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Album	You	Global	Diff
Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	5	2.58	+2.42
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	5	2.92	+2.08
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3.01	+1.99
Tank Battles Dagmar Krause	4	2.13	+1.87
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	5	3.16	+1.84
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.32	+1.68
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	2	3.29	-1.29
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	2	3.12	-1.12
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	3	4.11	-1.11
The Man Who Travis	2	3.01	-1.01

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Tom Waits	2	5

5-Star Albums (21)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

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Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Oh Tom waits, I love it! It feels like you are really sitting in a club.

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We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Listening notes? Good music, feels very late 70s East Coast/New York disco funk. Not totally my thing but solid.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

I didn't expect the album to end when it did. Kept waiting for one more song. Classic punk.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

This takes me back to 1994. An amazing album. Truly worth listening to more than the singles. A nice balance between punk/rap. Very NYC. The instrumental pieces are so underrated (at the time never got air time but really show the quality). I still know most of the words. Still so very good.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Classic

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Another classic! I'm on the fence with Dylan. I can not deny the greatness, but man, his musicianship could be better. But it did shaped a generation, so it is hard to fault it. Again, glad I listened, but I don't think it will go into daily rotation.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Love the Beatles. Don't love this album.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Not my favorite

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

I love this album so very much.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

So I know I should like this album. But I just didn't. It could be that it would be amazing to hear live, but it was like there was something missing that I couldn't put my finger on.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Oh Tom waits, I love it! It feels like you are really sitting in a club.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Having never actually listened to Pink Floyd before. Clearly I have heard much of their music over the years.... But never in the album unit. And it is rather wonderful. I understand why people enjoy it so. The instrumental parts are very good.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

4/5

Very Berlin 1920. I can't figure out if I want to listen with a score, so I can really follow what is happening, or if I should just listen for the shape of the line. I also don't really know enough about Germany to fully understand the deeper meaning.

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Amazing.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

It speaks of a time (mid/late 90s) and a place (uk club). I find example of that exact thing but it doesn't feel ground breaking or revalutionary.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

I'm finding this a bit middle of the road. The vocals a good. The orchestra is good. But it isn't knocking my socks off.

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

This album is neither the Beatles nor James. And oddly might be a DNF. Well I have two more songs to go. I think there are better albums from this time and in this genera. Ooooh a hidden track, that's fun in the digital age.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Good good. No real comments to either for or against.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

A classic. Which I have never listened through all the through. 1992 southern CA is a time and place. I don't know if this album is inline with the actual truth, but there it is.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Amazing. classic.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Still good going on 40 years old. It reminds me of being a kid when the music was everywhere. I'm on fire is still a cheesy song.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

I used to listen to this a lot when I was a kid. But I feel like the music had lost some of its richness over the years. Like the recording could have had a fuller sound (maybe it was my phone, or the room I was in, or my memory being different).

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Kind of amazing. Back in the day I used to listen to the pixies but somehow I never listened to this album. There was lots of instrumentals which is also really great. It is hard to hide when there is not vocals.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

I felt like I needed to get much more dressed up to listen to this. And drink a martini. It was a tight album. Vocals were amazing.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Amazing!

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Very 80s goth. I was just missing my eyeliner.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

A classic.

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

A few days I listened to a song or two, but just couldn't get into the album. A second listen is helping. Also figuring out where in time this album sits also really helps. I can understand the importance and what it influenced next. I know the old rockers not the stuff that made them famous, and honestly I think I understand why.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

As always, Tom waits is amazing.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

I get this weird feeling from Jack White. Like there is some sort of weird southern Gothic alternate universe he has come from. And he has seen things no one else has seen. The music is solid.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

A jem!

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

I can see the strains of amazing in this album. It feels very early 90s. I think her later stuff is better. Her vocals are just.... Breathtaking.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

This album was so long!

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

5/5

I'm surprised by the year. This sounds later then 1994. Which might point to why this is on this list. Very tight, if a bit shocking to be to shocking.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

The later remixes I think are better but an ok listen.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Amazing that I didn't listen to this before An amazing voice, irreverent lyrics. A huge talent.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

5/5

New album for me but not new songs. His poetry is lovely and there are many amazing exams here. His voice hasn't dropped and is still smooth, but totally hypnotic.

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

It took me two tries to get through this album. Sonically it is a wall of sound for the first chunk and my brain can't always handle that. Very 70s, pretty German.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

A classic. I enjoyed it.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

So mellow.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

I loved this album. So many listens back in the day. It holds up really beautifully. I also like the instrumentals a lot. They have ages very well.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

A classic. I don't know if I listened to the whole album before. But upbeat and lovely.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Oh man, I can smell damp shoes and wet hoodies. Portlanders don't wear raincoats or carry umbrellas! Perma wet cotton is where it is at for months on end. And dark. No sun. And this music reflects this. Like a quiet walk home after a house party, with a light drizzle. Just enough rain to make your glasses speckled but not enough to get you truly wet. I'm a bit surprised I hadn't listen to any Elliott Smith, really, till now.

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Interesting given the time period. I would have placed this later in time if I didn't see the release date. The face it was from 2 years earlier is interesting.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

It felt like I walked into the wrong party. It was a great party. But I don't know if I would have been invited or if I was stoned enough to stay.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Cultural appropriation at its finest! But you can also tell why they grew into what they grew into. I enjoyed the later half of the album.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

A band friends were obsessed with in high school. I never listened. I can see why the obsession.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Sadly, I found this album to be forgettable. Like it was on and I listened. But it would stay in my head long enough to firm an opinion.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Too 1970s for my taste.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Mah. Iconic song, so so album.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Reasonable. Glad I listened. Not earth shattering.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Smooth.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Tennessee country at its finest. I'm guessing this is the original love hurts song as well.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Nothing I ever listened to straight through. But I'm sure I've heard it all before

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Miles Davis is an amazing horn player. Simple but true. The depth of his playing was sublime.

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

A little too sacra 1970s for my taste. But extremely well crafted and executed. It's a shame that Karen and Carpenter didn't live longer. It'd be amazing to hear what she would have come up with.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I understand why these are classics. Nothing really jumped out at me on this listen.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

4/5

The guitar reminds me of Buddy Holly. There's some interesting originals. Not totally wowed by it though.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

Captures a time and a feeling. But I can't seem to get myself to finish the album. Which says something about it.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Love it

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

A classic that has not fully listened through. I'm guessing would be better stones, or at least not listening to first thing in the morning.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

5/5

I used to have a mix with some of this stuff, but no names so I could really find it again. This is so joyous!

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Classics. Iconic. And sort of mah.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Lovely. The first track being very well known. But very smooth.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

A classic. Listened to part on shuffle, I don't recommend that.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

I don't think that I've listen to this I've before. You can see what they grew into.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Her voice is breath taking.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

I feel like, given the dates on this album, that this is what everyone copies. I expected to not like it, but I found that it was rather well put together.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Interesting that it is early Brian Eno. I can see how it was important, but also mah.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Very of the time. Neither for not against.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Perfectly fine.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Again, I know all the songs but never really listened. Streaming doesn't do these albums any favors. There is an arc that is built on each side. And I can't figure out if songbird as the end on side a or the start of the b side. And I feel like the meaning would change depending. Amazing vocals.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Great. I don't think I have all that much to say about it. Driving beats and lyrics from art School students.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

I didn't get drawn into the music.