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Album	You	Global	Diff
Larks' Tongues In Aspic	5	2.99	+2.01
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space	5	3.15	+1.85
Close To The Edge	5	3.19	+1.81
Selected Ambient Works 85-92	5	3.21	+1.79
Nebraska	5	3.31	+1.69
Horses	5	3.31	+1.69
Ágætis Byrjun	5	3.37	+1.63
Music for the Masses	5	3.38	+1.62
Parklife	5	3.38	+1.62
Stand!	5	3.43	+1.57

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Slippery When Wet	1	3.29	-2.29
All Hope Is Gone	1	2.7	-1.7
Sheer Heart Attack	2	3.65	-1.65
461 Ocean Boulevard	2	3.12	-1.12

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Artist	Albums	Avg	Score
Kendrick Lamar	2	5	3.8
Beatles	2	5	3.8
Miles Davis	2	5	3.8

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Artist	Albums	Avg	Score
Slipknot	2	1.5	2.4

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Boston

4/5

A childhood favorite. Timeless as far as AOR goes. Favorite tracks: First five. Rock & Roll Band is underrated. 4/5

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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

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Boston

4/5

A childhood favorite. Timeless as far as AOR goes. Favorite tracks: First five. Rock & Roll Band is underrated. 4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

This one was completely new. Had not heard it before today. Not as bad as I initially thought it was, but not for me. Favorite songs: Alcoholiday, Is This Music? 3-3.5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

I love this record so much :) Favorite Tracks: ALL OF THEM! But And You And I is my absolute favorite 5/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

I do not see what other people see in The Police. This album is generally pretty okay, but certain moments (On Any Other Day and No Time This Time) are ROTTEN Favorite Tracks: Message In A Bottle, Bring On The Night 2.5-3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Not Coldplay's best. Favorite tracks: Clocks, The Scientist 3.5/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Wonderful Bowie album! Great singles, and a few of the deep cuts hit hard, as well. Favorite tracks: Changes, Life on Mars, Andy Warhol, Song for Bob Dylan 4.5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Weird that this is on the list. Not good as far as African music goes, and not good as far as dance music goes. 2.5/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

I heard this Watts guy was pretty good with "Minutemen." This is not Minutemen. This is mildly groovy rock music. Great bass, usually good melodies and drums. Silly goofy cover art 3.5/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Really good. Way better than I remember it being when I tried listening to it the first time. In the context of Damon's career specifically, it's definitely a high point, but more in the local maximum sense. He definitely exceeded this with Gorillaz, particularly Demon Days and Plastic Beach, but this is a fundamentally different experience. It's more grounded, more true to its origins. Blur isn't making any wide-ranging statements on the nature of artistry, they're writing songs about being middle class blokes in Britain. And their tunes are great! Favorite Tracks: Girls & Boys, Parklife, Bank Holiday, To the End 4.5/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love is the second of three albums that The Jimi Hendrix Experience released while Jimi was alive, and it is the worst. That does not mean it is bad! I really enjoyed this album, but the experience (heh) of listening to it is lacking compared to the other two. It lacks the tuneful singles found on Are You Experienced?, such as Hey Joe or Purple Haze, and lacks the punch of Crosstown Traffic or All Along The Watchtower, as well as the lengthy jam that is Voodoo Chile. But it doesn't falter—the songs are all good, with tight performances and great vocals from Jimi. Perhaps with time, I can come to appreciate it as much as the other two Experience records, but for now this occupies the bottom of the hierarchy. Favorite songs: Bold As Love, Spanish Castle Magic 4-4.5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

I don't think I'm much of a Beastie Boy. Favorite Tracks: Sabotage, Get It Together, Flute Loop 4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Merle clears Favorite Track: Down Yonder 3.5/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Very impressive debut from R.E.M. I might like it more than Document. Favorite Tracks: Radio Free Europe, Pilgrimage 4/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

Post-punk if instead of punk it was jazz fusion Favorite Tracks: Set The Controls..., The Vibes..., Vermillion Kisses 4/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

gonna be honest. i did not listen to the second half of this album it could be the best thing ever made and i would never know Favorite Track: Psychosocial, I guess 2-2.5/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

not bad Favorite Tracks: Paranoid Android, Electioneering 5/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Kendrick does it again! He surely cannot top this one Favorite Tracks: The Art of Peer Pressure; m.A.A.d city; Swimming Pools (Drank); Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst 4.5-5/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Not for me. Favorite Tracks: n/a 3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Really grew on me Favorite Tracks: Pink Moon, Road 4.5-5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Yes's kind of goofy predecessor to their two best albums. Panning in the mix is a little off-putting. Favorite Tracks: Starship Trooper 4-4.5/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Good feminist punk! Unsure how you reckon the song "I'm With Her" with this, though. That song is dogshit. Sidenote, but a song like Hot Topic (or something like La Vie Boheme in RENT) seems like a kind of shallow way to approach the whole, you know Favorite Tracks: Deceptacon, Les and Ray 3.5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Pretty good Favorite Track: Fell In Love With a Girl 3.5/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Classic! Favorite Tracks: Stairway To Heaven, When The Levee Breaks 4.5/5

One World

John Martyn

4/5

zweet zertain zurprise! Favorite Tracks: Certain Surprise, Dancing, Small Hours 4/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

to be honest i'm just not sure that i can bring myself to care enough about this record because barely anything about it sticks with me. i think of myself as a huge alt-rock guy. but something about the foo just doesn't really do it for me. no offense, dave Favorite Tracks: Alone + Easy Target 3/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Groovy Favorite Tracks: Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman 4.5/5

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Do I hate it?? no.... but I definitely don't love it Favorite Track: Lord Only Knows 3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

maybe it's just not for me. Favorite Tracks: Sgt. Peppers..., Reprise, When I'm Sixty-Four Best Song The Beatles Ever Made: A Day In The Life 4.5-5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Life-changing jazz funk—Watermelon Man is the reason I played/listen to jazz, and without jazz in high school I seriously doubt I would care about music anywhere near as much as I do now Favorite Tracks: Watermelon Man, Chameleon, Sly 4.5-5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

incredible soul record. walk on by wins the title for possibly most sampleable track ever Favorite Tracks: Walk On By, Hyperbolicsyllabicesquedalymistic 4-4.5/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Tipper Gore reportedly created the PMRC because of this album and frankly I think it's a shame that she hates fun Favorite Tracks: When Doves Cry, Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy, I Would Die 4 U, Take Me With U 5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

better than expected (which seems to be a pattern with 70s funk for me) Favorite Tracks: All About Love, Africano 4-4.5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

i don't do drugs but this album makes me understand why people do Favorite Tracks: Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space, Come Together, I Think I'm in Love 4.5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

quite good! a little british for my taste Favorite Tracks: The Village Green Preservation Society, Picture Book, Village Green 4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Pretty hip jazz. 3.5/5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

i love when british people try to speak and they are just utterly incoherent. this is also a great punk album but i was more preoccupied with that first bit Favorite Tracks: Field Day for the Sundays, Surgeon's Girl, Mannequin 4-4.5/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

height of early naughts indie then, just a pretty good album now Favorite Tracks: Neighborhood 1-4 4-4.5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

i miss the village green 3.5/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

nostalgic Favorite Tracks: I Feel the Earth Move, It's Too Late, Beautiful, A Natural Woman 4.5/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

well. the album tracks aren't singles for good reason. i do not want to hear about kissing the teacher Favorite Tracks: Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You 3.5-4/5

The Cars

3/5

for the most part dull and uninteresting Favorite Tracks: Just What I Needed, Bye Bye Love 2.5-3/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

I don't need to say that this album is great. That it's influential. That it's one of Miles Davis's finest moments, an essential part of the greatest career in jazz music, and maybe all of music in general. That's taken as a given for anybody who knows anything about jazz. All I really have to add is that, while In A Silent Way's more mellow and structured tone than Bitches Brew (as well as its comparative brevity) have led many to claim its superiority, I think that Bitches Brew is a better record in almost every way, and that the moments I appreciated most on Silent Way were the moments where I could see glimpses of where Miles, John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, etc. were all going in the future. And for most, that means the moments most reminiscent of Bitches Brew. Both records are wonderful, and it's a joy to bear aural witness to some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time doing their thing in such new and interesting ways. I will probably have to say most of this again if we get to Bitches Brew, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Favorite Tracks: both of them 5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Best record the Beatles ever made. Best record Rock Music has ever seen. Best D-Side of any album ever. This album just might be my favorite of all time. Can't really heap enough praise onto it. And that's really all I have to say Favorite Tracks: The End, Her Majesty 5/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Bruce Springsteen at his best, telling stories about being working class in America with a more folky instrumentation and an awfully somber mood Favorite Tracks: Atlantic City, Used Cars, Open All Night, My Father's House 4.5-5/5

The Doors

5/5

father? yes son? i want to kill you! AAAAAAAAAH Favorite Tracks: 1-6 4.5-5/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

as much as i hate to admit it i am incredibly fond of british new wave/new romantic and this album is quintessential in that context Favorite Tracks: Show Me, Poison Arrow, The Look of Love 4.5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Best album ever?????? Favorite Tracks: all of them but especially Staralfur 5/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

I thought it was INTERESTING but Forever Changes is substantially better and also that album isn't like hard panned left Favorite Tracks: Stephanie Knows Who, Que Vida 3.5-4/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

I heard The World Is Yours on the NBA 2K 13 soundtrack and had it stuck in my head for the next decade. Also the bars are fire Favorite Tracks: Life's A Bitch, NY State Of Mind, It Ain't Hard To Tell 5/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

a few standout tracks, but mostly standard bruce thoroughfare (which is still very good!!!) Favorite Tracks: Badlands, Streets of Fire, Darkness On the Edge of Town 4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

Very good. not sure the masses were or are ready for this though Favorite Tracks: Never Let Me Down Again, Strangelove, Little 15, Pimpf 4.5-5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

A great punk record with catchier tunes than most pop songwriters could come up with Favorite Tracks: London Calling, Spanish Bombs, Guns of Brixton 5/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

A surprisingly catchy outing from everyone's favorite gay synthpop duo Favorite Tracks: I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing, Liberation, To Speak Is a Sin, Young Offender 4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

2/5

This album shows Eric Clapton, racism extraordinaire, makes bunch of pretty good blues rock and then throws in a bastardization of I Shot The Sherriff. If this is the best he could do on his own, perhaps Baker and Bruce were the masterminds of Cream. This album is fine but fuck Clapton Favorite Tracks: i don't care enough to say 2-2.5/5

The Clash

4/5

good not great Favorite Tracks: Janie Jones, London's Burning, Career Opportunities 4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

she's hwite??? Favorite Tracks: Tears Dry On Their Own, Addicted, Rehab 4.5/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

It's bonkers. I think it's really good. Can certainly get easily lost on you, though. Favorite Tracks: 3 minutes into pt 1, The Talking Drum 4.5/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

my opinion of elvis costello has gotten worse since i found out he was british Favorite Track: Chelsea 3.5-4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

shot through the heart and youre to blame you give new jersey a bad name 1.5/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

GRAAAAH I LOVE RICHARD D JAMES Favorite Tracks: Xtal, Pulsewidth, We Are the Music Makers, Ptolemy 5/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Pretty good! not what i would consider essential. Favorite Tracks: Take Me Out, Auf Achse 3.5-4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Love this record tbh. big funk guy right here 4.5/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

modal jazzzzzzzzz faves: Kind Of Blue, So What, Freddie Freeloader 4.5-5/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

cannot get it out of my head that one of the b-sides for i bet that you look good on the dancefloor is called Chun Li Flying Bird Kick and is an instrumental. thats not what the move is called. also fun fact for quite a while a certain romance would play whenever i was finished listening to is this it for way too long so it was one of my top songs on last.fm for a month or so even though i never went out of my way to listen to it a single time Favorite Tracks: I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..., A Certain Romance 4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

best live album ever? maybe! great performances from cash, carter, perkins, and the tennessee three, some really funny interludes, and just a solid overall sound! it really sounds like he says "have to change harmonicas faster than kiss a duck" on orange blossom special and i really have never figured out what he was trying to say and it kills me Favorite Tracks: Folsom Prison Blues, Cocaine Blues, Greystone Chapel 4.5-5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

pretty good Favorite Tracks: Let Me Ride, Nuthin But A "G" Thang, Lyrical Gangbang, Bitches Ain't Shit 4-4.5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Fiddler interpolation on Daydreaming is undefeated Favorite Track: Daydreaming 4.5/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

I don’t like it very much. killer queen is good 2

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Zack de la Rocha !!!!! Favorite Tracks: Killing In The Name, Take The Power Back 5/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

There are kids at jazz programs throughout the nation who train for entire school years to play literally exactly like Ellington recordings. I don’t get it at all but you can figure out why they do that. This band sounds good. Faves: A Train and the Festival Suite 4/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

i miss the village green 3.5/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

This record is garbage lol

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Great album good movie Favorite Tracks: Comfortably Numb, In The Flesh 4.5-5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Pretty good, honestly. Can't say I'm a huge fan of anything other than La Grange, but it's certainly listenable. Probably would've been fun live Favorite Track: La Grange 3/5

Boston

4/5

A childhood favorite. Timeless as far as AOR goes. Favorite tracks: First five. Rock & Roll Band is underrated. 4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Really high quality and a good precursor to Neil Young's best work. Overshadowed by his next three Favorite Tracks: Cinnamon Girl, Everybody Knows 4.5/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

mgmt's best Favorite Tracks: Time To Pretend, Kids, Electric Feel 4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

GOAT!!!! FAVORITE TRACKS: ALL OF IT 5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

all time great album Favorite Songs: Lovesong, Pictures of You 5/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

fine. Personal Jesus is the best song on here by a lot 4.5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

hooooooooooly shit is this guy good or what Favorite Tracks: Wesley's Theory, Alright, King Kunta, The Blacker the Berry, Complexion, Hood Politics, i 5/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

goat! Favorite: ALL OF IT! 5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

love it! Favorite Tracks: Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, Hey Joe 5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Jesus died for somebody’s sons, but not mine Favorites: Gloria 4.5-5/5