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Album	You	Global	Diff
Music Madonna	5	2.69	+2.31
Dust Screaming Trees	5	3.16	+1.84
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.22	+1.78
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.31	+1.69
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	5	3.42	+1.58
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	5	3.45	+1.55
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	5	3.48	+1.52
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.67	+1.33
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.78	+1.22
Roots Sepultura	4	2.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	1	3.28	-2.28
461 Ocean Boulevard Eric Clapton	1	3.11	-2.11
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.95	-1.95
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	2	3.9	-1.9
Street Signs Ozomatli	1	2.87	-1.87
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Parklife Blur	2	3.39	-1.39
Porcupine Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.09	-1.09
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.08	-1.08
Highly Evolved The Vines	2	3.03	-1.03

5-Star Albums (11)

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Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple · 2 likes

4/5

📣LET FIONA APPLE BE WEIRD📣 This album was the scream a lot of people needed in spring 2020, but it also reminded a lot of people that she wasn’t just the teenager of “Criminal”. I’ve listened to a lot of noodly dad bands in this project and it’s nice to hear my preferred brand of weird.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem · 1 likes

3/5

Upon relistening to this for the first time since my 20s, I: A) remembered all the lyrics B) was horrified all over again by the lyrics C) resolved to not play this around my sons D) remembered that now Em is sober and a grandfather. Incredible production, absolutely degenerate lyrics, you can hear Em's genius once you get past the incessant threats to his ex's life. A 5 for production, a 1 for lyrics, balancing out to a 3.

1-Star Albums (3)

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Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

First four songs SLAP

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Give this to the cabaret-obsessed high schooler in your life

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

10/10 album to smoke dirt weed with your crush to in your dad’s basement. I’ll listen again.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

This album is great, wish I'd listened more when it came out.

Music

Madonna

5/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

This sounds like exactly the record store I worked in and the moldy apartment I lived in when this came out

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

God I love this album, every song is essential to it and even the interludes add to the narrative.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

This is what your mom plays while she makes a Sunday bolognese, and I plan to do just that on Monday.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Me, listening to this album: Hell yeah, hell yeah, love this one too, oh shit my kids are in the car. This came out when I was 12, they’re 11 and 14, I only trust one to listen to this responsibly. Update: I made it through three songs and then felt terrible that my sons were hearing lyrics about women like these. I still like this album but I’m not playing it for the kids.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

2/5

Every time I see the Beta Band anywhere I think about the scene in High Fidelity where Jack Black's character comes in and complains about Dick's Sad Bastard Music (even though that was Belle and Sebastian). I've seen Beta Band live opening for Radiohead, and have heard them hundreds of times on KEXP, but still only can think of Dry the Rain. Update: I made it three songs in and remembered nothing about each song as soon as it ended.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

YEAH HERE WE GO. I have this album on CD and it’s beat to hell, I’ve listened to it so much. A friend studied abroad in Spain in 2003-4 and came back to spread the good word of Manu Chao. This album sounds like treating myself to a little fancy cheese and a bottle of cava on a summer afternoon, it was the first non-English-language album I ever bought. If it wasn’t for Manu Chao I wouldn’t own Rosalia and Bad Bunny albums. The music is eclectic and chill, the review that called it a “stoner classic” is correct. I love the collage of sounds that make it up, and that even with all the samples and snippets, it still feels organic.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I’ve smoked a lot of weed, read a lot of fantasy novels, and spent years working in record stores and I still don’t get zeppelin.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

I’d never heard this album all the way through but when I listen to it for the first time, it sounded like a whole lot of 90s all at once. Sonic Youth begat Pavement, Pavement begat Modest Mouse.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

I bought this album when it came out but forgot about it for years (except for Tightrope). This is a flawless listen, Janelle is truly the new Bowie: a genderfluid hot talented weirdo. Who else but Janelle could put both of Montreal and Big Boi on an album? Proof you can make experimental yet danceable music.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

If I’m gonna listen to 1950s jazz Dave Brubeck is right there and so is Miles Davis.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Thirty years after The Chronic, Kendrick’s chronicle of life in Compton is another solid album front to back, and one I would listen to in front of my kids without fear. Poetic Justice is a great song with a weak-ass Drake spot, but it’s nice that Kendrick got his revenge later.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Ren faire-ass album.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

I’ve owned this album for years but hadn’t listened to anything but The Art Teacher for a long time. Love the concept, and the only album on the list that uses the line “baptized in cum.”

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

What would my life would have been like if my parents were listening to this in 1973 instead of Zeppelin? I hear this band in so many albums I love, and this is lesson in making a no-skips banger in under 40 minutes.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

“Every finger in the room is pointing at me I wanna spit in their face then I get afraid of what that would bring” I was 13 when I heard this album and it hit like a bomb. Listening 30+ years later and it still hits.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

1/5

I made it through 1.5 songs and gave up.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

It’s a real jarring transition from listening to this in the car at a high volume to my job as a children’s librarian. I own this album, but I listen maybe once a year just to get all riled up. Thrash metal isn’t my genre (I prefer sad women with guitars or lesbian pop), but I can acknowledge the talent and work that goes into this, even if I never need to listen to another Slayer album. In conclusion, FUCKIN SLAYERRRRRRRRR!!!

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Okay, I’m not a Zep fan but this album objectively whips ass.

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

The man wrote his own eulogy

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

I bet Zeppelin fans were so relieved when IV came out after this.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Wouldn’t call it metal but would call it solid early 90s rock with some sleeper social messages. Really loved Cult of Personality and Letter to a Landlord.

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

For the Beatles fans who thought the white album went too hard, there was this album from the Monkees to fall back on. My favorite part was discovering the origin of Mistadobalina.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

1/5

I’m a white person and this is the Whitest Music Ever for people who thought Putumayo compilations were too exotic.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

You don’t need any other Beach Boys in your life if you have this.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

The second Steely Dan album in two weeks? God mocks me.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

That’s definitely a Paul McCartney album.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

This album made me wonder how many times the Ramones listened to it.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

I have purchased this album on CD three times due to how much I listened to it. The in-between song sketches are dated and racist, the songs are flawless.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

I’m not listen to some racist conspiracy theorist if the only way to do so is stream it and pay him.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Gorgeous, will absolutely get played again. It’s not cohesive but it’s an incredible overview of her range.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

At the Drive-In liked this album

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

This was a little long, but I’d forgotten how damn talented Christina is, even on mediocre music.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Cash fucking rules, I can only think of one current country/americana artist who’s played a prison in the last decade. No skips.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

God Ian MacKaye kicks ass. I love short and to the point punk albums.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

The first half of this album is incredible, then it slumps into seven minute bores before finishing strong.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

10 songs 27 minutes no skips I love you dolly

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Well, I can certainly see how this appealed to a ton of people. It's less bro-y than Limp Bizkit, it's better-written, and the "you" that the band sings about is amorphous enough to be a partner/friend/parent/teacher. That being said, I wasn't into this when it came out and I'm still not into it, despite the talent involved.

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

I put this on at work and then successfully dealt with a nine page spreadsheet, all hail Sepultura. This was one of the better metal albums I’ve heard and I’ll listen to it again.

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

In high school in the 1990s, there were always kids who made "California" their whole personality, and they all loved this album (and Sublime). I made it through the first five songs, remembered I had free will over this project, and then listened to the first minute of each of the remaining songs. None of this changed my opinion of the album, but now I can legitimately say I tried. Fuck the Eagles.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

It is 1999, I’m wearing pleather pants and dancing to this album at a dorm party with a Marlboro Light and a bottle of Zima. “This is the coolest I will ever be”, I think. I am mistaken on all counts.

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

I think my brain associated Roxy Music with Brian Eno so much I assumed this would just be a more upbeat Music for Airports and instead it’s glam rock.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Five stars for the first three songs, two for the others. Run Charlie Run is incredible, I want a whole album like that

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

The first Beatles album I ever actually listened to of my own volition, despite being inundated by THE BEATLES ARE THE BEST EVER since childhood. Come Together is the GOAT opening track.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

2/5

I hear the talent but it’s kind drowned out by the misogynoir