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Album	You	Global	Diff
Arrival ABBA	5	3.5	+1.5
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.68	+1.32
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	4	2.75	+1.25
Back to Basics Christina Aguilera	4	2.76	+1.24

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	1	3	-2
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.9	-1.9
Bone Machine Tom Waits	1	2.86	-1.86
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.65	-1.65
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	2	3.61	-1.61
Shleep Robert Wyatt	1	2.5	-1.5
The Band The Band	2	3.37	-1.37
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	2	3.35	-1.35
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	2	3.31	-1.31
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	2	3.29	-1.29

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O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

Somehow struggled to get into any of these

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

It's what I expected a full REM album to sound like. Not bad, but nothing sonically that grabbed me and made me want to listen again.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Exactly what I expected a full Credence album to sound like. Surprisingly short with decent variety.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

The highs of this album are so high, but it needed some cuts. I appreciate its importance for the amount of musical experimentation underway, but it lacks cohesion

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Solid album top to bottom, with great highs and no real cuts. Would give it a 4.5 if it allowed that granularity because there’s nothing that deeply grabbed me

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Thought it would be an absolute techno banger based on the first song. Then nothing else really hit for me.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

A good set of covers, but I wasn’t moved by any of them

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Inconsistent album - it’s not clear what they were going for here

The Band

2/5

Not that it was unpleasant but there was nothing to grab onto from this album

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Includes one of my favorite songs of all time but it doesn’t hold up on a full listen

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

I did not enjoy a single second of this album. Only got through it by sheer force of will

Music

Madonna

2/5

There’s a bop or two on here, but it’s inconsistent in theme

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Vibes were great but no song really grabbed me

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Came in with very low expectations but ended up liking a song or two. Got some good 90s angst

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Another 4.5 star review. You can see why Nirvana was going to have long-term impact on music, and the live versions are as good as any recording

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Like this a lot more than I expected. Cohesive sobs and environment that feels perfectly 2000s indie

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Lovely soul album from an artist I’d never heard of. Vibes were good even if nothing stood out

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Lots of jazz flute. Fun album that didn’t really land for me

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

1/5

Hated this

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Album needed some cuts. I like the tone / some of the songs, but it gets repetitive really fast

2112

Rush

3/5

Prog-rock being prog-rock. Didn’t mind it, but didn’t have a sense of direction

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

Feels like a modern miseducation of Lauryn hill

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Was ready to dismiss this pretty early on, but I enjoyed the back half of the album. Could be a 3.5 (as long as we’re on the 12 track version)

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Pretty damn good. It’s a full concert on one album, I just don’t have the attention span for a 2 hour album

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

Strong flow on the album

Le Tigre

2/5

Sounds like noise, not much positive to voice

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

2/5

It felt like a collection of sounds / words more than an album

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Weird but I was into it

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

Jam band style jazz. Nothing really grabbed me

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

This has not aged well. Musically fine, but the lyrics were rough

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Wanted to listen to it again. That’s been fairly rare

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

1/5

This really gave me nothing

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Beats were good but nothing clicked with me in particular

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Some all timers on here but the album tracks don’t hit for me

Black Sabbath

3/5

Solid album to rock out but no particular song grabbed me

1977

Ash

2/5

Nothing to grab onto here

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Another 4.5 one. It lives up to the hype with hitters and album tracks

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Some album filler, but the highs of the album are perfect

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

This one delivers the hits and album tracks are pretty strong too. True 4.5

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

Fine, nothing really to see here

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Solid but unmoving jazz album

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

At least it gave us Hurt

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Solid mid 90s rap album

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

Somehow struggled to get into any of these

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Fun concept, well executed, and lets Christina belt for an hour

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

I see why Eminem became a thing but woof at the subject matter

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Elite bops abound but the filler is very filler, and he can’t decide whether he wants Latin pop, r&b, or boy band energy

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

I think if I listened again I’d get light early Kanye vibes

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Pure classic rock vibes

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Solid early 90s rap

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

Felt far more modern than expected. You could tell he was playing around with sounds

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Did not realize they did things after Pet Sounds. Thought it was fine but the album wasn’t cohesive and there was no single that grabbed me

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

I don’t understand why this was interesting or important

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Another middle of the road rock album

Elvis Presley

3/5

It’s an important album, but I know understand every claim of appropriation

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

At least we got take on me out of this

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Some strong singles but it’s sonically repetitive and didn’t make me want to dig in more

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Enjoyed this one and would give it another listen

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

The Coral

3/5

Had no idea what to expect but enjoyed the ride

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Pure disco pop bliss