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Album	You	Global	Diff
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.38	+1.62
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.56	+1.44
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	4	2.65	+1.35
Let's Stay Together Al Green	5	3.76	+1.24
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	4	2.86	+1.14
Out of Step Minor Threat	4	2.92	+1.08
Like Water For Chocolate Common	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
90 808 State	1	2.69	-1.69
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.32	-1.32
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.28	-1.28
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	2	3.23	-1.23
Thriller Michael Jackson	3	4.22	-1.22
This Is Hardcore Pulp	2	3.14	-1.14
Drunk Thundercat	2	3.12	-1.12
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	2	3.04	-1.04

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Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Fantastic album. 9/10. Fight the power is a classic. The album has a lot of variety too. Work of art.

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Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

7.5/10. Beautiful voice but I prefer instrumental-forward music. California is the best song on the album.

Gorillaz

3/5

6/10. It was interesting, but not really my taste for the most part. There was a lot of variety on the album. Best songs were Clint Eastwood and Rock the House

Metallica

4/5

8/10. It was better than I expected. There was a lot of variety on the album which I wasn’t expecting. Enter Sandman is the best song on the album of course.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Not really my taste in music. I can see the appeal but I didn’t really like it. 4/10

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Fantastic album. 9/10. Fight the power is a classic. The album has a lot of variety too. Work of art.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

It was okay. It’s very artsy. Gotta love solsbury hill though. 6/10

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

It was good, a bit weird. I have no clue what he was singing about in half the songs, but it felt pretty passionate. 6/10.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

It was great! I really liked it. A lot of cool sounds coming from the album. 8/10

808 State

1/5

This was not up my alley. It was like weird house music. 2/10 I did not enjoy it

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

It was good! R.E.M. is a great band with great vibes. Still didn’t have my favorite songs from them but that didn’t stop me from enjoying it. 7.5/10

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Gave me proto arcade fire vibes. I like it, but there wasn’t much particularly great about it. Good focus music. 6/10

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

7/10. Walk of life and money for nothing are fantastic but the rest of the album was a little dull.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

It was pretty good. Nothing too extraordinary about it but I enjoyed it. 7/10

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

It was pretty good. Michael Jackson isn’t my favorite artist but it was still good listening. 7/10

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Pretty good. It’s got their 3 best songs on it. The rest is decent too. 8.5/10.

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

Not super enticing to me. I didn’t find it legitimately bad, just there was nothing particularly good about it. Instrumentals were alright but vocals kinda throws it off. 4.5/10

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Pretty good! Very chill. 6.5/10

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

It was pretty interesting. There was nothing that really wowed me but it was pleasant. I’d give it 7.5/10.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

That was pretty fun. It’s wild to hear all the screaming girls and the way he amps up the crowd. The music itself wasn’t super special but it seemed like a wild experience. 7/10

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

It was fine. The music is good but it pretty much all sounds the same. 6.5/10

Led Zeppelin

5/5

So so good. It’s really hard to beat Led Zeppelin and they have such great songs that also contain a ton of variety. 9/10 only because this isn’t even their best album

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Very good. I’m really impressed by the variety of music they sampled and produced. 9/10

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

That was wild. It really felt like flipping through radio stations. It was a great use of the radio hosts between songs too. The variation between genres was cool too. 8.5/10

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

2/5

Not my style. It was pretty boring through the entire thing. 3.5/10

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

That was very strange. The way he sings reminds me of the guy who does the History of the World YouTube videos. A significant portion of the songs seemed more like jokes than anything else. It was super interesting how well it melded with Kendrick and Wiz, but other than that it was a miss for me. 5/10.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

It was pretty good. There was nothing inspiring about it but I enjoyed it. My beloved monster is a fantastic song though. 7/10

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Loved the piano. She’s got a great voice and she’s funny too. 9/10

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

It was like I was playing a Tony Hawk game. It really pumps you up. Generally not my taste in music because it can get repetitive, but because it was only 30 minutes it didn’t get very stale. 8.5/10

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

It was okay. Not really anything great about it. Gave off big Herman’s hermits vibes. 5/10

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Decent. Nothing incredible about it, I do like the synthesizer tho. Good ambiance music 6/10

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Fantastic album. I love let’s stay together and he has a beautiful voice. 9./10

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

4/10, nothing particularly notable about it. Don’t listen to “Don’t” it’s terrible.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

It was good. I liked it. Especially little bird. 6.5/10

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

8.5/10. I loved it. It reminded me of fallout. Love the brass accompanying it.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Not bad but nothing to write home about. 5/10

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

Reminds me a bit of a new era take on early Pink Floyd. Not my favorite but I could appreciate it I guess. 5/10

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

It was really good! I love Janis Joplin’s voice. me and Bobby McGee is the star of the album. Wish it was a little bit longer. 8.5/10

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

I did not like it. Didn’t finish it, 2.5/10

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Meh, not really my style. It reminded me of when Ross gets his keyboard back in Friends. 3/10.

Bad Company

4/5

I love Bad Company. Bad Company the song was my pump up song before exams in college. The album is really good. 8.5/10.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

It was good. Bruce Springsteen is great, but I don’t think it’s my favorite of his work. 6.5/10

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

Not really my style but there were flashes that were good. 5/10

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Really interesting to listen to. A lot of notes similar to like David Bowie and others in that new wave kind of alt music. Also a hint of like the Doors or something. 7/10

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Really good. It’s Tricky and the Walk This Way remix are both incredible songs. I like all the rock they incorporated into their beats. 8/10

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The “easy listening” of Stevie Wonder. It’s pleasant to listen to, but it’s nothing exceptional. 7/10.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

I was shocked at how diverse the album was. I love the Pogues, great album and it was cool to see the Dubliners on there too. 8.5/10

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

It was some nice jazz. I was expecting a little more vocals just because it’s Frank Zappa. 7.5/10

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

It was pretty good. Groovy, but it wasn’t exceptional. Although Eight Miles High is an incredible song. 7/10.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Wow that was intense. There were some incredible songs and the creativity and production was excellent, but man that was violent. 8/10.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Very good album with the best songs being GREAT songs. I’d give it a 9/10.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

It really grew on me. The first half I was pretty ambivalent toward it, but starting with the 6th sense it became really incredible. My favorites were the 6th sense, a song for assata and pops rap III. 8/10

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

It’s a fine album. I can appreciate it but there wasn’t really anything that stood out to me. 6.5/10

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

This was a very interesting album. The songs were the definition of hit and miss for me. I also like the juxtaposition between Nico’s songs and the garage rock sound of the velvet underground’s songs. All in all I’d give it a 7.5/10

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

That was not really my taste. The guitar was good when they showed it off but it was few and far between. Felt pretty repetitive to me as well. 5/10 and that’s mostly because of the guitar.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

I like the album a lot! That country blues combo is great and La Grange is a great song too. 8/10

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

It was good. Not fantastic but it really sets a good mood. 7/10

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

It was pretty good. Nothing special but I enjoyed the guitar. 6.5/10

Tracy Chapman

4/5

That was great. Talkin’ Bout a Revolution and Fast Car are classics. I was surprised by a lot of the sounds of some of the other songs. Very powerful lyrics too. 8.5/10

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

There are some good songs on here, even for a pop-swiftie hater. I’d give this a solid 7.5/10