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Album	You	Global	Diff
Smile Brian Wilson	5	3.06	+1.94
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	5	3.11	+1.89
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	5	3.2	+1.8
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	5	3.27	+1.73
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Play Moby	5	3.47	+1.53
Butterfly Mariah Carey	4	2.48	+1.52
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.66	+1.34

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The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5

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Popular Reviews

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Such a prolific album. It has such range. Heavy stuff, soft melodic stuff. Timeless songs like Tonight, Tonight. Run time is at 2 hours so it’s a long journey.

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Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Favorite/liked songs: Sympathy for the Devil No Expectations Street Fighting Man Factory Girl Salt of the Earth 5/10 Least Favorite Song: Dear Doctor Didn’t dig the bluesy songs as much

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Favorite/liked songs: Twice as Hard Jealous Again Sister Luck Seeing Things Hard to Handle She Talks to Angels 6/10 The rest are still bangers. Great album front to back. Pure rock and roll! I’ve listened to She Talks to Angels a handful of times today. It’s a beautiful song.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Always a fan of some good soul music. With this album only having 4 songs and 3 of them extended, I can’t really peg a particular favorite/liked song. Overall liked the groove. Some of the songs went on too long though.

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

I respect this album. It’s just too “noisy” for me. However, I commend the shift in rock music that happened as a result of this album and appreciate that which came after it. Enjoy the opener Is This It and Last Nite but nothing else really stands out to me.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Nice mix of music with vocals and instrumentals. Enjoyed the variety of genres here. This is a good background listening album.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

This was in frequent rotation in my early years. Eminem changed the hip hop game for me.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

I’m in the “Radiohead is overrated” camp. This is something I can listen to in the background but didn’t grow any attachment to it.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

Hang Down Your Head Time Gun Street Girl Downtown Train 4/19 Only liking 4 of the 19 tracks may be unfair. I cannot say I’ve actually actively listened to Tom Waits before today. I knew he existed but couldn’t name anything by him. Listening to this makes me want to explore his music more. It’s weird and quirky. I’ll give this 3 stars but it’s more like 3.5.

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Good to listen to. It would be a background album.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

David Bowie does soul. This has to be a full album experience. Definitely has some good grooves on this.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

Interesting album. It’s loud and abrasive for 1966. Appreciate its significance in musical history. It’s not for my ears though. Probably would not revisit.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

More electronic music on this journey. I could easily pair this with Massive Attack’s album. There’s some slight differences within the genre. Regardless, another decent background album.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

A nice byproduct of the Strokes and the garage rock movement of the early 2000s. This one pleases my ears a lot more than Is This It does.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Great album. A little something of everything. I didn’t need Apple Jam T the end but it was still good. This deserves repeat listening.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Very enjoyable jazz album. I was always a big fan of the Peanuts soundtrack so this reminds me of it. Definitely will explore more of this group.

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Fine 60s psych album.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

4/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

White Denim

4/5

Really liked the sound of this group. Definitely fits in the garage band revival era of early 2000s however has more hints of psychedelic sounds of the 60s. Will explore more.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

Solid 80s country album. Listened to it passively in one sitting.

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

Great album. Such an interesting story to how it was made.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Not my cup of tea. Skank and Praise You was everywhere in the late 90s and I’m still not ready to revisit.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Haunting post punk 80s album

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

A classic that I’ve given many spins already. Not a bad track on here.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Great dad rock. Classic singles here. Great licks on the guitar. Really dug Brothers in Arms.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Started out strong but some of the songs were a little too loud

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

5/5

Classic 70s rock album!

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Great live rock album. I’ve slept on Thin Lizzy!

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

Solid punk

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

War

4/5

Love the rawness of this. U2 would be very polished later in their career. This is a young U2 with a lot to say.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Decent 70s rock album. Has a little psychedelica mixed in.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Very good folk album with some traditional British sounds.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Great heartland rock. Bruce can sing me stories any time.

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Perfectly fine singer-songwriter album

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

A product of the early 2000s garage rock movement. I appreciate for what it is. There’s some songs that are rough on the ears for me. This was going to be a 2 star after the first couple of tracks but then there would be something to pull me back in.

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Like the sound. Some of it is a little repetitive

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Fantastic album. Definitely feel some Beatles vibes here. Definitely a precursor to the 70s soft era.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Another that I’ll appreciate for what it is. Blue isn’t my go to.

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My Bloody Valentine

3/5

It’s fine. It’s definitely a vibe.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

What a quirky album. Definitely going to need some relistens.

Music

Madonna

3/5

A few tracks I liked. Some of the dance stuff wasn’t my vibe. I will always love Don’t Tell Me.

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Enjoyed it. My family called it elevator music.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

4/5

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Took me back to the TRL days.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Tribe is my go to 90s hip hop

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Not my vibe.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Decent 80s rock. Not as cheesy as some of the other hair metal of the era.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Classic

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

5/5

So good. The Beach Boys start growing up!

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

4/5

Sometimes you just need a good honky tonk album. I enjoyed this discovery. I don’t believe I’ve ever consciously listened to Joe.

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

This was pretty awesome. Loved the intro.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Never really listened to salsa intently before. Pretty good.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

This is a wild one. I really wanted to like it. I appreciate it for what it is but it’s pretty noisy.

Django Django

4/5

I enjoyed this. Good vocals. Good alt sound.

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Definitely easy on the ears. Appropriate that this popped up on Dad’s birthday.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

5/5

Loving this! The Waterboys are a new discovery for me. Definitely a discography I want to continue to explore.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Folky psych. I dig it man.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Other than the crossover hits, haven’t listened to much Marley. Enjoy the vibe. Best thing about this project is doing a bit of research on the artist. Love that he gave writing credits to family and friends in order to take care of them.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Such a prolific album. It has such range. Heavy stuff, soft melodic stuff. Timeless songs like Tonight, Tonight. Run time is at 2 hours so it’s a long journey.

The United States Of America

2/5

This was all over the place. But that’s what you get with psych folk.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Love this. I remember when I first listened to it. I wondered why I hadn’t listened to the Smiths sooner.

Adele

4/5

Great pop vocal album.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Some beautiful sounds here. Love the theming. There’s a couple of weird tracks but overall liked it.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Good jazz fusion album. It’s quick. Sometimes feels like it’s Weather Channel. However, I’m always looking for ways to branch out into the jazz style.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Significant early rock. Very easy to listen to.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Adding in the acoustics. Good album. Not my favorite Zep but has one of the all time rockers, Immigrant Song.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Great groovy rock. Enjoyed the live tracks on the expanded too.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Didn’t hate this. It was a good mellow album to put on throughout the day.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Electronic isn’t my go to genre. Again, I can appreciate it for what it is, but probably won’t revisit.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Good album. Especially as the genesis of what was to come. The vinyl was surprisingly a little flat. The singles are very catchy. This isn’t my go to Foo though.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

I think I enjoyed this more than Hail to the Thief. Radiohead is a blind spot. Trying to decide if I like them.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Enjoyed it. Interesting to go from Kid A to this. This is the type of electronic rock blend I can get into.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Ray Charles is another blind spot. Enjoyed the idea of side 1 being upbeat jazzy numbers and side 2 being the softer ballad side.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

It’s one and done for me. I do like British rap though.

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Good listen. I liked the mix of styles throughout.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

As much as I enjoyed Melon Collie, I think I enjoyed this more.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Great vocals from a legend.

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Good music. Vocals grated on me a bit.

Atomizer

Big Black

2/5

Appreciate the art. Too noisy for me.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

‘Ol Blue Eyes was a treat to listen to. Just enjoy the vibe.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

This was a surprise like. Really enjoyed the Americana country rock vibes.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Probably should give it another listen. I’ve tried to get into the Stones but they’re really just a greatest hits band for me.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Flawless album. 10 stars. My appreciation for it has grown with separation. The singles get overplayed on 90s rock stations and playlists. However, they’re awesome. Black may be the greatest Pearl Jam song.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Title track is such a great song. Definitely some other standouts. Enjoyed Traveling Man, Here I Am, and Early Morning Breeze. I will admit I cannot listen to Dolly for too long before the voice gets on my nerves a bit 😬

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Definitely enjoyed this dream pop album. Would love to keep digging into their catalogue.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Great Christmas album. Classic songs front to back.

Play

Moby

5/5

One of my favorites. Electronic isn’t my go to but I bought this shortly after it came out. Listened to it many times. With 18 tracks, there are a couple that are just fine. However, there are many that are beautiful.