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Album	You	Global	Diff
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	5	2.9	+2.1
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
The Cars The Cars	5	3.67	+1.33
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	4	2.75	+1.25
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.77	+1.23
Faust IV Faust	4	2.78	+1.22
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Skylarking XTC	1	3.03	-2.03
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.92	-1.92
One World John Martyn	1	2.82	-1.82
Happy Sad Tim Buckley	1	2.78	-1.78
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.66	-1.66
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	2	3.6	-1.6
Arrival ABBA	2	3.5	-1.5
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.46	-1.46
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4

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Artist	Albums	Average
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33
Radiohead	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
David Bowie	2, 5, 4

5-Star Albums (12)

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

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Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

1/5

Trite lyrics ruined by excessive vibraphone and weird guitar noodling.

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1-Star Albums (4)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

All Ratings

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

I liked some bits but they’re all over the place. Rock? Funk? Blues? Folk? Last song was too much, and the random organ solos interrupted songs I otherwise thought were okay.

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Never quite "got" the Strokes, I see why people do but it just doesn't do it for me for some reason. Never bought the CD or put their songs on playlists, but don't mind listening, just don't seek it out.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Didn’t did the falsetto so much, but really like the back half, have a few new songs on playlists.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Joplin’s singing, 5 stars. The keyboardists that had wayyyy to much input, not so much.

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

I’ve never been a fan of the core sample used in drum and bass, so this was a harder listen. It was good as background music, but I really struggled to actively listen for some songs, and nothing really caught with me.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Almost made four but the back half got too Jammy. Can totally see the roots of southern rock though.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

So many amazing songs, and his sound is so iconic and influential.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

I wasn’t expecting to drop 5 stars on this, but I listened to it 3 times today.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

2/5

Great balls of fire gets this the 2nd star.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Meh plus unoriginal. No idea why this was included, it’s not Jack White’s best work by far.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Great voice and some good sings, but felt pretty dated.

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Liked tracks 2 and 3, Tyler’s comments about sing talking were dead on.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Loved the first half, especially the title track. Back end gets a little chaotic but is still fun.

Common

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Madness

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

20 year old me would probably have liked this more, some decent stuff but nothing mind blowing.

The xx

3/5

The intro song I think is really good but really overplayed, and I am suffer from over saturation like Ambika mentioned.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Teenage Riot alone almost earns 5 stars for me. Love the noise.

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

Too scattered and 70s sounding for me.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Liked Squares but the rest was a disappointment to me.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Stevie made some of the songs tolerable, and there was the occasional interesting music experiment going on, but overall a really hard listen.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Suspicious Minds gets this up to 3, otherwise this just sounds like a parody of itself.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Not sure how original this is, mostly okay and pretty easy to listen too.

Stephen Stills

3/5

I still like Love the One You're With, but the rest of the album was pretty mediocre. I am also suffering from late 60s/early 70s fatigue.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Lots of great songs but some duds and too many interludes. BOB didn’t hit like it used to for me sadly.

Pretenders

3/5

Almost made 4 stars for me, but nothing grabbed me quite enough to add to a playlist which is my rubric for 4 stars. Of course loved Hydne’s voice and I also liked the overall sound and punk-ish influences.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

The saxophones or whatever woodwinds got in the way too much. I think it’s an interesting concept but just wasn’t working well with punk yelling for me.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Really like GBV, but they do suffer from being overly experimental at times.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Too drum and bass heavy for my taste. I feel like the second half shows more of his style that is more to my liking, I liked going out of my mind, but the rest was pretty meh.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

Kinda dug this a little bit, this is more my speed electronic wise

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Was hoping for more out of this, Red Dirt road was pretty good but rest was really tepid.

Dire Straits

4/5

Really catchy, and deeper than I had assumed. I mainly think if Money For Nothing or Sultans if Swing, and was worried the album was going to be weak, but I enjoyed the whole thing.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

I enjoyed this, but it always faded into the background and never actively grabbed me.

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

Sounded pretty modern at times despite a few bad songs. Not what I expected out of a 1969 folk album in a good way.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Almost a 5 if not for a couple of stinkers at the end.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

Dancing Queen and Fernando were okay.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

Surprisingly mediocre.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Great voice, just a little too sappy for my taste

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

That’s right, same as Yes!

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

I enjoyed it, but no one song quite grabbed me enough for 4 stars.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

More of a spoken word album than music. Kinda enjoyed it as mood music.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Really liked her voice but the songs didn’t end up on any of my playlists.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

1/5

Trite lyrics ruined by excessive vibraphone and weird guitar noodling.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Pretty decent, and good background music.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Between the overplayed nature of some songs, a lot of it not aging super well, and the non-singles being pretty weak I’m surprisingly giving this a low rating.

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Adele

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

2112

Rush

2/5

Pretty self indulgent feeling to me, and nothing in particular grabbed me.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Debut

Björk

3/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

I'm not trying to be a hater, but this album just never has done it for me. My wife is convinced I hate Pearl Jam because I always skip/change the station whenever a song from Ten comes on. I actually like (and owned) Yield and Vitalogy back in the day, but I don't think I ever had the slightest inclination to buy Ten. There's just something about Vedder's moaning/warbling on this album that grates me, and I probably wouldn't have such a strong opinion if the songs hadn't been etched into my eardrums for 30 years due to MTV/Alt Rock Radio/Classic Alt radio. I had to suppress an audible "Ugh" when the Alive intro came on, and skipped half the album because I already know it by heart, despite not being a huge fan. The non-megahit songs are mediocre, and there were no hidden gems for me. This might have been a 3 star review if I wasn't sick and tired of most of the hits, but there were multiple skips in this one for me.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Some great songs, but not all.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

Some interesting bits, but mostly noodly experimental non-songs.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

I liked a lot of the guitar, but the high pitched wailing and dumb lyrics spoiled it.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Pretty fun listen, but not anything I’d regularly listen to.

808 State

2/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Hard to hear it for what it was in its era, but overall enjoyable.

One World

John Martyn

1/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Surprisingly meh.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

I knew the couple hits and liked then, but the overall album was pretty weak and disappointing.

Van Halen

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

This was pretty meh aside from the two singles.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

Too far into noise, there were some good parts, but it never managed to be coherent enough for me.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Closer to a 3.5, some catchy songs.

I See You

The xx

3/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Skylarking

XTC

1/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Might be nostalgia, might not, but can listen to this all the way through still.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Didn’t hit quite the same as it did 18 years ago, but still pretty good.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

This was really interesting and a unique sound, but had trouble separating it from the Nirvana unplugged songs.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

I've got a soft spot for Drug Buddy and It's a Shame about Ray, but overall is meh and feels super dated.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Eagles

3/5

Propped up by Take it Easy and Peaceful Easy Feeling, otherwise this would have been 2 stars.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Garbage

3/5

The Velvet Underground

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

I have a soft spot for white boy blues, what can I say?

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Some of it felt a bit dated and overplayed, but still really enjoyed it. Not quite in 5 star territory for me.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Blur

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Some good songs watered down with a lot of meh.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Crawling and In The End were tolerable, but the rest was kinda the worst of nu metal white trying to sound harder than they were.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

I remember this being better in middle school.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Kinda dug this more than I would have expected, and must've had a Sabbath streak at some point as most of the songs were familiar to me.

The Cars

5/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Wanted to like this more, but couple of skips in there.

Truth

Jeff Beck

2/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Some decent folk, but nothing really grabbed me.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

As someone who listened to a lot of classic rock in HS, this is all pretty well trod and stale for me. Also, 3 dudes from Florida and one from Cali wrote Sweet Home Alabama, so that's minus one star.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Had higher hopes for this, but Solsbury Hill was the only good song on this for me, the rest was meh.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

War

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising