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Album	You	Global	Diff
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Dummy Portishead	5	3.71	+1.29
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pump Aerosmith	1	3.11	-2.11
Vanishing Point Primal Scream	1	2.83	-1.83
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.59	-1.59
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	3	4.43	-1.43
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	2	3.42	-1.42
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	2	3.38	-1.38
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	2	3.06	-1.06

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

killer album art. i loved this, it was fun in concept & catchy (even the instrumentals) & just the right amount of upbeat + melancholy

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1-Star Albums (2)

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She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, When You Were Mine, Time After Time, She Bop, All Through the Night in a row really did it for me, especially the last two, and I adored I Kiss You and Yeah Yeah. Considering I just listed most of the album, very successful first time listen and super fun to really listen to the songs that largely existed as boppy background music for much of my life. Really freakin good 80’s pop if not necessarily my go-to when it comes to repeat listening.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

super super love the female rock band vibes of it all. fun & easy listening, but I keep finding myself wishing for more energy. perfect album cover. fav of the bunch: tonite, this town, our lips are sealed

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

what’s your name? who’s your daddy? 🌟 god I really love the name the zombies. favs of the bunch: time of the season, this will be our year, changes

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

this album turned my morning walk into an entirely different experience and confirmed my once largely theoretical love for jazz. watched a video of rufus jones on the drums for whirly-bird too and holy shit!! favs of the bunch: the kid from red bank, midnite blue, double-oh

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

unhinged, atmospheric, funny. a guy and a band that are unabashedly themselves. favs of the bunch: i zimbra, mind, animals

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

hypnotizing, political. long songs that somehow never outstayed their welcome fav of the bunch: zombie

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

I do enjoy a sad boy with a guitar. A 90’s album that seems like a direct precursor to some of my fav music of today but just doesn’t have the same personal nostalgia factor. favs of the bunch: speed trial, between the bars

Garbage

4/5

girls rock love, love Shirley Manson. wasn’t sure on the first listen but the second listen confirmed the bangers favs of the bunch: queer, only happy when it rains, as heaven is wide, not my idea

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

A near perfect album that’s both political & charming, which is so up my alley. The only part that doesn’t work for me all the time is the percussion in Right On but still 5 easy

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

I love my parents but they never listened to western music, so I have never really engaged in music from before I was born in the 90’s until, well, now. which just kinda means that when I find albums from before then that I like so much, I also feel a bit of envy of those who were able to grow up with it. anyway, this I really like this album

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

my ranking system is very random but I do feel like I lend a lot to my feelings on the impressiveness of a recording. and from all I’ve read & heard of this album, it feels genius. who am i to deny that impulse.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

In my formative years in the 00’s, this is exactly what I thought all music from the 60’s sounded like

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

don’t like the dude but very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the soft rock/jazzy instrumental choices. Including the flute! I also am recently engaged and feeling more romantic than usual

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

I’m noticing that I have been rating jazz albums really high which trust me is a surprise to me too since I haven’t historically listened to jazz. I’d say a pleasant surprise though. Really strong start here with Mandela.

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

so much of this takes me back to my childhood at the hindu temple - the drums, the call and repeat - that I am both nostalgic and grateful to have understood the universality of that experience, even if I cannot see myself ever coming back to the recording. live, however, is a different story.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

there’s some part of my brain it scratches well.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

the re-listenability is high for this one. mixed feelings about the thin white duke era but such a good album. favs of the bunch: station to station, golden hour

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

i'd love listening to a bluesy jam band live, but as an album it just kept fading into the background as they riffed, as impressive as they were. god, do i love that album cover though.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

I first tried listening to this on my morning walk to work and thought it was such a bummer I wasn’t as big of a fan as I thought I’d be. I tried again at home, windows open into the night, no distractions and holy shit it’s actually SO good?? Just needed the right vibes for the reverberant, trippy melancholy.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

some real gems and I love how almost every one has a different favorite on this expansive, if disjointed, album. I tended to prefer the buckingham songs (I’m realizing my affinity for post punk) but some beautiful songs from c. mcvie and stevie nicks too. I enjoyed so much of the album but did feel like I also listened to a lot of filler.

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

shoegaze is a new genre for me but i could def get behind this. loved seagull, polar bear, dreams burn down, vapour trail, taste. good, noisy, and a bit-samey songs that I had a fun time with and that gave my bf a headache.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

loved beer drinkers & hell raisers, waitin for the bus, and the image of the mexican feast that accompanies the record

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

killer album art. i loved this, it was fun in concept & catchy (even the instrumentals) & just the right amount of upbeat + melancholy

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

I wanted to Iike this so much more and while there were a few I did love - Silver Rocket, The Sprawl, Eric’s Trip, Candle - I can’t see myself coming back to the rest of the album as often (noisy in a way I found more headache-inducing than enjoyable).

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

1/5

through no real fault of its own I just…can’t finish listening to this

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

I loved this. First listen caught me dancing at my desk at work. Every song was a great one.

Black Sabbath

4/5

super pleasantly surprised - can honestly say not what i expected but what i got was way better

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

first album I’ve had on this generator that I already know & love so well. specifically calls back my first year in the city where I constantly played this album for needed comfort & energy when everything else was so new

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

pleasant - I think if I pulled my favs I’d get a great album but with the length as it is, it began to feel meandering. iconic album art though. remember liking my sweet lord, wah wah, awaiting on you all, all things must pass, art of dying

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

This album /feels/ very 2016, which is too close and crowded with secondhand embarrassment for me that I wince even when the beat’s catchy.

Gorillaz

4/5

there is other gorillaz I like more but fundamentally I just love their sound. Clint Eastwood is a longtime fav (a whole star just for that song tbh) but also love sound check, 19-2000

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

obviously talented, but I guess 70’s pop just doesn’t hit for me like it once did

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

5 as an expansive album that does so many genres so well. 4 for personal taste.

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

I immediately am ready to purchase the vinyl so I can have this playing every time I need an energy boost

Odelay

Beck

5/5

obviously influenced by a variety of genres, so it’s experimental, catchy, fun - so glad I for this first listen (from my birth year!)

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

that sure is some hard rock

Pump

Aerosmith

1/5

that sure is some hard rock part 2

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

it was cheesy & sentimental & I adored it

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

classic Christmas tracks for the few days a year I’m in the mood for Xmas music

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

punk rock that blurred together when i wasn't paying enough attention. i see the appeal but don't see myself coming back to it

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

that sure is some hard rock pt 3 turns out hard rock isn’t super my thing. I do appreciate smoke on the water and pictures of home for what they are though

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5