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Album	You	Global	Diff
Back to Basics Christina Aguilera	5	2.75	+2.25
Soul Mining The The	5	3.17	+1.83
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	5	3.26	+1.74
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	5	3.29	+1.71
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Synchronicity The Police	5	3.42	+1.58
Guero Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.49	+1.51
That's The Way Of The World Earth, Wind & Fire	5	3.5	+1.5
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	5	3.56	+1.44

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
OK Computer Radiohead	1	4.1	-3.1
Elephant The White Stripes	1	3.86	-2.86
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	1	3.61	-2.61
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.47	-2.47
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	1	3.37	-2.37
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	1	3.35	-2.35
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.33	-2.33
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	1	3.2	-2.2
The Real Thing Faith No More	1	3.2	-2.2
Marcus Garvey Burning Spear	1	3.19	-2.19

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Leonard Cohen	2	1

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Beck	5, 2

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The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

This is a good one. I know it from many morning car trips to middle school about ten years ago

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Night Train has such a deep groove! Love the screaming girls losing their minds.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

I tried one track. Not my lane.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Listened to Phantom of the Opera. Very fast, frenetic guitar, with vocals doubling the guitar part. This would be a good soundtrack song for someone in an action movie desperately trying to break out of the ropes tying their hands together behind a chair, then escaping and running to safety.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Yep. Great. I recognized all of the tunes. This must have been one of the albums featured in my jazz history class at UCLA.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Yeah. So good. Shining Star? That’s a song for all times.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Hey You. Comfortably Numb. Another Brick in the Wall. Everyone has heard this album start to finish. Not me.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

The mistress of the minor key! She must be an influence to Phoebe Bridgers

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Yeah. Iconic. 1968. Blackbird. Back in the USSR. And on.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Ruben Blades I knew, but not Willie Colon. A fab mix of Brazilian jazz plus disco.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

2019. A female rapper I hadn’t previously encountered. I listened to Wounds and Venom. I’d put her above Minaj and Azalea easily. She reminds me of a young Downtown Julie Brown.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Sure. Take the A Train. Can’t go wrong with this any day of the week.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Energetic 70s female rock and soul. I like it!

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

Fun 80s Australian band I had never heard of. Kinda U2 plus Talking Heads plus Plimsouls?

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

80s alt rock from former lead singer of the Pixies. Nice discovery.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Love song is an instantly recognizable classic that I had forgotten about. Thanks 1001albumsgenerator.com

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Fun. I know the Kinks sound, but none of these songs. Picture Book is a good one.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Yeah, I just don’t love Leonard Cohen. Sorry.

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

The zithery thing is very Yes. Can’t dance to it. Maybe this would be good music for fertilizing the garden out in the rain?

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

Fine. I bet they would draw a crowd at The Fox.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Fun! Prove my Love is straight up pop, per the liner notes. It sounds a whole lot like The Beatles to me.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Way to go, Darlene Love.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Liked it. Good features. Good lo-fi sound.

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

From the liner notes: Fusing the layered sound of ’90s shoegaze, the passions of ’50s doo-wop, Rolling Stones-style ballads, and just a touch of lullaby, the Baltimore duo forge a style that’s beautiful but tough, mysterious but open. 90s shoegaze?

Repeater

Fugazi

2/5

Sort of a screamy Beastie Boys 90s meets the Cure - the sound of post-hardcore - per the liner notes

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Nice. Jazz standards.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Yeah, good tunes, but I’ll take Little Richard singing them over Jerry Lee Lewis any day.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Maybe an influence to Sheryl Crow? I like the simple guitar and vocals well enough.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

5/5

So many bangers. Yay for 80s hair bands.

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

If you combine the best sounds from They Might Be Giants, The Smiths, a little REM, a little DEVO, and maybe a little The Human League, you’d end up with this great 99s sound. Yes Yes for The The.

Guero

Beck

5/5

Fab. Would listen to the whole thing again. Enjoyed it very much while in Key Largo

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Fine. I don’t happen to live Knopfler’s voice, but Money for Nothing sure captures a moment in time with early MTV.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Bowie. Automatic five stars. Memories with camp friends.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

Beyoncé. Nice. I hadn’t heard any of these tracks.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Classic! Lots of familiar tracks.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

1/5

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain is lovely, but Nelson just isn’t my cup of tea. Not sure what part of my life a Willie Nelson song could be useful for.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Classic. I’ve listened to this album a thousand times.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

I knew 2011’s Summertime Sadness, but nothing from this album. Similar sound to track mentioned.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

Yep. It’s smoke. Good blues album.

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Good. I’m guessing she influenced Olivia Rodrigo. I really liked her first album.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Glad to be exposed to all these genres from this website. I knew Stir it Up. I’m not able to appreciate reggae all that much - I don’t think I’m the target audience.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

More 90s alt music I missed. Nirvana type sound, like Come Out and Play (Keep em Separated)

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Lovely. Lots to learn from this singer.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Classic. Would listen another 100 times

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Yup. I know every track.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Fun to hear so many Queen songs that I didn’t know about.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

1971. That would have been awesome to experience

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Another Belle and Sebastian?

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

1990 The Humpty Dance. I’m sure this album played at many a fraternity party

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

Songs I’d expect to hear on the Shrinking soundtrack- that’s not a bad thing.

Common

2/5

Fine. Sounds like Common.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Couldn’t find this album on iTunes but I listened to her Essentials. Lots of well-known songs.

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

5/5

Couldn’t find this album on iTunes but I listened to her Essentials. Lots of well-known songs.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

90s alternative music with acoustic and electric guitar and not all that interesting vocals.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Superlative

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Woof. Noisy.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Fine. Alternative early 2000s. Cave has a sort of Lou Reed + Psychedelic Furs voice.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

1970. Maybe I’m Amazed is the only track I know, but just for that song:

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

Fine. Alternative early 2000s. Cave has a sort of Lou Reed + Psychedelic Furs voice.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Kinda like Cold Play

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Classics!

1999

Prince

5/5

Yep. Is there a rating higher than five stars?

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

How fun. Like 70s schmaltzy James Bond.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

4/5

Fun. 1986 Hip hop. Work it.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Ooh. This is going to be a winner for running around the neighborhood.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Smiths. Unmistakably specific sound, like in Unhappy Birthday.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Takes me right back to Beale Street in Memphis. Mannish Boy is great.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

1/5

Not on Apple Music

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

I have never been a Joni Mitchell listener. Didn’t know any of these songs. Nice voice tho.

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Hilarious. Covers of 70s songs, like the Stones’s Jumping Jack Flash, with sitar and Indian instruments.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

Fine. I thought I’d like it more than I did.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Wouldn’t it be nice. God only knows. Classic.

Germs

1/5

Sounds like the Sex Pistols. Exhausting.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Not Chicago. Not really digging the frenetic upper range electric keyboard.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1/5

Not my thing. It’s like campfire smoke.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

1/5

CREAM works. The rest? Not great

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Classic. Not totally my thing, but several very well known songs

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Didn’t love it. Least favorite Beck album.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Fine. One big hit song.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Great remake of Can’t Take my Eyes off of You

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Short album. Definitely need to be in the mood for it, but I liked it. Sounded kinda familiar.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

War pigs, Paranoid, Iron Man. Good weightlifting music

OK Computer

Radiohead

1/5

Highly acclaimed, but not for me. Guess I was in the mood for uptempo music, and this isn’t it.

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Total Duran Duran copycat. Wow. Liked it though.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Yeah. Such a five star!

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Peg!

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

1971 country music.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Fun rock album. That’s a hard working guitar player.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Some nice tunes.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Fun, but a little mellow for a jog! Let the good times roll, Coconut, Without You

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Piece of my Heart (Janis Joplin) is such a classic

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Bonita Applebaum, Can I Kick It.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

I Can See for Miles is a great track. The end.

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Sonically robust. Kinda Devo plus Depeche Mode

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

2/5

About as trippy as you’d expect - planetarium show music plus a little more energy

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Excellent fraternity party music.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

1979 - one of those songs I can never remember.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Classic and totally recognizable in one note type of rock - Limelight, Tom Sawyer

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Very 90s techno-sounding, early MTV sounding British synth pop.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Energetic. Lots of good tracks

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

70s funk. I only knew the title track, and it’s the best one by a wide margin. Wished I liked it more.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

2/5

Fine. I wouldn’t listen twice.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

1/5

Jim Morrison Doors sound-alike, but more under water

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

A treasure. Loved it.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Liked it a lot!

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Yeah, I mean. I didn’t have to listen to this today to know every track.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

1/5

Kinda screamy for me.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

2/5

2008 solo project outside of ATCQ

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Reasonable. Better than what I thought, based on the album cover.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Sunshine of your Love and Strange Brew are bangers.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

‘78 Marin County Fair sound. Boys are Back in Town.

I Against I

Bad Brains

1/5

Oof. Too frenetic for me today.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

1/5

Exhilarating in a Dead Kennedys way.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

Nice.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

The start of heavy metal! Smoke on the Water. Other good tracks, too.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Nice Hammond Organ

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

David Bowie wannabe. Did not like.

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Too aggressive

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

1/5

Too soupy waah waaah with the guitar

2112

Rush

2/5

Hadn’t heard of any of these tracks, but I didn’t hate it!

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

He’s so fun

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

Didn’t love it. I bet she was an influence for Fiona Apple

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Black Dog! Stairway!

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

It’s the iconic electronic 80s, black eyelinered group

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

2001 British female rap reggae. Interesting

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

2004. Kinda orchestral

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

1996 19-yr-old artist. Good on her. Piano and vocals

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Pretty fun!

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

A little too tango and repeating electronic beats - kinda monotonous

Wild Gift

1/5

1981 alternative rock

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Want you to want me is energetic and fun

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

1979 Goth Rock. Monotone echo-type lead vocals. I tried.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Me and Bobby McGee - that terrific sandpaper voice.

Pretenders

4/5

1979 - their first album. Straight ahead club rock with simple guitar, drums, bass, vocals - Brass in Pocket, the only song with an asterisk, is one of the mellowist. Mystery Achievement is a fun one.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

2008 alternative - quiet female voice, kind of tinkling little melodies.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

2004 electronic music - no vocals. Fine, but when would I listen to this?

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Son of a Preacher man is the only ringer