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Album	You	Global	Diff
Happy Sad Tim Buckley	5	2.78	+2.22
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	5	3.25	+1.75
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.32	+1.68
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.33	+1.67
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	5	3.35	+1.65
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.35	+1.65
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.42	+1.58
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.49	+1.51

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	1	3.37	-2.37
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	1	2.86	-1.86
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.67	-1.67
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.58	-1.58
Butterfly Mariah Carey	1	2.48	-1.48
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	2	3.39	-1.39
xx The xx	2	3.37	-1.37
Private Dancer Tina Turner	2	3.29	-1.29
Soul Mining The The	2	3.17	-1.17

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There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

1/5

Didn't expect to be so bored by this

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4-Star Albums (21)

1-Star Albums (3)

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Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Cool stuff but reggae vibe is too monotonous for me

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Cool

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Funky drum loops cool Songwriting sometimes unmemorable and long winded Some good hooks Great voice Very soulful

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Great tunes, harrowing war song, lovely hooks, dreamy voice

The xx

2/5

Boring, not dynamic enough. Timid atmosphere is cute but doesn't hold its own for the entire runtime.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Exceptional lyrics, nice songs. I really want to like Dylan, but I can't get past his vocal timbre and delivery.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Great drum loops, cool bass lines. Works well if you get lost in the repetition, not so well if you're too actively focusing on it.

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

I can appreciate the soundscapes the band creates with the guitar effects, drum loops and bass lines, though none of the songs really stick.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Fun as hell

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Cool record, great production. Unfortunately held back by its length and monotonous tempo choices.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Splendid. Love the moody songs, production and varied songwriting. Will come back to this.

The Libertines

2/5

Something about the sleazyness of it all annoys me to hell.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Excellent riffage. If not for Mustaine's vocals, I might have actually liked this band. That blues cut in the back end is weird as hell.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Nothing crazy songwriting wise, but definitely a fun listen with some good tunes

Black Sabbath

4/5

Rock and roll.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Excellent.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

There are albums in this book that make you appreciate other albums.

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

Starts out fun, but drags on. Monotonous, overstretched songs.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

Meh

1999

Prince

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

love it. love stipe's voice, love the songs, love it.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

Weird, kinda fun but not memorable

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Cool tunes, not loving using voice still

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Great piano playing, not quite engaging enough for me

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Some songs great, some songs just okay

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

The wrong Elvis

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

Nice singles, boring as fuck otherwise

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

Can't handle his voice, also wtf those racist lyrics in "Rednecks" ???

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Classic

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Fantastic songs, great guitar work, I love the production and sounds.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

Not bad just not my jam

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Old people music

Suede

2/5

Band sounds cool but his voice

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

So much swagger, so much arrogance, so much fun

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

1/5

Didn't expect to be so bored by this

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

Vocals and monotonous songwriting ruin it for me

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

Guitar sounds are great, bass as well. I appreciate the thematic sounds in the production (the car sounds indicating a journey of some kind). I don't connect with the lyrics at all. They actively make me want to vomit and turn the record off. So that's what I did.

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

I appreciate the production and I love the sound of her voice on this record. The songs are nice enough, though I don't think I will be coming back to this one because of the strong disconnect I feel with the lyrical themes.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Lovely to hear a legend like him in what seems to sound like his prime. Much charismatic talk in between that slows it down a little too much, but a fun record nevertheless.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Harmless; but also, nothing memorable.

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

Vocals throw me off. Guitar work is cool.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Couldn't be anything else than a five. Sometimes horrible but truly iconic vocals, fantastic songs and some greater-than-the-original covers.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

The goofy vocals are.. goofy - but the beats and samples are so fantastic. The record is weighed down a bit by filler tracks and skits that don't always land, but in general, I had a good time with this album.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Opens with a great drive to it - really feels like a ride. Slows down a bit with some nice emo and shoegazey elements which I don't mind at all. From there, I can't help but feel like it drags on a little bit too much...

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Great. Will come back to this 100%. Lovely tunes, a great voice and thoroughly enjoyable instrumental breaks that are written with care.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Okay, but it didn't make me feel anything

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

punk rock 👍

The Joshua Tree

2/5

The hits are the hits, the rest doesn't do anything for me.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

A chaotic though reasonably enjoyable collection of what essentially feels like background music.

The Specials

3/5

Well, it's ska... but also kinda catchy...

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

HEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

Quite bland. Not bad, just totally... okay.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

The album cover had me excited. Music was alright.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

Looks like a rock and roll. Sounds like rock and roll. Must be rock and roll.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Fun to finally sit down for a full record from a big name. Great even though it kind of sounds monotonous, it shines in that monotony. Awesome energy.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Cool

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

weird but in a good way the album has a certain dreamlike quality to it like a fever dream - which i greatly enjoy. i think the female vocalist has a great sounding voice, sounding like she has a lot of fun in what she's doing. very energetic, infectious. and the guy screaming things that seem kind of random just totally fits into the whole image

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Looks like a drug induced mess, sounds like a drug induced mess

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Cool!

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Plenty of great sounds and compositions to hear, though not all equally catchy, still really enjoyable

Play

Moby

4/5

Wild Gift

3/5

Fun, dusty garage-punk - though not all that memorable

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Bonnie's voice is coaxing enough, but I can't connect enough to the rest of the material

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

4/5

Not Steely Dan, but still solid fun

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

5/5

Fantastic collection and performance of great, soulful, bluesy songs

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Instant five star

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Beautiful, chaotic, wild

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Great tones, great riffs, great mix

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

So repetitive ..... not sure how to get into the trance of it, but I keep feeling intrigued by it.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Absolutely beautiful, the horns, the rhythms, the tunes

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

I've only ever heard this guy being referred to as an absolute legend. In light of that, this was.. whelming.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

5 starts for homework music, 2 stars for active listening

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Five stars for the atmosphere and production. There's honestly not many hooks that stick with me, but it simply doesn't matter on this record.

Pretenders

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Some truly haunting and beautiful stuff on here. The rest is okay.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Sleazy in the most enjoyable way

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Interesting to hear, though repetitive and not that ejoyable after the novelty wears off

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

The slower songs are great.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

Homophobic, misogynistic, insane, funny, charismatic, worrying, bipolar. Barring all the insane shit, it's a great record. If you can let go a little.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Simplistic enough, though it doesn't grab me

Pink Moon

Nick Drake