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Album	You	Global	Diff
Music Madonna	5	2.68	+2.32
Orbital 2 Orbital	5	2.69	+2.31
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	5	2.86	+2.14
Street Signs Ozomatli	5	2.87	+2.13
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Very Pet Shop Boys	5	2.93	+2.07
Vento De Maio Elis Regina	5	3.01	+1.99
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.09	+1.91
Close To You Carpenters	5	3.11	+1.89
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dummy Portishead	1	3.71	-2.71
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1	3.53	-2.53
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	1	3.37	-2.37
Winter In America Gil Scott-Heron	1	3.25	-2.25
Closer Joy Division	1	3.22	-2.22
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	1	3.22	-2.22
The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett	1	2.62	-1.62
Ramones Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	2	3.29	-1.29
Tank Battles Dagmar Krause	1	2.13	-1.13

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pixies	2	5
Def Leppard	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5

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Joanna Newsom

2/5

Ok so the background music was awesome, but I could not do her voice. Whenever she hit a high shift and squeaked it actually hurt.

10 likes

Music

Madonna

5/5

It's hard not to see the influence this album held on the next 7 years of pop music. It feels like a quintessential pop album of the 2000s because it's the first of that kind.

6 likes

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

1/5

Not a fan honestly. I don't see any elements that I see in future music really, at least not ones that are only done here. Plus the entire album felt very....empty

1 likes

1-Star Albums (8)

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Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

It's easy to hear the influences that would shape later music from bands like Stone Temple Pilots and Daughtry. While the music isn't something I would add to my own playlist, i can see the influence it had on later music.

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

It was alright. First half nearly put me to sleep while driving though.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Goes very hard but it's also very 90s. It feels very much like 90s hip hop remixes, which isn't a bad thing, but definitely has that feeling, so if that's not your scene you won't like it.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

It feels like all 90s rock kinda evolved from the music by Pixies

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

I'm not sure why this album was so influential. It feels like every other album by simple minds. This doesn't mean it's bad, i like it a lot actually but it doesn't scream revolutionary to me.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

Fantastic album

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

5/5

Fantastic album. Feels like they were simply a step or two better than the Beatles in terms of this type of rock. Hard to dislike it at all

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Holy crap what a good album. Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, and Free Bird on the same album??? Absolutely insane first album. Absolutely defines rock and roll

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Very obvious influences on later music in this album, T. Rex shows a lot chaos in their music in a way that comes together nicely.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

A solid album with several songs that leave you tapping your foot by the end. Easy to see the many influences it left on pop music going forward

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

An overall weird album but not in a bad way. Definitely more chaotic than anything else. The music was good and there were definitely small moments that remind me of Future bands like The Black keys and Cage the elephant though I'm not 100% sure that the influence was actually that far reaching

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

A fun story to listen to in album form. It reminds me a bit of pink Floyd in terms of the layout of the music in order to tell a comprehensive story.

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

What a fantastic album. It is funky and smooth and it feels like I have to be doing some kind of physical activity while listening to it like dancing. Absolutely amazing to hear for the first time.

Cypress Hill

5/5

This album was lit. It felt good listening to some classic hip hop again

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

It's very easy to see how this album had a huge influence on music in the future, this music very much sounds like what would eventually become music by bands like Pink Floyd.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

I loved this album it feels like a predecessor to all of the 90s and early 2000s techno music that I grew up on and it has a lot of elements that very much lead me to believe that it influenced them heavily.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

The album shows a lot how Latin American music has both changed and also stayed relatively consistent over the decades. There are a lot of elements in this album that you can hear going forward both in future Santana albums and future traditional Latin American music

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

1/5

Not a fan honestly. I don't see any elements that I see in future music really, at least not ones that are only done here. Plus the entire album felt very....empty

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

I understand that this album has a lot of influences on the kind of bands that would become known as grunge but this kind of feels like a bunch of people f****** around in a garage it crawled that way bands later could run.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Fantastic album, changed how acoustic sets were handled for the rest of MTV's tenure in music

Pyromania

Def Leppard

5/5

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Honestly this album just helped guide rock music into a fantastic direction, also it slaps.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Decent album, very swingy, feels like the Beatles for adults

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Oh we love a good funky album here. mellow at certain points too, but full of soul and beautiful vocals.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

5/5

This album shows a lot of soul that seems to get passed on in later slow albums in the same genre. Also first 3 songs are unavailable on Spotify.

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

So this album is just odd. Jack and Meg White have very different talent levels within their instruments and it shows rather heavily. You can also tell who worked on which songs more, but Jack White's lyricism really helps the album come threw in a positive manner.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Very fun album to listen to. I'm always a fan of a heavy drum element and it's nice to hear music from a wider variety of places than just the US and UK.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

Pretty easy to see how later bands, especially 90s and 2000s British punk bands, took influence from the music this group produced

Hysteria

Def Leppard

5/5

Holy shit what an album. This album and Pyromania are generation defining rock albums. They basically decided what the late 80s were going to sound like for rock music.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

5/5

Definitely shows a lot of the roots of Latin music to come, especially the prominence of Spanish rap in music from artists like El Cata and Bad Bunny.

Dummy

Portishead

1/5

I don't know why this album was popular. I was bored with each song I'm different ways and was falling asleep for parts of it.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

This album is definitely a precursor to the theatrical pop so far we would get in later years, especially in the latter half.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Reminds me of Men at work. Thriller made me wanna throw a chair though.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Decent, felt like American Beatles in terms of tone, very light sound

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Shows a very distinct pivot in the more mainstream rap and brings forward another album that does a great job describing the experiences of people who could not really benefit from the things that others could by no fault if their own

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Put UK rock back on the map. Great album

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

Very soft airy album, unlike the general vibe i get from latin american music I've heard previously.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

The most 90s techno album I've ever heard

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

As someone who didn't know this singer previously, this was a fun little diddy.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Fantastic album, lots of super funky moments all along the way.

Closer

Joy Division

1/5

Did anyone else feel this album sucked? Like i don't know what was supposed to be good hear, most of the music felt very disjointed with the vocals. I don't know what the fuss was

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

I love a good story album, and this one was alright

Django Django

4/5

Fun album, not really much else to say, just really like the rhythm

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

First time I've listened to Bob Dylan. I get it, he's definitely a core example of folk music in the US. Very much like listening to a campfire story told with a guitar

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

Nice country album, seems to be a very early start to the "I got me my truck" era of country but it's a good listen

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

Man the music from Korn is fantastic but the lead singer just kinda sounds like the youngest of the wild thornberries sometimes

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

The album is very funky and utilizes several vocalists very well in the music

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

First couple songs had me not liking the album at all, but the next 4 were fantastic

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Good old post punk rock, always just as good

Music

Madonna

5/5

It's hard not to see the influence this album held on the next 7 years of pop music. It feels like a quintessential pop album of the 2000s because it's the first of that kind.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

I mean it's Eminem. For as vulgar and generally off-putting as his lyrics can be, he was a defining feature of 2000s rap

Elvis Presley

4/5

Not necessarily the birth of rock and roll, but certainly a great look into it's very early formative years

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Solid album, very smooth to listen to

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

5/5

Fantastic album start to finish, felt almost like a video game OST at first and I really loved the sound

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

So this album feels very VERY much like all others of it's type, the more hip hop style techno beats of the late 90s. It's not bad, but it doesn't really inspire any awe like other similar albums for me.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

What a great album. Lots of elements that we see get used by other bands in later decades, different types of songs all over, real fun to listen to

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

Really easy to see the influence that this had on Techno going forward, especially in the less dance oriented material. Very smooth mellow album that's easy to listen to

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Decent album couple of really.good hits in there but the rest felt rather plain

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Only got through first half but I get why early Bowie is still considered iconic

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

5/5

Lovely jazz, lots of funky influences from earlier decades

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Simple calm music with a beautiful voice, perfect for a cafe

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

This album felt like it belonged in a like, fantasy RPG tavern with two guys with lutes playing these songs. It's pretty good

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

Ok so the album flowed very nicely from song to song, and i get the feeling it would be better if I was on whatever drugs the band was on when they made it, but I didn't enjoy it. It was slow and soothing, bit in a sleepy way not a calming way.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

How can I say anything other than positive things here? This is the reason rock music sounds like it does.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Cute little country album, very twangy

Metallica

5/5

Well I have my own reasons for disliking the band, it's hard to deny that this album very much shaped the way that metal would be created in the early 2000s. This is especially true when you look at bands like Avenged Sevenfold

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

What a fantastic blues album. It shows a wonderful transition of how blues turns into rock very easily, and the influences that had previously made bands like Pink Floyd so good

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

5/5

Fantastic album covering Lupe's youth. Loved it to bits

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

As an album it seems to have found it's footings few songs in, but once it picks up it's fantastic.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

5/5

First of all, the latter half of the album talking about the civil rights movement is pretty great, but the whole album was just really really good jazzy rock.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Very long album for a short number of songs. The songs were good, or at least every song had a good part, but the length and changes in tone for every song left me feeling confused.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Very somber album. It's great to have singers like Bruce Springsteen because he sings with very frank and direct lyrics usually and it's always obvious what the themes of his songs are.

2112

Rush

5/5

What a power move producing an album like this after a commercial failure the previous album. The title track being 20 minutes long barely felt like any time at all

Tical

Method Man

4/5

Great album but I personally struggled to tell apart songs while not looking at the track list.

Suicide

2/5

This album just did not do it for me. I could see a lot of the influences it had on later music, but this just really sucked in my opinion

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Fun Album to listen to. Lots of upbeat tunes and very easy to sit through the whole things.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

So this is a phenomenal album, but it really is one that you have to listen to all at once, at least until you get to the remixes at the end. The songs flow very coherently with each other and in a vacuum don't hold as much power as they do together.

Orbital 2

Orbital

5/5

Really great early techno album. Had a lot of elements that would absolutely be used in later techno music, especially in the 90s

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

Really good punk album. The Offspring are one of those bands that get people into punk music, and this album has a few of the great songs that hooked us.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Easily one of my favorite rap albums to date. It's really easy to see how it advanced the popular rap game and how it got many people into the genre

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

John Coltrane is a huge influence on the jazz scene, especially the more erratic jazz

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

This felt like living in a Hanna Barbera cartoon and I loved it. It's easy to see how more modern orchestral influences would come from this, as well as how jazz was already imbued in the music world

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

It's good to hear techno that isn't very EDM like. Lots of mellow but powerful songs.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

1/5

I'm just gonna be honest here I don't like Bob Dylan

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

The lyricism on this album is fantastic but I just can't handle the talking over each other at the beginning of some of the songs, it makes my head hurt. Overall a great album to listen to all the way through.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Fun Album, lots of elements that would absolutely get used in later music, especially rock

Van Halen

5/5

Ok so this album has a lot of elements that would go into later music. Atomic punk feels like an early metal song, ice cream man has a lot of funky elements, the bass comes through very well. It definitely feels like a lot more rock than I originally assumed sprang from this album

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

Very calm album, fun concept

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

1/5

So you know how sometimes, band members get booted for having creative differences, and the person getting kicked out says "screw you guys, imma write the music I like and it's gonna be awesome!" And then they produce absolute swill? This feels exactly like that. They say Pink Floyd was never the same once he left, I can only assume that's true because they got better.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Do you like grunge? Good, cus here it is, in all it's glory, guiding future grunge to grungeville

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Pixies are metal lyricism in a old rock body. The generally vulgar themes they use are inspiration for much music down the line

Ramones

2/5

I get how this album is influential, but wow every song sounds almost exactly the same.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Kinda meh album, didn't really see anything that bore influence on later music and wasn't really enthralled with it

Joanna Newsom

2/5

Ok so the background music was awesome, but I could not do her voice. Whenever she hit a high shift and squeaked it actually hurt.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this album. Real easy listening but still fun to listen to, and the singer has a great voice to, like a midway point between Bono, Sting, and Dave Matthews

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

I think this album was alright, I really enjoyed their use of just vocals

1999

Prince

4/5

Decent pop album, definitely had a huge influence on pop music of the time and added a lot of...sexual bluntness to music

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Fine album, sunshine of your love alone is a crazy influence on future rock

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

I feel like this album kinda helped bring forth a lot of those techno alt duos we see more and more of

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Gotta love Black Sabbath, they never disappoint

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Lyrics that flow like wine into the mouth of Dionysus, this group kills it

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

A really sold bluesy album with a lot of emotions behind the lyrics, even if I don't understand them

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

This was his 17th studio album and it still sounds this good? Stevie Wonder was unstoppable

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Kinda meh, didn't really do much for me but it wasn't difficult to listen to by any means

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

What is it with people who continuously uphold the drab melodic ramblings of British men when it comes to music? It's bothersome

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Probably one of if not the best rock albums of the early 2000s, extremely political in a way that rock music needs to be

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

A lot more political than I was expecting REM to be, though maybe that's because I know very little music of theirs. Great songs and a very solid sound

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

The premier album of one of the most iconic voices in metal music, for the band that defined what we think of it today? Yes.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

I feel like the Lemonheads embody what the Beatles would sound like in the 90s, it's a refreshing type of older pop rock

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

It's not a bad album, but all British rap sounds exactly the same to me. I know it's rude but it just doesn't feel any different to anything before or after it

White Denim

3/5

This felt like one really long song

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Not really my style of music but she has a lovely voice and this feels very reminiscent of what little gospel I've heard

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

The Specials

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Great album, very mellow while still being fun. Well Roadhouse Blues is anything but mellow, but the rest of the album felt very smooth

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

5/5

Fantastic album, slow and melodic without being boring

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

This album is very easy to listen to, but feels very long despite its length. Some really good songs on here, but overall it feels like it can easily fall into the background

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

This album puts the smooth in smooth jazz, my goodness this was easy listening

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

I love me a good political album, especially with heavy jazz elements. Good shit all around

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Each song felt both hit and miss for me overall. It was interesting to have songs feel both enjoyable and boring in the same three minute span. Overall I'd say decent though

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

See, this album was highly influential and has some of Nirvana's best songs, and yet I forgot how much of the rest of the album is kinda...missing that love

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Really fun debut album

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Bad Company

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

5/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Unavailable on Spotify

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

1/5

Unavailable on Spotify

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Unavailable on Spotify

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

It's very obvious from the getgo that Sabotage was written to be a radio song, something to get people to buy the album, because the rest of the album sounds almost nothing like it. That said, the album is a spectacle, boasting lyrics that are at the same time political and vulgar. I love it

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Ok so what a game changer album, even for Queen. People were giving Bohemian Rhapsody shit when the Prophet was right there? Insane

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Very easy to see all of the influences later punk bands would take from them.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

The vibe of the album is immaculate. I personally don't like her voice, but I fully recognize that this is a me problem and not the singer's.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

5/5