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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sex Packets	5	2.67	+2.33
Teenager Of The Year	5	2.99	+2.01
Here Are the Sonics	5	3.16	+1.84
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector	5	3.28	+1.72
Figure 8	5	3.32	+1.68
Raw Power	5	3.32	+1.68
Red Headed Stranger	5	3.35	+1.65
Third	4	2.43	+1.57
Violent Femmes	5	3.5	+1.5
The Wildest!	5	3.54	+1.46

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Garbage	1	3.38	-2.38
Heroes	2	3.61	-1.61
Brothers	2	3.58	-1.58
Different Class	2	3.42	-1.42
Rubber Soul	3	4.13	-1.13
Everything Must Go	2	3.11	-1.11
Heartbreaker	2	3.03	-1.03
The Man Who	2	3.01	-1.01

5-Star Albums (14)

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Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

I'd rather be listening to Etta James or Chuck Berry.

Blur

3/5

Oh hey its that gorillaz guy

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

By far the best album to feature a hippie on a stationary bike. Listening to it again I think little me was much more interested in side B than side A.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

I'm still finishing up Cosmo's Factory as I write this. I'm about to dive into Figure 8, but I am writing this and giving it 5 stars before I even start. Curious to see how I feel about the rating in the near future.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

I wish everybody could sing like Willie

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Might be the perfect album.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

I made it to the fifth track, and it is boring. I'm out.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

I thought I would like it more than I did.

Garbage

1/5

I got a few songs in and bailed. It just sounded terrible. Crazy that probably my favorite sounding album (Siamese Dream) was also produced by Butch VIg. 1 Star because hey why not.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Two songs from this record were on at least one of the mixtapes made me when I was small. The rest is fine to good. Nice to expand my Elvis Costello experience.

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

1. Keith Morris 2. Chavo 3. Henry 4. Dez (I think Henry is actually the worst Black Flag singer, but for me his non-musical contributions to the band put him over Dez.)

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Listened up until "Common People".

Violent Femmes

5/5

An album of hits. What else can you say?

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

The hits are undeniable. The rest is fine. Fun 80's pop. Cyndi's singing alone makes my heart want to give it a four but my by brain is in control right now.

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Coincidentally, YT music has been pushing "Heroes" (the single) to me a lot lately. If it weren't for the fact that I performed "The Secret Life Of Arabia on keys with a group Wilton James put together for a few Bowie tribute shows back when the man kicked the bucket, I would probably describe this album as "the single and a bunch of forgettable stuff".

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

It was fine.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

No shade on Radiohead, but I'm a few tracks in and I want to hear something new. Ok wait as I typed the above the drop to "Sit Down. Stand Up." Just dropped. Ok I've heard "Sail To the Moon" before. Let's See what Ryan Adams has for me.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

Started strong but quickly became boring. Let's go, Willie

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

The sound of driving down the highway in a car with hand crank windows rolled down. The falsetto screaming around track three got my attention in a bad way.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Once again I wish everybody could sing like Willie

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

I'm not even gonna start it. I've listened to it a million times.

Elvis Presley

4/5

Young Elvis rocks. Long live the 30 minute album

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Forgot about the jams.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

The sound of 1958, and the cover to match

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Phil Spector's ultimate heat check, "Silent Night". I really have nothing intelligent to say about it, I just want to note my awe at it's inclusion on this album.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Sounds like 2000.

Dire Straits

3/5

Kenya

Machito

3/5

I think it was fine. I'm not sure. Latin Jazz I think?

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

I need to know more about this album.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

5/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Skimmed it. Lame. "Why Does It Always Rain On Me" is the hit

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Just how I thought it would sound

System Of A Down

3/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

Kinda like MGMT but boring

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

I kinda thought I liked this band. Turned out they are boring as hell

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Surprised by this one. Other Bowie records I've tried have mostly felt like "the hits and a bunch of other shit". Reminded me of Teenager of the Year somehow. Similar synth sounds maybe.

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

First two tracks had me thinking I was going to love the whole album

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

I appreciated the fact that they didn't try to stretch ideas into songs all the time. the hits hit, though

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Not really my thing, but seems competent for what it is

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Some interesting moments production-wise, but I think the most important thing I realized is that one reason I've never really had much interest in Joni Mitchell is because her melodies are so damned boring.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Unbelievably boring. Why do I know this bands name?

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Should listen to it again but I am rating it from memory because I've heard it plenty

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

5/5

I need to come back to this, but I think maybe I can't rate the Sonics record I just listened to before I do this. Giving it five stars because of five year old karaoke me doing this song.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

5/5

Five white dudes in 1965 making garage rock. A sax and a piano show up. Kinda want to do a cover of "Psycho." Grew on me as it went on. Thankful the version I found was just the album, and not a re-release with a bunch of bullshit added on because time no longer exists. Five stars because why the hell not