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Album	You	Global	Diff
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.32	+1.68
My Generation The Who	5	3.42	+1.58
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	5	3.45	+1.55
Metallica Metallica	5	3.79	+1.21
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.82	+1.18
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
L.A. Woman The Doors	1	3.66	-2.66
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	1	3.25	-2.25
The Stranger Billy Joel	2	3.86	-1.86
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.84	-1.84
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	1	2.84	-1.84
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	1	2.82	-1.82
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.67	-1.67
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	2	3.47	-1.47
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.45	-1.45

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Artist	Albums	Average
Aretha Franklin	2	5

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Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Immediate though on opening baseline, “God, bands fucking loved the “reggae” demo on their Casio keyboards in the 80’s.” Track one: I hate this so far. Absolute: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING, IS THIS A JOKE?? Might have to stop listening to this one. Fuck I hate this. Perfect way: okay, I can see why this is their popular song from this album, but I don’t really love it personally. I can just recognize the hallmarks of a “good” song in it 🤷🏻‍♂️ The very next song: WHAT IS THIS BABY VOICE??? God I hated this so much. I hope I never hear it again.

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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

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In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

I know this is a celebrated album, but I just don’t get Radiohead generally. Nothing stands out on this album that would drive me to re-listen, but there’s nothing I exactly dislike either. 6/10 Okay album; okay day.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

Loved this, immediately added to my library to relisten.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Wow, “on any other day” was a shitty song before the lyric, “and my fine young son has turned out gay” registered. Oof. So far, it seems like there’s a very good reason why “message in a bottle” is the only song on this album that I’m familiar with. No Place This Time is fun — kind of surprised this isn’t a more currently well known one.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

I dunno, it’s hard for me to listen to Talking Heads and not hear almost a novelty band like the b52s. I know they’re not, but David Byrne’s voice is just so crazy that it’s hard for me to get past that to connect with the music. This didn’t do much for me.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Track one: this feels like 4 pretty good ideas for a hook mushed into one song. Track two: first familiar song I’ve heard in a few days doing this. Totally fine song, don’t feel any differently hearing it in context than any other time I’ve heard it 🤷🏻‍♂️ All in all, nothing here that compels me to revisit.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Totally fine, sounds like every other bossa nova song/album I’ve ever heard, but nothing to come back to particularly.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Idiot wind - Dylan diss track. Everything on here is great!

Metallica

5/5

Fuck yeah. This album fucking rips. Not perfect songwriting from end to end, but instruments and vocals are perfect in every case. Definitely some new ones in here, good album listen.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

Unremarkable 🤷🏻‍♂️

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

-Born in 69 is a great one -Ooh love the crunchiness of on a rope (crunchy sax??? Sick.) - drop out - great hook, added - ball lightning lyric “want some cheese with your whine?” Woof. Lyrics are definitely the weakest part of this album overall, but that lyric Fucking suuuuucks

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

I almost always skip La Grange and Sharp Dressed Man when it comes up on some random playlist, and that’s kind of 98% of ZZ Top songs I can name? This was fine 🤷🏻‍♂️ They’re extremely technically proficient and the production value is unreal. I respect it for sure, but this kind of blues is not something I seek out, and this doesn’t change that.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

For better or for worse, if you’ve heard “Come on Eileen,” you know exactly what to expect from the other songs on this album that you haven’t heard before.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

It goes without saying, but the vocals on this are just unreal. I have probably heard all of these songs before, but loved hearing them assembled together too. Also great to hear the first (I think) appearance of a Beatles cover in my 1001 review!

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Hearing “chain of fools” as an opener to an album is such a confident, quiet first few seconds of an album, with straight fire for the rest of the song. Goddamn. I already know I’m going to listen to this again before getting to track two. 🤯 Had no idea she had a “People Get Ready” cover. Floored.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

Pretty sure this is a new album/artist for me, loving the opening track already. This is a sampling gold mine haha. Love how musical this is, hearing samples of real instruments feels so refreshing in 2023.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

The Smiths are great, just not something I seek out a ton. I think these were all new to me, Happy Birthday was hilarious (for a little while at least). All good, just not super “for me” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

It sure is short!

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

Track #1: buckle the fuck up, this song is 23 minutes long and starts with random string plucking that starts to resolve into a pattern of some sort. Here we go. Not for me. Totally fine but no fun to be had for me. Gave that “feedback” track a solid chance but it’s the only track I skipped.

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Good!

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Very nice, chill background music.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

I think this is fully new to me. I might be the first to notice, but there are very subtle political messages slipped in to some of these lyrics. Fine album, but obviously represents a moment and a place that I have no connection to, so its impact on me was fairly limited.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Boss.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Adele

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

My Generation

The Who

5/5

Eagles

3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

“We’ve only just begun” is a perfectly nice song that’s been totally ruined by overuse (both sincere and in parody). God, no question why I’ve never heard this BAD cover of Help. Though this does (as always) make me wish more good bands today did covers of contemporary peers. This was such a common thing for most of the 20th century and it’s just gone now, very weird. Close to You - wow, again, death by ironic overuse of a perfectly nice song. Baby it’s you - Two Beatles covers (sort of) on one album, sheesh. Capitalizing on the breakup I guess? I’ll never fall in love again - And the second consecutive Burt Bacharach cover!! Wild.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Fine 🤷🏻‍♂️ added one or two songs to my library, but not really an album-wide draw for me. I like it, but it’s definitely early days for this kind of music.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Good! My kind of thing for background/dinner party type lists.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Louis prima fucking rules

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

The hits are great, the rest is fine.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Forever tied to the Rock Band start screen. Solid! I like the singles and the ones I don’t recognize too.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

Very message-y in an early 2000s way, which gets a little old, hut generally good!

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

1/5

Sorry, skipped.

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

Good! The kind of spacey bullshit I like sometimes, right in line with Tame Impala. Must be a good 🍄 listen.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

1/5

Oof, I dunno if I’m gonna make it through this long-ass album (which clearly is the basis for Kid Rock’s entire musical catalog, except he’s so fucking edgy bro). #4 this fucking sucks. Patience waning. Nah man, I’m out, listening to the hits as ID’d by Spotify and then I’m moving on.

Blur

2/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

Wow, guess I’ve not been paying attention and/or have only heads censored versions of the lyrics of Money for Nothing. Gross.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2/5

One of the last years you could spend half a verse of a hip hop song talking about how much you love your mother in the same song you do “shave and a haircut.”

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Intense. Kind of ghoulish in retrospect, but Bowie knew what he was doing. I like it now, I bet I’ll love it in 10 years.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Gave up, totally fine but just a Stills album.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

I actually really liked the first track but then it just kind of devolved into cheesy 80’s music (mediocre cheesy 80’s music to be specific).

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

I don’t even dislike the “sound” of this album, I’ve definitely heard and liked some of these and the band’s other songs before. In isolation, I can vibe with their songs. But a full album is very cloying for me. Sorry CHVRCHES.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

I have high hopes for this being a very vibey album 🤞🏼 I was correct, a lot at once but a great part of a playlist.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses