vocals, but I’m less particular to the build up of the record. Maybe if I had listened to it earlier in my life, at a more impressionable age, I would have thought more of the album.

Fever Ray

1/5

What an annoying, maddening record… I couldn’t wait to be finished with this ordeal. This is the kind of music customer services put on when they don’t actually want you to keep waiting….

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Yes, it’s supposed to be the album which showed the world that the Beatles could actually write songs, and started to experiment, which would ultimately lead to Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, yadiyadiyadiyadi… But it’s still Beatles and not the Rolling Stones. I just have not the patience for an entire album of this polished britpop.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

1/5

Pffffffffffff

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

This is one solid album. I remember this one being a favourite of my brother’s for a long time.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Decent music, not something I would listen to.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

2/5

Ok music, not something I would listen to outside this context.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

I knew The Mars Volta beforehand and I’m always keen to listen to songs of theirs. Somehow, however, their debut has always eluded me. I like it a lot, but I guess I like the later work even more.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

It’s a bit too contrived for me to be an awesome album.

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

It’s just as bloated as I remember the record.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Brilliant songs with a few too many fillers on the album for a perfect score.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

I definitely like this album more now than I did back in the day. Now I am from the age of dj’s playing from an extensive cd collection in regular bars. The bars I frequented back then were of the alternative scene variety and the dj’s on average were huge fans of this kind of music and very into playing the non hits. I knew a lot more of this album than just Lately and Secretly. Like most of the nineties album a throwback to a simpler time in my life. Secretly is my favourite on this album.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Oh… no… this is not for me…

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

I’m not really sure why this is on the list. It’s not really a defining record in any sense.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Iconic heavy metal album, my absolute favourite Iron Maiden song is the smashing closer of the album. This also is still a relevant album. I love it. Also, I always thought that X Factor and Virtual XI were quite a change for Iron Maiden, but you can clearly hear that sound even on this.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

I know the hits, which is already half the album. I know that this album really confirmed Tina’s viability as a pop star. I just like it somewhat?

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

This could have been worse. I’m not a huge R.E.M. fan to put it mildly. Nowadays I only like Night Swimming even a tiny bit, of all the songs I know. This debut is more an American take on New Wave, than subsequent work. It’s just that the production sucks.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Very nice folk album.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Yeah… it’s Zappa and all… it’s just too much for me.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Boooooring… even Hüsker Dü was more raw. If this is HC punk (as someone in the comment section on YT suggested, I never listened to HC punk before.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

It’s ok, I guess.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

It’s a nice album to sit through, I like that end of seventies just not too polished (or not at all) production. A lot more punk than that album by the Lemonheads.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

I love Leonard Cohen. So this is an easy one.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

It’s an ok album as a whole. My mother lists the band as one she liked in her youth. I knew Spinning Wheels beforehand, but I never listened I to this or any of their albums.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

I’m not a huge fan of U2, although I’ve seen them play live twice. The Joshua Tree is considered to be the seminal album, but I found it lacking. Outside the hits there was little substance to the songs…

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

I just couldn’t get into the album…

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

You know… when I listen to an album I always read up on the background of it, and here it’s quite positive: acclaimed seminal album, his transition into fusion jazz, the use of electrical instruments, all that… eh… jazz. But however important the album is, it’s one genre I really can’t get behind, fusion jazz. I’m not a huge jazz fan to begin with, but fusion jazz is just a bit too much. Just Miles Davis is fine, but the rest of the instruments… meh.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

A quite enjoyable album, which clearly states their influences and ideas. They got a whole lot better in putting their ideas to the music in a more concisely defined way.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Hmmmm, nope

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

I know one song of this album (it’s still in rotation at one of the radio channels I listen to) and that is more than enough. I just can’t see that there’s love for music here…

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

It’s a country album.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

A funny album, very nineties britpop, but more uptempo than average

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

I love this album. Many of my favourite Faith no More songs are on The Real Thing and even their cover of War Pigs is a great track.