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Album	You	Global	Diff
Junkyard The Birthday Party	4	2.16	+1.84
Marcus Garvey Burning Spear	5	3.19	+1.81
Like A Prayer Madonna	5	3.23	+1.77
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Protection Massive Attack	5	3.25	+1.75
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	5	3.26	+1.74
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.32	+1.68
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
High Violet The National	1	3.24	-2.24
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	1	2.85	-1.85
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.84	-1.84
Calenture The Triffids	1	2.55	-1.55
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.5	-1.5
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	2	3.49	-1.49
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	2	3.38	-1.38
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.34	-1.34

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Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Super cool. Not your run of the mill hip hop. Definitely worth a listen if you like stuff that's a bit weird.

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Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Super 80s classic. Prince was always so creative.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Definitely a cool change of pace for me. I've been getting more into jazz, and this was a good album to clean the house to.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

The last track is 18 minutes long and the drums don't kick in for 8. I believe this is known as "foreplay." Very sexy record.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

The players are clearly very good. I like the drummer. I have a lot of friends who are way into Dan. Although I liked this, I kind of just wanted to listen to Earth Wind amd Fire instead.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

The building blocks of a lot of weird music I pike better than I like this.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

This wave of britrock never grabbed me. It's fine, but I'll never listen to it again.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

I'd never really listened to Tom Petty before outside the singles and I really dug this album! Straight rock and roll played well and earnestly. Tom Petty himself is weirder of a vocalist than he gets credit for

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

An important album, but not quite my style. I enjoyed it enough.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

Put me to sleep. Needs Y. Love me some Y. CSN? Ehh.

The xx

4/5

Surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. Chill out synth tunes with solid vocals. Sexy, but not too sexy.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

A seminal alternative influence, Lou Reed isn't exactly my thing but he is am important player in rock hiatory and I was glad to have a prompt to listen to this album.

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Real cool chill out stuff. Super chill, but not without form or a backbone.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

What can I say? Brilliant album. I was never a huge Bob Marley guy but the man was a genius and he pieced together excellent music.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

These label manufactured boy bands are always good for some fun pop hits.

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Just funktacular. Loved it.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

I was never into the Cure. It's fine. I like a lit of stuff influenced by the cure.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Dude shut up

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

It is striking how much of an 80s rap album this is and not a 90s one they didn't have the budget yet to do things they would do in the 90s. A pioneering album, but do be prepared for the subject matter to be mostly violence and misogyny.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Big vocals. Big arrangements. Masterfully crafted pop rock.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Not bad, but not good either. I can hear how this influenced other things I like more, so credit for that.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

I really enjoyed this one. I wasn't so big on CSN, but I do love me some Y.

Protection

Massive Attack

5/5

I really enjoyed this. It would have been too low key for me when I was younger but it's just my speed now.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Not too offensive but mostly MOR drivel. The rapper isn't very good. They like weed. Woooo.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Definitely a 67 rock album. Sounds like they just started taking acid and can't wait to tell you about it.

Debut

Björk

4/5

I never listened to Bjork before and I'm glad I did. Solid album with some interesting stuff in it. I'll check out more.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Sinatra is a guy I never listen to but is clearly quite skilled.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Fantastic. Stevie Wonder is a genius.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Bill Pumpkins has his head so far up his own ass that he's a brilliant songwriter.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

One of the greatest and most varied albums of all time.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

5/5

I am no Reggae expert, but this was very enjoyable and obviously extremely authentic.

Joan Baez

3/5

I'm not really into late 50s/early 60s folk stuff. I enjoyed this album but it isn't quite my style. If you like this style, this is clearly good stuff.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Thom York's wailing doesn't impress me as much as some. Solid, but uninspiring.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Super cool. Not your run of the mill hip hop. Definitely worth a listen if you like stuff that's a bit weird.

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Good. A lot ofnworse bands try to sound like this.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Beautiful. Aretha is the greatest soul singer of all time. No notes.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Iconic. A certain kind of aggression here that is missing from modern music. No surprise this connected so hard with its fans. Love it.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

Lyrically very dense with nice, bouncy beats. Very much a Wu-Tang solo album. Would listen again.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Excellent vocal jazz. It's a genre I know more generically and this record is a good place to out a name to the sound.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

4/5

Guttural, personal album. It's what John needed for catharsis after the breakup if the Beatles. I bet it hit the scene like a wrecking ball when it came out.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

Very good. Really great beats and thoughtful rapping about the struggle of the day. Would listen again.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Good songs. Great singer and player.

S&M

Metallica

4/5

I listened to this a ton when I was young. It's highs are high indeed but it is way too long.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Not bad. A little schlocky. My friends are all reccommending other Kate Bush albums. I may check them out.

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

Sucked

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Classic rock at its classicest. Good playing and songwriting. Captures a certain feel of the time. Very much a prototype for future stuff.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Really cool stuff. Not quite my style but I see why it hit such a nerve in the clubs.

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Not bad, but it seems like a disco album for people who don't want to get up.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Very good. Almost all instrumental and quite well played. Different without being too weird. I do like too weird, and am to undertand that I should continue listening to Zappa to get weirder.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Excellent. This captures a certain mood that is hard to pin down but I love it. I see why it's so acclaimed.

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

You can hear the strings of rock to come in this relatively obscure one.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Not bad. Got my head bopping. Not an expert in the genre, but I enjoyed it.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Fun. Jaunty. Always a fan of some extra flute.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

Ramblin' is certainly right! I dig this kind of folk/country a lot more than the kind of folk that came up in the '60s. It's more raw.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

Fairly generic rock of the day. I never got the big deal with Rod Stewart It's fine I guess but there's so much better out there.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Not bad. Some big hits on it. Certainly got me grooving a bit, but nothing too mind blowing.

The La's

3/5

I enjoyed this. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of Brit rock but this album was good for me.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Singer is terrible. Band is ok. A solid 2.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

A part of the bedrock that heavy metal was carved from. Fantastic.

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

I wasn't expecting much but this isn't bad. Some cool guitar work on several tracks.

Third

Portishead

4/5

Very good. Super chill out music but with a sense of urgency and sometimes dread.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Not bad, but definitely an influence for a lot of early '80s terrible smooth jazz. It sounds like every nonlyrical TV show intro from 1978-1983

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Very good hard rock. Practically a template for the genre.

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

I can see how this is an example of a certain ideal, but I'm just not into Drum&Bass enough to be into it for 139 minutes. This would be good BGM for chill activity. The version available on youtube music is the expanded version over 5 hours. I found out where the original endpoint was and finished there.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

If you've heard one Motorhead album you've kind of heard them all. That being said, this is good. It's like if Black Sabbath was a punk band.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Not bad at all. They could use to tone down the reverb a bit.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Had me bopping in my chair. I'd always heard of Fela Kuti but I don't think I'd listened before.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Dylan has never really been my thing. That being said I enjoyed this album a lot better than when I first heard it when I was 16 in 1998.

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Cool Afro-Cuban Jazz. I don't know much about the genre but I totally dug it.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

A little sleepy for me but not bad. I always loved "Hazy Shade Of Winter."

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

This absolutely rules. Not a still booty in the house.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

5/5

Amazing pop record. Easy 5. Madonna rules.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Cool stuff. I can see why it's popular in places.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

The seminal grunge masterpiece. Eddie Vedder's distinct vice punches through some of the finest crafted rock guitars and drums of the '90s.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Not much of an impression left. It was fine.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

This should have been a 15 minute sample CD handed out after shows.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Fantastic stuff. Deep Purple is one of the fundamental builing blocks of heavy metal. You can draw a straight line from this album to early Judas Priest.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

4/5

Such abraisive noise! I mean that as a compliment.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

None of these songs begin or end.

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Not bad. Better than a lot of Brit Rock this has given me.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

No skips. Electronica for alt-metal people.

High Violet

The National

1/5

Hated it. "I listened to Radiohead once" indy trash.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Middle of the road, unadventurous music. Not terrible.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Dark Side rules. Required listening for the inebriated. Animals is better.

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

Not bad. A bit sleepy.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

This is a band that somehow missed me, but this is right up my alley. Very well done glam rock with attitude.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

You listen to the first track "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" and think this clearly is the greatest metal track of all time. Then the second track, "Hangar 18" comes on and you reconsider. Easy 5.

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

The sound of a white man who has never had any problems.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Some of the best of what was at the time considered new school hip hop.

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

The strangest album I've heard here s far. Notes of East European industrial, John Williams, Queen, '80s demoscene influenced synth. Cool stuff.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Big double album here. Some really good stuff on it, but I preferred Purple Rain for its cohesiveness.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

As advertised. About half an hour of crooning love songs. Not bad. Pretty sure this guy wants to bang a horse tho.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

No disrespect to Leonard Cohen who is an excellent songwriter and lyricist and all that, but this kind of low energy folk just never did it for me.