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Album	You	Global	Diff
Street Signs Ozomatli	5	2.87	+2.13
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	5	2.9	+2.1
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco	5	3.13	+1.87
Let It Be The Replacements	5	3.25	+1.75
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Liquid Swords GZA	5	3.28	+1.72
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	1	2.95	-1.95
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	1	2.85	-1.85
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66
Chelsea Girl Nico	1	2.63	-1.63
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	1	2.53	-1.53
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.47	-1.47
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.22	-1.22
The Rise & Fall Madness	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (24)

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Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Occasionally great, occasional meh. Straight down the middle for me.

4 likes

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Man, hell no. Pretentious nonsense.

3 likes

Let It Be

The Replacements

5/5

Apparently I'm a fan of the Replacements now. Gonna dive into them deeper.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Heard it before without ever really listening. Stevie in his absolute prime.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Have owned this album since it came out and it still holds up.

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Wish I would have discover this earlier, would have loved it.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Literally the first album I ever owned.

Faith

George Michael

4/5

This album is hoooooorny. But it's got some fantastic songs too.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

I have no idea what the lead singer is saying at least half the time, but surprisingly fun album. Love the horns and strings all over this album.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Apparently one of the most overrated albums ever. This thing was super repetitive.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Wow, this was great. Had only heard the 2 big radio songs before but this was stacked start to finish, outside of the weird longing for an architect.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

It was good, but their next album is the classic.

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Good atmospheric jams

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

Oh crap, this is not what I thought Morrissey sounded like!

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Fantastic, peak Stones.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Found some unexpected and great chord progressions here

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Good, but runs out of steam in the second half.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

So, so 80s

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

One of the greatest albums ever, nothing more to say

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

I mean, they're fine but I'm surprised they made this list.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Same thing I initially thought, would have been much better condensed into 1 album.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

Really good Neil Young album that I hadn't heard yet.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

I wish we could give half stars on this.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Very meh outside of Tainted Love. Complete opposite of Dexy and his Midnight Runners.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

5/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Absolutely loved it.

Bert Jansch

3/5

Not for me, Clyde. But I like the guitar arrangements.

Let It Be

The Replacements

5/5

Apparently I'm a fan of the Replacements now. Gonna dive into them deeper.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

One of my stranded on a desert island albums. Easy 5.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

It was nice to hear 90s rock that I hadn't heard, but this was pretty average.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

First off, this album is not on Amazon Music, so I checked out their greatest hits. Our House is a great song. And every other song sounds just like it.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Had it on in the background and wasn't really locked it but there was something there that made me want to give it another run. Listened again with headphones on and yeah, now I get it.

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Well, this was just fantastic.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

It's really good Bruce, but not elite Bruce.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

It's a great metal album, probably Metallica's best. I would really like to hear a remastered version with the bottom end brought up though, super high on the treble.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

This is really really great. The reggae song is total trash, but otherwise this one crushes.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Amazing sound quality for a concert over 50 years old. Not my favorite Who songs though

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

I wish country music still sounded like this.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

One of my favorite albums that I've owned for like 20 years. What do you think?

Ramones

3/5

Same song for 30 minutes, but I loved some of them, so 3?

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Much better than Cream, and I'm getting curious how much Clapton is on this list. Still a solid British blues album from when they were all stealing licks and songs.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Really like the instrumentation here, but the singer is terrible.

Liquid Swords

GZA

5/5

🔥 Immediately added to the rotation.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Great music for doing drugs.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

I can't even get high enough to make this interesting.

Adele

4/5

Incredible voice, but needs more variety

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

I love this album front to back.

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

Simple Minds

1/5

Nope, nothing there that I liked

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Feels like the bridge album between early and late Beatles.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fantastic album, trails off a bit at the end. Little bit tighter track list and it's a 5.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Much better than anticipated. Cool sounds here worth a revisit.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

This was the most punk rock album I've ever heard.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Unexpectedly, it was exactly what I needed. Great swing music from the 50s. Just fun as hell.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Good, but not blown away. Hard to compare some of the older albums because they formed so much of what came later.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Funky as shit and wildly more progressive than I thought the Temptations were.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Heard nothing that The Cure weren't doing 10 times better at the time. The Seven Mary Three of 80s gothiness

Parklife

Blur

4/5

You can see the roots of the Gorillaz in thos album for sure

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Gets a bit repetitive, but some huge songs on here

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Like a mix of early Pink Floyd with a touch of metal and general weirdness. I liked it!

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Undeniable bangers on here, but too many damn skits.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

Just awful singing, flat untuned garbage.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

5/5

One of the greatest R&B albums ever made. No other notes.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

5/5

Please feed me more like this. About to start listening to these guys on the reg.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

It's crazy how many one liners from this album still show up in rap songs. Classic and wild influential

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

I like the highs a lot, but it loses focus at times and it's easy to tune out

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Occasionally great, occasional meh. Straight down the middle for me.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Ladies and gentlemen, the formation of a Chad right here. Heard this all the time growing up. And yet,.......not a complete album.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Didn't really work for me, feel like you have to be in the right mood to sink into this one.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Don't feel like I know enough jazz to have a proper opinion, but was great background music.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Much better than I've ever given this band the credit for.

Play

Moby

4/5

This absolutely takes me back to a particular place and time. It's a bit repetitive, but it's also fantastic to listen to with a buzz.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Fun fuzzy alt rock. Dinosaur Jr is awesome.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Man, hell no. Pretentious nonsense.