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Album	You	Global	Diff
What's That Noise? Coldcut	5	2.78	+2.22
Gris Gris Dr. John	5	2.88	+2.12
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	5	3.03	+1.97
Tank Battles Dagmar Krause	4	2.13	+1.87
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.38	+1.62
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.46	+1.54
Suicide Suicide	4	2.47	+1.53
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38
Like Water For Chocolate Common	4	2.95	+1.05
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Loretta Lynn	4	2.97	+1.03

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Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause · 2 likes

4/5

The theater kid in me loved this, 10/10 would audition for

Ray Of Light

Madonna · 1 likes

4/5

It feels too easy to say that Madonna makes music for the girls, gays, and theys, but that doesn’t make it less true. I wish I had been in a dark room with a sparkly top to get the full experience

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Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Overall enjoyed. Highlights were definitely I Zimbra and Mind. Didn’t love Air and Heaven but can’t put my finger on why.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Coming in hot w the first two tracks, really liked them, the outro on Novacane is the most 90s thing I’ve ever heard. Definitely can see what the apple music summary was saying about the pastiche of styles. And then High 5 is such a vibe shift. Really, the jump from High 5 to Ramshackle to Computer Rock is crazy. Nice parallel between Computer Rock and the Novacane outro tho.

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

First half: damn this 70s punk is significantly more chill than I expected Back half: jk, found the punk

Play

Moby

4/5

Some notes: South Side: nostalgia hits as hard as I thought it would (loved this song as a kid for some reason) Bodyrock: not loving the ~hip hop~ Natural Blues: loving this one (could absolutely see this being a Flume sample lol) Overall liked it more than I thought I would

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

I feel like I’m not giving the album a fair shake, but there is just something about this genre of fuzzy, amorphous guitar+bass that makes me super anxious. Listening to The Sprawl on the drive home was an actively bad experience. The more structured songs were easier to listen to, but once they dissolved into miscellaneous sounds it would trigger the stress part of my brain again.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Liked disc 2 more than disc 1 (with the major exception of Tales of a Scorched Earth), though the sound felt very similar the whole way through. Really what that means is that I preferred the last run of songs that chilled all the way out and became significantly less ~rock. Overall good though? Just not really my style.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Listen, I just like Arcade Fire.

Suicide

4/5

Something about this really did it for me. Perfect length for me to enjoy before it got annoying. Hard carry from Frankie Teardrop.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

5/5

brb, moving to the bayou with Dr. John

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

5/5

Really wish I could have listened to this on vinyl. I think in order to get the full effect of the four distinct sections you need the physical action of flipping a disc to transition from one to the next. That said, I love some ambitious, high concept nonsense and this was a lot of fun.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Band On The Run sounds a lot better when it’s not just in the background of a grocery store. Came into the album fairly prejudiced against it and was pleasantly surprised. Not sure how I feel about Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five repeating the outro of Band On The Run, almost felt kind of tacked on. Favorite song was definitely Mrs. Vandebilt.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

The jump scare of getting to Maps and being like wait, I know this one!

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

I never like 90s hip hop as much as I think I should… I guess the old head life just isn’t for me. This’ll probably grow on me if I listen to it more, though

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

5/5

Wall to wall bangers. You could have told me that No Connection was on RENAISSANCE and I would have believed you. Favorite track was definitely Stop This Crazy Thing

Parklife

Blur

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Lovely, intimate recording. Another one for this list of things that I’d love to listen to on vinyl

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Another lovely live album

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Definitely one of the albums of all time

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Had a lovely time listening, the biggest “cozy yet productive Sunday afternoon” energy for me

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

As far as Christmas albums go, this is a good one, but that doesn’t negate the fact that it’s a Christmas album

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

I can respect the vision, but that doesn’t mean I like the vision

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

It feels too easy to say that Madonna makes music for the girls, gays, and theys, but that doesn’t make it less true. I wish I had been in a dark room with a sparkly top to get the full experience

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

It’s been a long time since I just sat down and listened to this album straight through and it still hits as hard as it did a decade ago

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Very inconsistent album, any time I felt like I was starting to get into it, there would be a moment that pulled me out.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

4/5

The theater kid in me loved this, 10/10 would audition for

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Probably would have changed my brain chemistry if I had listened to this album at 16

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Not even a Swifty but I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard this album

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Feels sacrilegious to say but I could have done with fewer guitar solos

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Was just kinda underwhelmed?

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Started out not really vibing with it, but the back half of the album grew on me

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Weird funky little vibe

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

4/5

Kinda loved it

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

I mean yeah, definitely was a Simon & Garfunkel album. Felt very weird to have a Bookend Theme in the middle of the album and not ~bookending~ it.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Fun time, nothing crazy

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

First half of the album I was like “wow this sounds like Alt Rock Radio Station TM” and then I got to Come Out and Play and Self Esteem and it all made sense. Still a fun time.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Was fine, might have liked it more if I engaged with the lyrics more

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

The curse of old jazz recordings that have become canonized as “the best” is that they end up played to death in hotel lobbies. I wish I had a better ear for jazz so that I could appreciate it more, but as it is it just sounds like check in at a Hilton

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

I can see this album being transformative for someone, that someone just isn’t me. I appreciate the drama in the lyrics and music, but the warbling indulgence sometimes just didn’t work for me.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Wow I don’t like Elvis Costello’s voice. For the most part a perfectly fine album

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Kat Stratford type beat <3

1999

Prince

4/5

Strong start, kinda started to lose me towards the end?