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Album	You	Global	Diff
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.58	+1.42
Superunknown Soundgarden	5	3.66	+1.34
Group Sex Circle Jerks	4	2.74	+1.26
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	4	2.8	+1.2
Quiet Life Japan	4	2.85	+1.15
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.86	+1.14
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	2.92	+1.08
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	4	2.95	+1.05
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Risque CHIC	2	3.27	-1.27

5-Star Albums (4)

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Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

A masterpiece of an album by a legendary band. The first synthesizer hit of "Tom Sawyer" is on the Mount Rushmore of musical moments. Music for the ages.

Risque

CHIC

2/5

Chic is a legendary band. Nile Rodgers is a musical genius. This album, however, is of its time. Can an album wow me without knowledge of the band? Can i be held captive by the music alone? Outside of the first track, no.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Great beats under some incredible rapping. Only criticism is the lyrical themes are somewhat limited. standout tracks: Song Cry, Renegade

The Clash

4/5

Wish i hadn't been as musically myopic as i was in the early 80s. I don't remember punk rock being as musical as i find it to be now. Apologies to my friend Steve who tried to get me into punk rock when i was firmly entrenched in the NWOBHM. Some of it did stick; Dead Kennedys, Black Flag. I need to go back to these classic punk bands and see what i may have missed. I got into the later Clash but this album is a rager.

Debut

Björk

3/5

I enjoyed this album. it kept me engaged with cool arrangements, instrumentation, and production. Standout tracks: Play Dead, Crying, Venus As a Boy, There Is More To Life Than This

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Outside the context of the Stones' place in music and society in 1966, in 2024 this album is just a decent blues record. A couple of songs are very musically dated, as well. The influence of "Under My Thumb" can be heard in some contemporary music. That song, "Mother's Little Helper" and the US-version track "Paint It Black" are the only real standouts.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Never been a Smiths or Morrissey fan outside of "How Soon Is Now", but I'm gonna have to check out some more of their work. Enjoyed this.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

All I knew of Dexys was "come on Eileen". I gotta say, I was surprised at the soul sound of this album. The horn work was excellent. Not gonna be in heavy rotation, but it was a great listen.

Future Days

Can

3/5

This was well done "ambient" music. I didn't hear anything I would consider groundbreaking but I appreciated the composition, arrangement, and production of the album. You can just sit and let this music wash over you.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

After knowing mostly the singles of their career, this is my first dive into a complete album and I loved it. Not a bad song in the bunch. Stellar songwriting, playing, production, the whole shebang. This one will be in rotation.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Without context, this was an album of beautiful soundscapes. Overall, however, there was nothing "exceptional" about it, in my opinion. Standout track: Flugufrelsarinn

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

Decent music but it mostly just sounds like their playing with all the knobs and filters on their guitar pedals and synthesizers.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

2/5

Obviously, the predecessor to clown-core. Louis Cole and Sam Gendel have done the genre proud and carried on the sound. As an origin, this is "groundbreaking"?

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

This might be heresy but take away the title track and this feels like an album of Beatles' b-sides and outtakes. I said what I said.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

This album was my kind of jam.

Lost Souls

Doves

5/5

This album was amazing. I unknowingly already had a couple songs in my favorites. Will check out their other albums.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

I never really "got" James Brown but this album drips with hard work.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Beautiful guitar playing, beautiful music...but sounds so dated. A great record of its time.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Elvis Costello has circled my life for a while. I finally listened to an album and boy did he land that plane.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Decent.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

There are some good songs but it winds up feeling a bit repetitive.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Good chance I'll never listen to it again but having been having been a tween in the golden age of punk, this is one of the albums you play to explain punk rock.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

The Doors

4/5

Definitely sounds like the 60s but doesn’t sound dated. I can see why they made an impact.

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

I know they're considered "new wave" but you can hear what was obviously the future influence of "synth pop" bands like Duran Duran. This was a good album.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

Some good straight-forward bluesy rock. Put this on and just chill with it.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

This is 50 minutes of 12-bar blues music. But it's 50 minutes of some BANGING 12-bar blues, with one of the best blues songs of all time kicking it off.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5