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Album	You	Global	Diff
Like Water For Chocolate Common	5	2.95	+2.05
Spiderland Slint	5	2.98	+2.02
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
Aja Steely Dan	5	3.47	+1.53
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.47	+1.53
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.53	+1.47
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	1	3.63	-2.63
Disraeli Gears Cream	1	3.47	-2.47
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	1	3.43	-2.43
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	1	3.1	-2.1
Street Life The Crusaders	1	3.09	-2.09
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby	1	2.98	-1.98
Live At The Regal B.B. King	2	3.68	-1.68
Madman Across The Water Elton John	2	3.59	-1.59
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Play Moby	2	3.47	-1.47

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Artist	Albums	Average
Steely Dan	3	4.33

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The Rolling Stones	3, 4, 1

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Phil Specter's brand of sugary pop music combined with christmas music is really a magical combination that was made to be. The perfect way to have a fun, classy christmas album. A

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Possibly the best jazz album ever made, it's one of those albums where there is this like "11/10 sheen" that I stumble upon in albums with super high ratings. It's a suite with some of the best big band playing ever recorded. Waves of saxophones and trumpets.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Their first album to really be worth listening to, even if a lot of the tracks are not very good. B

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Step up from the last album, the single here is obviously absurdly good, and there are still plenty of other synthy soul tracks. B

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

More intense and faster than the debut with seemingly endless memorable song elements. A+

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Probably her best album, it's shorter than previous album that had some big highlights but lulls after the A-Side, but this one keeps it shorter and is consistently great. A

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

This is respectable old school punk fused with modern alternative rock trends and production to make something radio friendly yet full of edge. However, I will rate it low from hearing it a lot as a kid. C

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Well made 90s art pop, uses a lot of elements from old school chamber jazz music in order to differentiate itself. B

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

5/5

This is next level. I love D'Angelo and he's on this. This is basically a hip hop version of his sound, and his sound is incredible. Deep funky grooves with poetic raps that still won't let go of the street. A+

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

One of the most unique albums ever made. Masterpiece of psychedelic guitar music, half the songs are stuck in my head. A+

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

I haven't listened to this in 9 years. Really lush poppy music with emotion. There's a lot of earwormy parts of this album too which is a weakness for me. Probably a masterpiece. A

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Besides the singles this is pretty boring. But the singles are good enough I will rate it high. B

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Wow okay, this has amazing songwriting, best of their career and it's even jazzier than the last album, it even has Wayne Shorter on it. A+

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Not as experimental as the last album, but pristine, big sounding pop with plenty of artfulness. A+

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

More of the last album, but with this super unique Neo-Neo Soul funk jazz production. Obviously incredible. A+

Disraeli Gears

Cream

1/5

Has three good songs, and the rest suck. Terrible sound, even on mono, which is apparently much better than the stereo sound. Perhaps a compilation with just the singles by this band is worthwhile. D

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

More of the last album, perfectly produced rock, but it lacks the things that make their earlier or later albums masterpieces. B

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Timeless progressive soul + funk. Complex and catchy with atmosphere and spirit. A

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

More like the last album, sublime blues rock that moves between soft and hard. B

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Creative dark folk rock in the vein of White Chalk with dark, grand lyricism. A

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

One of the best metal albums ever made, thrash metal at full throttle intensity, accompanied by amazing song writing and atmospheric moments. A+

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

One of the best modern hip hop albums, the lyrics are deep and intense without being heady. A

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I'm a hater for this band and I can't even deny this album. Dazed & Confused is a perfect song. B

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

This has a flawless 45 minutes on it but about half of this is not very exciting folk ballads. I will rate it higher because some of the best songs I've heard are on here. A

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Not quite as good as Nevermind, but it's more consistent and is their harshest sounding album. Amazing closer. A

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

This is a lyric centric album and I don't know French, but the backing band is really good. B

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Amazing album that transcends genre. A+

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

Pretty good for 70s punk, has some hits on it, similar to the rolling stones but more raucous. C

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

It's really interesting how this is their longest album and also their most consistent. Their early discography is just extremely inconsistent albums, then last album is pretty consistent and while it is better than this one, this is completely worth listening to the whole way through. An artist who put out 30 minute albums with skips has a double album without any. A

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

This is their best album to this point. The B-Side falls off however, but the A-Side stands up to Rubber Soul. B

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

I didn't like this too much before, but since then I have grown an appreciation for clean vocals in metal. This takes sludge metal and fuses it with a radio friendly production to create alternative metal that still has atmosphere and grit to it. The vocals are honestly kind of incredible in this album, they do more for this album than the vocals on most pop albums, and the guitar works with them perfectly. A+

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Amazing live album, the last track is obviously mind melting, but there is high energy and great playing the whole time. A

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

This is just as good as his older masterpieces, but in a different style. A

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Not as good as their first album but pretty good. B

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Has two undeniable hits, the rest of this sounds like a David Bowie album but not as good. Some of the songs are not that good and go over 6 minutes long. I will rate this higher than it deserves for the singles. B

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

1/5

Meandering nonsense and La Grange.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

It's good, but I don't love it or connect with it. It's basically Billy Joel but not as good. C

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

This is like an evil Frank Sinatra. A

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Not as good as Dume, which features intense noisy versions of a lot of these songs, but still a career high for him, his best songwriting and best playing. A+

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Anthemic, big songs combined with sentimental ballads. Not his best, but the singles are some of the best in his career. A+

Street Life

The Crusaders

1/5

Not bad, but this is mostlly background music. The first track was pretty good, but it has a 3 minute outro for no reason. D

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Pinnacle of classic hip hop. A

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

This is close to Discipline by Kc, had no idea Robert Fripp is the guitarist in Heroes. The B-Side is not as strong as the A-Side, he is doing like Low, but the ambient tracks aren't as good here. It's not as good as Low, but almost as good and one of the best rock albums. A

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

This is amazing, this is like the Beatles with as much swag as possible. A+

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

This is their Sgt. Pepper, a concept album with their best songwriting till that point, full of career highlights. A+

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

This is like if the Strokes didn't know how to write memorable hooks and also if you hard plagiarized Bob Dylan. F

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Fun and bouncy acoustic rock music. B

Stephen Stills

2/5

The A-Side was pretty good, but after that point is falls off, feels like mostly filler. C

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

More consistent than the the first album, but it doesn't match all of it's peaks. B

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

Better produced and noisier than the last album. B

The Stooges

3/5

Probably the best pure garage rock album, strong singles, but unlike most hard rock albums from this era, the whole album is actually good. Deserves to be celebrated. B

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Okay, this one is her best album, while some of her later albums have more interesting arrangements, having jazz elements and whatnot, this has the strongest songwriting of her career, all the songs are very sharp and better produced than the previous albums. A

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

I am rating this a bit higher because the singles are some of the best songs of the entire 90s. The rest is just okay. A

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Sublime, funky jazz music with a spacey sound. A

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

1/5

This is one of the least accessible mainstream rock albums I have heard, this is like accidentally avant-garde. Just percussion and talking vocals with guitar twangs once every thirty seconds. I have no idea why they made this, most of the songs sound like bizarre parodies of Bob Dylan and I cannot identify why it's supposed to be enjoyable, terrible production that buries the instruments as well. F

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Pretty good 90s electic hard rock. Diverse pallete of subgenres.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

It's an alright studio session but they're just jamming out some instrumental covers. C

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

This is a lot better than I expected, the production really carries it and it has some strong singles. Like Yeezus but different. C

Peter Gabriel

4/5

One of his best albums with some of the best pop/rock songs of the entire 80s. A

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

1/5

This kinda sounds like 90s Prince but more boring.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

One of the only rock albums that surpasses Yeezus at production. Maximalist perfection. A+

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Overall her best album, consistent all the way through and with some of her most haunting performances ever.

Play

Moby

2/5

Not as bad as I thought, the singles are pretty good. C

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

2/5

It's good, but I liked Cook County more. C

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

One of the best albums of all time. I hear it different every listen, noticing a different current within the composition. A totally unique fusion of just everything in dark experimental music applied to a 90s rock setting. Classic for a reason. A+

Metallica

3/5

Has more creativity and ideas than many metal albums I will rate higher than it, so I have to commend it for that, it just doesn't have songwriting or production good enough to match, guitar should be louder. B

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Really is one of the best albums ever, the drumming is insanely good and the keyboards add another level to the music. A+

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Surprisingly good angular garage punk with a pop edge that doesn't get in the way of the songs. B

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

There is an underlying Prince influence in this and the last album that take it over the top and make their sound really unique and stand out. On this album I really like the rock elements. It's not as consistent as the last album, and I don't know why they have so many interludes. A

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Possibly their best album, takes the best parts of their normal sound with the exploration of maggot brain. A

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

I have to be real about it, I don't like this. It's okay music, but I genuinely don't understand how this is considered so notable. It has a few good ditties on it, but otherwise the vocals are just okay, the playing is not particularly standout in any way, and most of the song aren't memorable. I don't understand what most people are seeing. C

Violent Femmes

3/5

I used to listen to this album as a kid, I always assumed it was a 90s acoustic alternative album, but it's actually from the early 80s. Very unique college rock type sound that's all about the struggled of youth in frank terms. B

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

2/5

It's good, but he's not the most charismatic MC and these beats aren't very interesting. C

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Nice music, a lot of the value of this is sort of as an archive for all these songs in ideal form. B