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Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile In Guyville Liz Phair	5	3.02	+1.98

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	1	3.74	-2.74
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.46	-2.46
Dry PJ Harvey	1	3.23	-2.23
Hypnotised The Undertones	1	3.07	-2.07
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch	1	3	-2
Heavy Weather Weather Report	1	2.98	-1.98
Ingenue k.d. lang	1	2.94	-1.94
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.85	-1.85
Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer	1	2.8	-1.8
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.79	-1.79

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Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

5/5

A classic. The perfect indie rock guitar album. Amazing lyrics and guitar tones.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Found this record to be plodding and monotonous. Not for me.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Still can't understand anything Liz is singing, but mostly I enjoy all the Cocteau Twins have released. I do find the all the guitars (and everything else that isn't the bass) excessively bright, but I can get past it.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Vocals on The Fall records are not polished, but this was worse than usual.

Van Halen

2/5

I'm not a fan of hair/spandex rock and I'm especially uninterested in anything by Van Halen.

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Not something I'd put on in my free time, but super interesting. Sort of like if Kraftwerk were into jazz.

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Some pop is too quirky for me, and this is that kind of pop.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Songs feel kind of underwritten to me?

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Songwriting powerhouse. Mostly enjoyed it.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

Really enjoy McCartney's bass playing, but the songs on this record, well, bore me. I'm okay with "Band on the Run" and "Jet," but the rest just recedes into the background for me (with the possible exception of the more upbeat "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five").

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

It just all sounds the same to me. His voice isn't particularly great and the cliched vocals are annoying. Some pretty good guitar playing, though.

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Enjoyed this record quite a bit. Some of it reminded me of something that would result from crossing Public Image Limited with Pink Floyd.

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

I enjoy the Radiohead albums that are more melodically inclined, but I rarely skip over their music.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

I could listen to Joplin listen to just about anything and enjoy it, I figure.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Pretenders

2/5

It's OK. Not a fan of the guitar tone: sounds like they have their chorus cranked to 11. I know this band is a seminal new wave group, but it's just not for me.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

1/5

These are clearly incredibly talented musicians. Still sounds like muzak/hold music to me. I want to like this; I do not like this.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

cons: saxophone bass tone is awful pros: memorable melodies good songwriting

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

meh. A more aggressive and less clever Sloan?

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

I'm giving it 3 stars, but it's more like 2.5 for me. There's nothing to hum coming away from this, and there's only so much plinky synth I can handle.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Sort of neat blend of latin and electronic styles, but not my thing. If it were, I'd probably be voting this way higher. If I could avoid voting at all, I would.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

1/5

Polly Jean Harvey cannot hit notes. I like the idea of PJ Harvey, but I can't stand the singing. Nothing hummable. Where are the melodies?

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

1/5

Sort of like The Jimi Hendrix experience without any of the hooks.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

1/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

1/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

This is...really eclectic. It's just all over the map in terms of genre and tone. For the right person that is going to be amazing! Every song is like listening to a new band! I am not that person.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

This will be amazing art pop for people into stuff that Kate Bush excels at. I am not those people.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

I'm not sure I've ever listened to this record from start to finish (though I recognize just about every song on it). A gem of an indie rock album that is chockablock with awesome tracks. I don't think it's quite a 4 star for me, but I'm giving it that because 3.75 is not an option.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

As much as I like the idea of Nick Cave, I've just never been into his music.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

I love so much of Brian Eno's work. But I don't love this. At all. I know this is considered one of his most important works, but I just can't get into it. It's jagged and anxiety inducing.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

1/5

No thanks.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Love Radiohead, but not this album

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