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Album	You	Global	Diff
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
m b v My Bloody Valentine	4	2.72	+1.28
Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer	4	2.8	+1.2
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	3.99	+1.01
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rumours Fleetwood Mac	1	4.45	-3.45
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	1	3.6	-2.6
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.48	-2.48
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	1	3.39	-2.39
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
Sound Affects The Jam	1	3.26	-2.26
Treasure Cocteau Twins	1	3.1	-2.1
Purple Rain Prince	2	4.02	-2.02
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	1	2.85	-1.85
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.84	-1.84

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Rumours

Fleetwood Mac · 2 likes

1/5

Meh

1-Star Albums (9)

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You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Really enjoyed. Cool to hear the influence they must’ve had on the gorillaz. “Right here, right now” was a great song, and great album intro. Set the stage and tone.

Sound Affects

The Jam

1/5

Meh. I appreciate the early British ska/punk roots but don’t enjoy actually listening to it. I prefer Joy Division or their peers. Just sounded too much like chaotic noise at times and I found myself zoning out each song. I’d give it two stars for nostalgia but one for actually enjoying it.

Paul Simon

2/5

Enjoyed it, didn’t love it. I loved Simon & Garfunkel as a young kid, his voice made me nostalgic for those albums.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Love Dolly. Great songs and storytelling. Her voice can resemble a goat or sheep, but I’ll forgive it.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Not a fan of the early 2000s rock sound, example “good fortune” but always here for some female anger and rock. Big Exit is great.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

“Mad” and “Don’t wish me well” 👍🏼

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Terrific. The first 36 seconds of Sway alone earns a high rating and places this at the top of all albums.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

I was excited with “Never let me down again” but quickly got fatigued with the 80s synth melodrama. “Pimpf” and “I want you know”…only ok if picturing Will Ferrell singing in some crazy sketch. Otherwise cringe.

Foo Fighters

2/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Under the Bridge is a great song. But it is the one that sounds very unique on this album, unlike all the others. With some of these albums it just sounds like a blur, gray noise, and it just becomes background noise and I don't pay attention. This was the first album where I actively thought, a handful of times, Jesus H please turn this off. Sounds like the album of a methed out guy in his early 40s in Venice Beach rocking out while digging through a trashcan. I had fairly high hopes and they were quickly deflated.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Classic. Incredible. 50 years and still hitting all the right shots. Subjectively I enjoy ‘wish you were here’ and ‘the wall’ more, but talk about the definition of what good, groundbreaking music is. I feel fortunate that I heard this album for the first time while also having one of my first exposures to marijuana. No longer a fan of weed, but feel like that was a signature pairing for 15 year old me.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Good listen

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

This album is partly why I was looking forward to this 1,001 albums generator, to find new music. Blue Cheer is awesome. Downloaded the album, love it.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

He really heard Neil young’s Alabama and said, “I can do that! But make it peppier and with the n word!” I just hear Toy Story.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

'Music has the right to children' is an awesome album title.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Terrific, listened all weekend. Brand New Cadillac is the best. Classic.

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

All in its feelings and I’m here for it. Classic.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Overall not my favorite album of his, but David Bowie is absolutely a personal favorite, and the song “Life on Mars?” is one of the greatest songs that’s ever existed.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Compton’s in the muthafucking house. Fuck the police is a forever classic.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Amazing. I’m a better person when listening to this. Existentially at a Havana cafe mid afternoon, smirking at the absurdity of all dramatic emotions.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

Meh

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

Meh

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Huh, had never heard of them. Didn’t add anything to my library, but didn’t hate it.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Incredible; love him and loved seeing him live.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Love it!

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

The Clash

4/5

I am thankful for the Clash.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

What a great album. Each song I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Classics.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

I want to like it more than I do. I'm too old and not cool.

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Nice indie folk album

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Reggae compliments dreary Oregon weather all winter long. 400 years is a classic.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

1/5

Second album I had to skip a song and actively disliked almost every minute.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Enjoyed it. Never listen to disco, but a fun change up.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Enjoyed it

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Badass. Loved it.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

1/5

Only listened to the first track, didn’t like it.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Terrific

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Da Funk and Around the World would be on the soundtrack of my freshman year of college, and bring back the best of memories. The rest of the album felt like a Rorschach; at first the simple repetitiveness felt like a way to free my mind in the abstract. Then with a crying baby it felt like an endless way to torture me.

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Not for me

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Enjoyed it more than I thought it would. “Eggs and sausage” raised it from 3 stars to 4, it was that great.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

Wonderwall is such a cliche and also awesome.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Love it

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Good. 3 stars for drumming.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Meh. Was intrigued, but felt it underperformed.

Play

Moby

4/5

Ride all night, yeah we ride all day Some may come and some may stay

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Was surprised by how much I actually enjoyed listening through. Angsty sure, but my 14 year old self had better taste than I had expected. Wrestled with a 3 or 4 star.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Falls on that short list of perfect albums. It’s tattooed on my psyche. Ancestry.com lists me as 2% ok computer.

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

I respect her for stuff she’s done, but this music isn’t for me. I went in with an open mind but these lyrics seem childish at best. Also, I thought she was a country music singer at one point?

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Good stuff

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Terrific

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

I’m not going to put it on in my daily life to listen, but it was really fun to play and feels like fundamental music.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Not my genre but interesting and easy listening

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Sounds like if Charlie and Mac made a band. I was excited to listen and was disappointed. It all felt, flat. Vaguely comical. Not in a good way.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Classic

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

1/5

That album font was an indicator

Purple Rain

Prince

2/5

I only listened to the first few songs so I really do need to finish. Prince is one of those artists that people with really great taste love, and I I just don’t get it. This time around I didn’t enjoy what I heard, but this is clearly a me problem.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Suede

3/5

Metallica

3/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5