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Album	You	Global	Diff
Nothing's Shocking Jane's Addiction	5	3.17	+1.83
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.19	+1.81
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	4	2.39	+1.61
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.43	+1.57
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	5	3.49	+1.51
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	4	2.77	+1.23
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	5	3.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.62	-1.62
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.59	-1.59
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.39	-1.39
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	2	3.31	-1.31
Eagles Eagles	2	3.3	-1.3
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	2	3.23	-1.23
Drunk Thundercat	2	3.12	-1.12
Close To You Carpenters	2	3.12	-1.12
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	2	3.11	-1.11

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Jane's Addiction	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5

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Robert Wyatt	2	1.5

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Live Through This

Hole · 1 likes

4/5

This album rocks! I never gave Hole a chance based on the anti-Courtney Love feelings in the mid nineties. Shame on in me. As far as I'm concerned, this is real grunge right here.

1-Star Albums (2)

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The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Aptly named album. Great listen.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Is it music because someone is making musical sounds with their voice? Because instruments are being used?

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Silly rhyming about sex. Not my thing but I did catch myself dancing throughout the album.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Thinking about other music from this era, this was a markedly different sound. Love the sax!

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

5/5

I went back in time listening to Nothing's Shocking. I love everything about this album.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

I've heard great things so I wanted to LOVE it. The first half disappointed me but then I started appreciating how much it rocks. After listening to it all the way through I gave the first half another chance. Still not loving it but still a really good album. I would like to give it 3.5 stars so I'm rounding up to 4.

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Hard to believe he also did The Wander. Apparently he's got a blues album it there too.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Much better than I expected. Too much soft rock for me to love it though.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Steve Winwood! Wait a second, this isn't at all like Back in the High Life or Roll with it. Or like any of his work with Clapton, Hendrix, or Traffic... So much synthesizer. 2.85 stars

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

The album cover gave me Big Lebowski vibes, and I think The Dude would like it. I liked a couple songs I never heard before. Jump into the Fire was a nice surprise. I'll be listening to this album again. 3.4 stars

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Just Paul and that's just fine. Nothing earth shattering. I did love when he sang about Linda even if it wasn't a fantastic song. Of course Maybe I'm Amazed was great.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

It took so long to get through this. I learned that jazz with no horns is easy to ignore. 2.4 stars

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

This is jazz I can enjoy. I'm not a fan of the scatting but she didn't do much of that.

Play

Moby

4/5

This album made an impression on me when it came out. It's not the type of talent I associate with much of the artists on this list, but that's not what electronic/dance music is about. I dig it. 3.6 stars

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Great songs, rough singing voice.

Boston

4/5

I have to admit that I've heard this so much that I'm sick of it. I'll give it a 4 even though I'm feeling 3 because I'm grumpy about hearing it again.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

This is what it sounds like when grunge is being born. This album was good - I liked Doolittle better. 3.3 stars

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

4/5

The album cover doesn't really fit the sound and I was skeptical. I could hear mild punk and some funk and rock in there. All good. Total surprise to me. I'll be listening to this again.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

Zzzzz.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

I hadn't heard some of these and the songs I knew, I didn't know they were M.J. Good stuff.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Great album start to finish. Some songs were 5s for me and others were 4. Chris Cornell man. He's just amazing. There is no one else like him, never was. </3

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Not a lot to say.. I've heard a few of these songs and think they are good tunes.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Blondie seems to have a multigenerational fan base. I've got nothing against Blondie. This album was fun, nostalgic, and a bit uneven.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Mostly a 4 because of nostalgia

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Did Andy Samberg base his SNL music skits on this band? The lyrics are shallow and the music is nearly the same for all the songs.

Pretenders

4/5

I think my favorite song was their cover of Stop Your Sobbing by The Kinks.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Old skool rap. I like it.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

This is a high 2 star rating, really.

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

This album rocks! I never gave Hole a chance based on the anti-Courtney Love feelings in the mid nineties. Shame on in me. As far as I'm concerned, this is real grunge right here.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

I had a good time heading back to the 80s. I hadn't heard a couple of these before. A few standout songs but I had enough when the album was done Annie's voice is amazing. One of the best voices in rock music.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

I guess I don't like R&B.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Lots of his trademark screams. Lots of soul.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

Adele

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Not my kind of music

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

I don't know man, I danced the whole way through this. Loops be damned, I had a good time.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Most of these songs were a 2 but a few were fun so I'm rounding up to a three.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

John Prine

4/5

I didn't know he wrote these songs. I guess I've been a John Prine fan for a while. Well done!

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Super funky. I love it!

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

2/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Low 3 for me

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

This was too long.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

5/5

So so good. I am going to listen to this again right now

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

I would like this better with no voice. High 2 stars at most.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I didn't liked this when I was living through it. I know the content is so misogynistic but I like a few songs much more than I did then.

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Right on! Old skool hip hop! I hope there is more of this on the list.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

Was this a joke? It isn't funny

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Silly, witty, and romantic popish music.

Eagles

2/5

This is country. I don't like it.

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

It's pure garage punk energy - short, catchy, and makes you wanna mosh.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

I wish I liked Radiohead more. I like the angsty sound but I can't always tell what the songs are about with all the mumbling.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

This was pretty okay. Sounded like a lot of other bands. That's fine, just not a favorite of mine.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

What a nice change from modern country. This is good Two Step music.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

This is what comes to mind when I think about MTV unplugged. It was a huge deal when it came out and it aged well. I love it!

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Not my thing. It's a high 2 so I guess that makes it a 3

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Karen Carpenter's voice is so good. I don't want to hear it though. I'm not into it.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

One of the first songs on the album talked about calling the doctor at peepeefiveonedoodoo. The first "song" was porn. It's hard to take it seriously after that. There were more juvenile references that just kept taking it down. What could have been good hip hop/psychedelic funk ended up losing to the bodily fluid references.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

This is how you can get me to enjoy Country and Western music.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

It felt like they were going for something big but it didn't hit for me

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

More noise than music

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

She sings her heart out. It's a really good album and not the type of songs I typically hear on the radio.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

This has some killer riffs and Bruce Dickinson's vocals are powerful,. I'm not a metal fan but this is for sure a classic.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Led Zeppelin is incredible and Robert Plant's voice is one of a kind. This is an album I continue to come back to year after year.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Is post punk pop a thing? The songs all sound the same

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

This is alright. It's got that fuzzy, distorted guitar sound and there's a decent amount of melody buried under the noise, which keeps it from being just a headache.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Some songs are fun but overall it's a 3.4 for me

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Punk with adolescent humor and catchy tunes. This was almost a 4

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

I definitely did not listen to this when it came out. Now that I'm a middle aged adult I want to play it so loud my ears hurt.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Laid back beats and socially conscious lyrics. I'm into it!

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Quirky mix of genres. Varied instrumentation about love in all forms. I'm never going to listen to this again.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Love the vocals and smooth rhythms.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Although some of the lyrics are cool and Joni Mitchell's voice is unique, this album isn't a stand-out for me.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

I listened to this twice. First time I was going to give it 4 stars because Nico. Listening again I'm appreciating her out of placeness and it would be a shame to dock the album a star due to her awkward and annoying voice since she only sang lead in a few. Rough, unpolished, beautiful album.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Whether it's punk blues or rockabilly punk, I wonder if this is the beginning of alternative rock. Regardless, I'm a fan.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

I don't have a lot to say. This is enjoyable chill background music.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Funky, trippy, cool from start to finish.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Has an interesting sound that I don't hate. Not a fan of the mumbly songs though. I'm missing something.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Taylor Swift’s 1989 is her first non-country album and is a testament to her remarkable talent, dedication, and ability to create anthems that resonate with millions. 1989 has a few catchy quintessential Swift songs with hooks that we won't forget any time soon. While some critics call it formulaic, it’s clear that Swift is more than just a pop star; she’s an artist who knows how to connect with her audience in a way few can. Dismissing her fans as ‘sheep’ is another way to invalidate the opinions of teenage girls who see something real in her music. The extra half-star is for her influence on modern music history and how she’s shaped the pop landscape.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Wish I liked this more.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5