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Album	You	Global	Diff
GREY Area Little Simz	5	3.24	+1.76
Teen Dream Beach House	5	3.26	+1.74
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	5	3.37	+1.63
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	5	3.44	+1.56
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	1	3.62	-2.62
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.48	-2.48
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	1	3.3	-2.3
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.57	-1.57
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	2	3.56	-1.56
Green R.E.M.	2	3.47	-1.47
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.43	-1.43
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.38	-1.38

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Who	3	4.33
Arcade Fire	3	4.33

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Bob Dylan	4, 1, 4

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Teen Dream

Beach House · 1 likes

5/5

Favorite tracks: Fucking all of it

Van Halen

Van Halen · 1 likes

3/5

Notable tracks Ain’t Talkin’ About Love, You Really Got Me, Runnin’ With The Devil

4-Star Albums (86)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

1-Star Albums (7)

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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

1/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

The Doors

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Favorite tracks: Hazey Jane II, At The Chime Of A City Clock, Northern Sky

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Notable Track: Tutti Frutti

GREY Area

Little Simz

5/5

Favorite tracks: Venom, 101 FM, Therapy, Sherbet Sunset

Teen Dream

Beach House

5/5

Favorite tracks: Fucking all of it

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Favorite Tracks: Hotwax, The New Pollution, Novacane, Where It’s At, High 5 (Rock The Catskills), Ramshackle

Iron Maiden

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

Notable track: Shadowboxin’

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Notable track: Chameleon

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Notable tracks: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Head Over Heels / Broken, Shout

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Favorite tracks: Day Is Done, The Thoughts Of Mary Jane, Man In A Shed, Saturday Sun

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Favorite tracks: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, Nowhere Fast, Barbarism Begins at Home, Meat is Murder

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

4/5

Notable track: She Wants To Move

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Notable track: Search and Destroy // Favorite Tracks: Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, Penetration, Shake Appeal

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Favorite Track: Lady of the Island

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Notable track: Every Breath You Take // Favorite Track: Synchronicity II

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Notable tracks: Take a Bow, Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, Soldier’s Poem

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Notable track: Let’s Get it On

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Notable tracks: Une Annee Sans Lumiere, Crown of Love, Wake Up, Rebellion (Lies), In the Backseat

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

Notable tracks: Never Let Me Down Again, Sacred, Little 15, I Want You Now, To Have and to Hold, Pimpf, Pleasure Little Treasure

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Notable tracks: Without You, I’ll Never Leave You, Gotta Get Up, Coconut

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Notable tracks: Dress Rehearsal Rag, Famous Blue Raincoat

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Notable tracks: Hungry Like the Wolf, The Chauffeur

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Notable tracks: Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up, Firestarter

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Notable tracks: Blue Lines, Unfinished Sympathy

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Notable tracks: Everlasting Light, Sinister Kid, Howlin’ For You

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Notable track: Through With Buzz

The Undertones

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Notable tracks: fucking all of it

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Notable tracks: Brown Paper Bag, New Forms, Heroes

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Notable track: Zombie

Garbage

4/5

Notable tracks: Only Happy When It Rains, Stupid Girl

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Notable tracks: El Cumbanchero, Aggo Elugua, Billumba-Palo Congo, Choferito-Plena, Rhapsodia Del Maraville

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Notable track: Bladerunners, No. 1 St.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Notable tracks, Pretty in Pink, No Tears

Van Halen

3/5

Notable tracks Ain’t Talkin’ About Love, You Really Got Me, Runnin’ With The Devil

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Notable tracks: Drive My Car, The Word, Michelle, Run For Your Life

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Notable tracks: DLZ, Golden Age, Dancing Choose

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Notable tracks: all

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Notable track: Mad Cyril

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Notable tracks: all of it

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Notable tracks: Sisters of the Moon, Angel, Over & Over, The Ledge, Think About Me, Sara, Tusk

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Notable tracks: Lakutshn, Ilanga, The Naughty Little Flea, House of the Rising Sun

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Notable tracks: Most of it lol

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Notable tracks: Four Women, What More Can I Say?, Lilac Wine, That’s All I Ask, Wild Is The Wind

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Scentless Apprentice, Heart-Shaped Box, Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge, Very Ape, Milk It, Pennyroyal Tea, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, All Apologies

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Notable tracks: all

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Notable tracks: Yes, Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforoneday, Of Walking Abortion, Archives of Pain, Mausoleum, This Is Yesterday

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Notable tracks: Graceland, I Know What I Know, Gumboots, You Can Call Me Al

2112

Rush

3/5

Notable track: 2112: Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx / Discovery / Presentation / Oracle / Soliloquy / Grand Finale

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Notable tracks: Darlington County, Downbound Train, I’m On Fire, Dancing In the Dark, Born in the U.S.A.

Nixon

Lambchop

4/5

Notable tracks: Basically all of it

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Notable track: For Heaven’s Sake

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Notable tracks: Maybe Baby, Not Fade Away

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Notable tracks: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, Rock with You

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Notable track: Blueberry Hill

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Notable tracks: I Believe It, Lord Can You Hear Me

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Notable tracks: The Book I Read, Pulled Up, Psycho Killer

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Notable tracks: I Feel the Earth Move, It’s Too Late, Home Again, Beautiful, You’ve Got a Friend, So Far Away, Where You Lead

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Notable tracks: Planet Rock, Looking for the Perfect Beat

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

Notable tracks: Misguided Angel, Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis), I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Dreaming My Dreams With You, Working On A Building, Sweet Jane

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Notable tracks: Walk of Life, Money for Nothing, Brothers in Arms

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Notable tracks: Like a Prayer, Love Song, Promise to Try, Dear Jessie, Oh Father, Act of Contrition

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Notable track: Kerosene

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Notable tracks: A Design for Life, Kevin Carter, Everything Must Go, The Girl Who Wanted to Be God, Australia, Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning), No Surface All Feeling

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Notable tracks: Till There Was You, You Really Got A Hold On Me

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Notable Tracks: The Light, The Questions

1999

Prince

4/5

Notable tracks: 1999, Let’s Pretend We’re Married, D.M.S.R., Automatic, All The Critics Love U In New York, International Lover

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Notable tracks: Cry to Me, Can't Nobody Love You

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Notable Tracks: Dance or Die, Faster, Tightrope, Oh Maker, Neon Valley Street, Wondaland, Say You’ll Go, BaBopByeYa

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Notable tracks: Shame On a Nuh, Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta F’ Wit, C.R.E.A.M., Protect Ya Neck

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Notable tracks: Blackstar, I Can’t Give Everything Away

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

Notable tracks: Touch Me I’m Sick, Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More, Chain That Door, If I Think, You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Notable track: Green Onions

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Notable tracks: Wheels of Confusion / The Straightener, Supernaut, Cornucopia

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Notable tracks: Marquee Moon, Guiding Light, Torn Curtain, See No Evil, Venus, Friction

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Notable tracks: This Is the Day, Uncertain Smile

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

Notable tracks: (Well) Dusted, X-Tra Wide, Temptation of Egg, Satellite

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Notable tracks: Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man, Free Bird, Gimme Three Steps

Gorillaz

4/5

Notable tracks: most of it.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Notable track: Around the World

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Notable tracks: Alone Again Or, A House Is Not a Motel, Old Man, The Good Humour Man He Sees Everything

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Notable tracks: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Cloudbusting, And Dream Of Sheep, Under Ice, Jig Of Life, Hello Earth

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

Notable tracks: Live Fast Die Young, World up My Ass, Deny Everything, Don’t Care

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Notable tracks: Bring The Noise, Rebel Without A Pause

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Notable track: Trans-Europe Express

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Notable tracks: I Bleed, Dead, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Crackity Jones, Hey, Here Comes Your Man

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Notable tracks: The Look of Love Pt.1, Poison Arrow, All Of My Heart

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Notable tracks: Fuck and Run, Never Said, Glory

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Notable track: Gin and Juice

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Notable tracks: Wouldn’t It Be Nice, Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder), I’m Waiting For The Day, God Only Knows, Caroline No

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Notable tracks: Cranes in the Sky, Mad (feat. Lil Wayne

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

Notable tracks: Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man, Don Aman, Washer, Good Morning Captain

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Notable tracks: Tom Sawyer, Limelight

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Notable tracks: Ready to Start, Empty Room, Suburban War, We Used To Wait, Sprawl I (Flatland), The Suburbs

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Notable tracks: Detroit Rock City, Great Expectations, Shout It Out Loud

Pretenders

3/5

Notable tracks: The Wait, Kid, Brass in Pocket, Mystery Achievement

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Notable tracks: Hard To Handle, She Talks To Angels, Twice As Hard, Jealous Again, Stare It Cold

Blur

3/5

Notable tracks: Beetlebum, Song 2, Strange News from Another Star

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

Notable tracks: Isolation, Love

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

1/5

Fred Neil

4/5

Notable tracks: Everybody’s Talkin’, The Dolphins, Sweet Cocaine, That’s The Bag I’m In, Ba-Di-Da

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Notable tracks: (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Chain of Fools, Niki Hoeky, Come Back Baby, Ain’t No Way

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Notable tracks: NY State of Mind, The World is Yours, It Ain’t Hard to Tell

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Notable tracks: Hanging Out and Hung Up On the Line, If You Loved Me at All

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Notable tracks: The One You Love, Peach Trees, The Art Teacher, Memphis Skyline

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

Notable tracks: Television The Drug Of The Nation, Music And Politics, Satanic Reverses, Language of Violence LP Mix

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Notable tracks: Self Esteem, Genocide, Something to Believe In, Come Out and Play, So Alone

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Notable tracks: Smooth Criminal, Bad, Man in the Mirror, Dirty Diana, The Way You Make Me Feel, I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Leave Me Alone

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Notable tracks: 13 Steps Lead Down, You Tripped at Every Step, London's Brilliant Parade

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

Notable tracks: Dirge, Aisha

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Notable tracks: Basically all. Maps is iconic

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Notable track: Stormy Monday

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Didn't really like this one unfortunately. Two notable tracks though: The Weight, Chest Fever

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Notable tracks: Felicidade, Tantos Desejos, Voce Gosta, Na Neblina, Antropofagos

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

I usually like weird psychedelic music, but this was too much even for me 😂

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

This album was right up my alley, I loooove all of the psychedelic weirdness. Notable tracks: all of it

Guero

Beck

4/5

Another win from Beck

Black Sabbath

4/5

Notable track: Black Sabbath

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Elton John piano = instant happy signals to the brain. :-) Favorite track: Sweet Painted Lady or Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

I really liked the latter half! The vocals are amazing throughout, but it’s r&b after all :-) Favorite track: Monsters

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

This one sent me back to when my mom made me listen to this album in her car and I was forever changed lol. Favorite track: Paradise By the Dashboard Light

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Suicide

2/5

It had some nice psychedelic sounds in it but it left me feeling deeply unsettled and not in a way that was enjoyable 😅

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Anyway here’s Wonderwall <3

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

Hearing the introductions and small speeches was really like looking into a Time Capsule! But I’m not well versed enough in jazz for any of the tracks to stand out to me :-(

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Very chill :-) Reminds me of growing up and watching my parents drink wine outside

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Definitely not my thing

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Give me alchemy. Give me sorcery. Give me wizardry. Thermatology! Electricity! I master five magics!!!

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Prince is just soooo fun and I had a blast with this one. Favorite track: It

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

I was just so captivated by the whole thing from front to back, it’s such a raw and vulnerable album. Favorite track: California

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Classic sound, made me miss Paris a lot. :,) Favorite track: Le plat plays

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

I love you The Cure :) Favorite track: A Forest

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Sea shanties were not what I expected but greatly appreciated. Favorite track: Brown Eyes

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Not my thing, but still had a good time with it! Favorite track: Lightspan Soundwave

The Band

4/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

It’s a classic obviously! Favorite track: Spaghetti Junction

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Psychedelic rock me likey

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

More psychedelic dad rock, that’s a solid 4 baby!

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Made me cry multiple times. Four stars.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

I love concept albums <3

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Listening to this made me feel like I was going to Neon Heaven.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

It’s Talking Heads, I was bound to like it :-) Favorite track: Once in a Lifetime

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

A true shock from the Bob Dylan hater

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs always get a good rating from me. Favorite track: Dragon Queen

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Fun jazz, what's not to like! Favorite track: In a Silent Way

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

This album was so fucking crazy, honestly one of the concept album kings. I danced, I cried, I got scared, 5/5. Favorite track: Ruiner

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Kinda generic but I still enjoyed it. Favorite track: This Year's Love

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

Favorite track: Rhyme for the Summertime

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Another win for socks in sandals (and grilling burgers). Favorite track: Streets on Fire

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

1001 albums to have sex to. Favorite track: Caravan

The xx

3/5

Violent Femmes

3/5

Big hands, I know you’re the one ❤️

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

4/5

Psychedelic rock, I love you

Queen II

Queen

4/5

It’s Queen so yeah.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

That sucked I won’t lie

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Jazz is good

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

Not my cup of tea 🤷‍♀️

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

I mean, it’s a modern classic

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Pretty good, but the songs were a bit long for my taste and sounded pretty similar

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

It’s Steely Dan!

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

This album sounds like my childhood to me

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Super fun!

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Super classic stuff, I just always find myself going back to the live performances of these songs (especially My Generation). They have such an energy to them that doesn’t translate as well in the studio recordings. At least that’s my preference!

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Whoever said this was K-Mart music, I couldn’t unhear it lol

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Traffic

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

It has so much shock value that it isn't even enjoyable. I think you can feasibly make art about just about anything, especially controversial and "dark" topics--but I really struggle to understand the message that The Marshall Mathers LP is trying to convey. Is there a message at all, or is the shock value the point? I really tried to give this one a fair shake, but in a social culture where misogynistic ideals are coming back in vogue in certain parts of America, I found this one extremely hard to listen to.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

The College Dropout