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Album	You	Global	Diff
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.28	+1.72
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.42	+1.58
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.71	+1.29
Ys Joanna Newsom	4	2.8	+1.2
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	5	3.92	+1.08
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	5	3.97	+1.03
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Purple Rain Prince	1	4.02	-3.02
Remain In Light Talking Heads	1	3.67	-2.67
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	1	3.61	-2.61
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.48	-2.48
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	1	3.37	-2.37
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	1	3.33	-2.33
All Mod Cons The Jam	1	3.25	-2.25
Darklands The Jesus And Mary Chain	1	3.23	-2.23
Closer Joy Division	1	3.22	-2.22
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	1	3.12	-2.12

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Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Love me some White Stripes!

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

1/5

I thought I liked Prince music & 80's music, but I am actually surprised how much I disliked this album! Couldn't wait for it to end. I think it's all the synth that's driving me crazy. :(

S&M

Metallica

5/5

Friday 10:27AM: @ work... Three songs in... Master of Puppets... Popped the 2nd earbud in & ready to score this a 5 star & KICK! TODAY'S! ASS!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 11:45AM: Holy shit this album is 2+Hrs. long - F*ck Yeah!!! Still kicking ass @ Wherever I May Roam! If this album doesn't get you amped up check your pulse, you may have died. ☠💀☠

The Score

Fugees

4/5

The beats, rhythms, & grooves of this album are great. Not something I could listen to everyday, but it's got my respect for sure! Corny, but I also enjoy the speaking tracks & crackling record effects sprinkled in. Classic throw back album for my generation. I'm curious how younger generations would grade this album. Had I not grown up to this, I'm not sure I could grade it as high as I did.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

So... This must have been #1001.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

I'm a huge fan of The White Stripes & Jack White. This is a good album, but not my favorite from them. This is a little too light & airy. I enjoy their later albums that are heavier & more aggressive. However, It's fun to go back & hear the older albums & listen to the growth of the group.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Classic! God Father's of Rock & Roll. Their first album & it's terrific from start to finish. It's almost to short though... the album was over before I knew it.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Meh... Radiohead is very hit or miss with me. I believe I'm more of a mainstream Radiohead fan & this album doesn't have any of their mainstream hits on it. I'm sure die hard RadioHeadies love this sort of album, but for me, it's a Meh.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

1/5

Similar to Prince & Purple Rain... I think I like David Bowie music, but this album was just not it for me.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

1/5

Ok, not the worst album I've hear on this list, but it's close LOL. Seriously these lyrics are laughable! Maybe this was impressive in 1980, but now it sounds like something you could generate with Ai. Not good.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

3 Stars - Pretty good considering the album's I've heard lately on this list. Not my genre of choice, but getting better! Can't lie... "We got the beat" is a classic good tune!

Throwing Muses

4/5

I'm not sure I'm rating the correct album, when I searched Throwing Muses (The Album) on Spotify it says it was released in 2003. Oh well... So, I had to listen to this twice. First time it was just a bunch of noise, but after hearing it a second time it's actually really good! Alt-Rock with a strong note of Grunge if you ask me. Pretty good stuff!

Foo Fighters

4/5

Immediate gratification with This is a call. Followed right up with I'll stick around. Damn, I forgot just how good these guys are! The end of the Album is less mainstream & a little forgotten about, but overall, GREAT ALBUM! I'm very biased considering 90's Seattle grunge has got to be my all time favorite genre of music.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

It's a really, really good Christmas album, but it's a Christmas album for crying out loud!

Infected

The The

3/5

Pretty good album. Off beat, but catchy.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

suc le blu... No thanks. #IgnorantAmericanHere

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

An iconic, artistic album. I was introduced to this album back in art school (2003) after listening to The Dandy Warhol's & finding out The Velvet Underground was a large influence. I'm sure I thought it was amazing back then, but now I can only appreciate about half this album. In fact, I skipped forward a lot when the distorted guitar rifts got too obnoxiously long & over done. Still some really good tunes on this album.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Total mood album... pretty good stuff.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Absolutely love The Beatles. Their early stuff is not my favorite, but still some good tracks. Only a 30+ minute listen.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

One hit wonder with a bunch of unsa, unsa, unsa beats.

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Better then the last Bowie album from this list. Heroes is a great single & there are a couple others on this album that keep you engaged. It petered out at the end.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Now this is the Radiohead I know! Great Album!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

This album is awesome. The idea alone is incredible. Johnny Cash is awesome.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

I don't know a single one of these songs, but damn this is good music!

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

I want to give this 2.5 stars... Better then I was expecting. Vibes like a 1990's album, but released in 2015.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

Meh... Just a bunch of noise to me.

The xx

2/5

Not bad. Not Great.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

No thank you.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Good piano playing , but this just turns into background noise for me.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Maybe I'm over scoring this one based on numerous duds in a row, but good album. plenty of fun songs worth listening to.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

I didn't know Cash did multiple jail recordings. Not as good as Folsom, but still really good stuff!

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Really good album. No idea how good A Tribe Called Quest is! I listened to a bunch of their stuff after hearing this album. Noddin & bobbin my head through this entire album.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

I think I like their stuff better on studio recorded albums.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Back to back Who albums & this one was a studio recorded one. Just as I thought, I enjoyed this one more then the Live album.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Good album. First time listened form start to finish. Lots of good, known songs on this one. And the not-so-know stuff is fun to listen to as well.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

2/5

Not terrible, but nothing I'd listen to again.

High Violet

The National

2/5

Couldn't get into this. Very melancholy & turned into background noise very quickly.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

RIP Bowie, but I did not care for this very much. I almost gave up on this album completely until track 8: I'd Rather Be High. That & a couple more towards the end were OK. -----Side Note: I'm 40 albums into this experiment & only have 9 albums @ 4 or 5 stars. So, less then 25%... I don't know how many more bad albums I can handle before I give up on this. 😫😫😫

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Sunshine Superman & Season of the Witch completely carry this album, the rest is decent listening too.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

1/5

Got through 3 songs & quit.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

WTF

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Not my every day style of music, but this is really good stuff.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Got to respect it. It was good, but not amazing.

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Awesome album.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Pretty good actually.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

I actually was expecting better. Only a couple good songs on this album, the rest was meh at best.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

I thought it would have more known songs on it. Still good, but very short album!

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

1/5

You can only listen to so much Celtic Punk & typically it has to be closer to St. Patty's Day. 🙃

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Early 90's Alt Rock at it's best... not that great in 2024. 😆 Still giving it 2 stars as it's better then a lot of the crap on this list.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Not bad... wasn't anything revolutionary.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

1/5

Not my jam.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Great album.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Absolutely amazing album!

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Great Album! Almost every song on it is a hit!

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Really good Album.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Not terrible, but no thanks. Classic "How is this a top 1001?" Album.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Meh. I didn't get through this album.

Joanna Newsom

4/5

Couldn't find this on Spotify so forced me to listen on Youtube. I started reading the comments & got intrigued. Impressive that this was released in 2006 by a 24 YO. Very unique sound & style for the time. Each song blends into one another, so not very dynamic there, but overall a good listen if you want to hear something different.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great album. I'm not even a huge Stones fan, but this is a really easy album to get into.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Pretty good for new noise...

Closer

Joy Division

1/5

I stopped listening at track 3... woof