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Album	You	Global	Diff
At Budokan Cheap Trick	5	3.1	+1.9
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	5	3.26	+1.74
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.42	+1.58
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.52	+1.48
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.61	+1.39
Live At The Regal B.B. King	5	3.68	+1.32
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	5	3.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Be Common	1	3.35	-2.35
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Close To You Carpenters	1	3.12	-2.12
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	1	3.11	-2.11
Fever Ray Fever Ray	1	2.99	-1.99
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	1	2.99	-1.99
Like Water For Chocolate Common	1	2.95	-1.95
Kala M.I.A.	1	2.91	-1.91
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	1	2.74	-1.74
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67

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Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

They were huge in Europe. Stay there

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1-Star Albums (11)

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Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Very cool vibe. Feels like a sunken living room on a leather couch drinking some Johnnie Black. Great musicianship. Cool to explore different genres. Would rate like 3.75 or so

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Big sound / great lyrics with a sense of danger in his voice. Always loved nick cave and the aptly named Bad Seeds

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Very good album. Great sound and style Has a little UK The edge to it for a middle American band . Great band that shows up on this album. Solid , consistent songs that plays like an album not a bunch of singles mashed together

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Solid debut after her child star career . Good songs and a team that met their goal of making her famous backing band really shows on some songs . Still can’t believe she wrote that song for that dopey guy on that show I never watched

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Excellent love renditions of these blues classics. He defined much of what mainstream knows of the blues. Great accompanying band and good crowd noise His unique way he bends the strings makes it easy to know it’s BB playing Lucille Can’t get better

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Much bigger band in UK than here. Saw them live in London with New Order ..great energy but were blown away in my opinion Nothing stands out with this album to me.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

A great album from a solid performer. Hits her stride on this album. One of those performers like John Prine and Steve Earle who are great but never spend enough time listening to them

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Haven’t heard it in a while. Wanted to hate it. Like a Broadway play/ Grease III??but lightning in a bottle. Todd Rungren produces an album that sells 40m copies A well packaged effort but maybe too much of a package. Voice is great and musicians are great. Why am I still writing about meatloaf

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Coming off as good a run of albums as anyone .. this is a good album with lots of good songs that shows the changing evolution of Elvis. Great songwriter and performer that is completely versatile. Worth a few listens

Fever Ray

1/5

NOPE

New York Dolls

4/5

Another Todd Rungren production. At the forefront of punk in NYC with the Ramones Never has the commercial success but truly authentic

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Would have loved to see this live. Top musicianship Great blend of all the instruments

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Music stuck in that era. Lyrics a little cheesy. Like the guitar and vocals Almost like a parody band of the 60s

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

5/5

Great Live album in every way. Underrated band. Great set list and they played to the audience Loved listening to this. As everyone my age I wore this album out

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Th mighty Zep. Powerful album with the band smashing on all cylinders Between II and physical graffiti this is the center point of the Trinity of all that was holy for a young man in the 1970s

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Individuals incredible. I don’t think Beck knew what he wanted to do here with this all star lineup Still tip 5 guitar player and Rod one of the best frontmen ever

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Bursted on to the scene. Very talented on this album. What happened. No doubt any Saturday afternoon in the village someone is playing this in the west village

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Hate to criticize bands that tried But these guys didn’t do it for me. Seemed like they were sprinting to end the songs

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Talented women in business and songwriting. But one listen is all o could do. Maybe if o grew up in the mountains

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Early on what was to become one of the most influential bands ever. Lou at the center

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Classic. Peak Mick Taylor Stones which means peak Stones. The guitar work with Keith and the entire band defines a garage raw rock sound I guess being exiled worked.

Elvis Presley

3/5

Classic Elvis. Never loved him but appreciate the musicianship

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

1/5

Nope

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

Couldn’t listen

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Too light and poppy. Marshmallows and lollipops. Had to stop

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

A great album that fits into their odd year 70s must listen /purchase set Sometimes gets overlooked surrounded by the heavyweight albums before and after but stands alone as a tribute to Syd and kept the band going despite some fractures. Watching any iteration of Floyd live and feeling the anticipation of the riff at the beginning of “Shine on….” Is something to behold Can’t say enough about it but still in my rotation 50 years later

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

5/5

Great album. The Aerosmith albums produced by Jack Douglas were pure rockers This was the best of them. A front to back play through always growing up. Unfortunately Aerosmith like J Geils and ZzTop got sucked into the MTV video money grab and became very formulaic and lost the raw rocking that the earlier albums had

Third

Portishead

2/5

Nope- I remember they had one song and were on SNL but this is post apocalyptic

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Cool Afro groove Very cool music

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Nope

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

I have never felt cooler

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Music never was the same. Cohesive big sound Just the appetizer

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Nothing stands out. Another alternative Brit band that was popular there and not here

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

Tom is great whether he’s solo on piano or conjuring up some interesting complimentary sounds Like some of his other stuff better but never disappointed to hear a Tom Waits song

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Nothing here for me

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Legendary group with great musicians behind them. Good quality songs but hard to maintain there best

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

They were huge in Europe. Stay there

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

I liked Arcade Fire. Saw them at Jazz fest Energetic with some chunky guitars.

White Denim

3/5

Thought it was good but not great. Another one of these bands that couldn’t get over the hump

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Simple power chords, chunky riffs. A lot of the same but think he’s creative

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Nothing good

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

Origin of electronic music

Common

1/5

Be …leaving

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

1/5

Close To You

Carpenters

1/5

Kala

M.I.A.

1/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Remember listening to this album. The Clash brought so many sounds together. Two great songwriters Attitude - “The Only Band that matters” I remember “Train in Vain” wasn’t on the track list but was on the album. When they came to NY in the early 80s they turned the city upside down More of this please

Slipknot

1/5

Car crash

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Obviously talented and like the effort to integrate some of the current hits of the day Just not my thing

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Being lucky enough to be in college when REM hit with this album They could never categorize them but you always knew a REM song One of the best bands of the 80s and an underrated live act

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

I remember the release. Showed Neil’s range. From the Harvest like folk to the Crazy Horse riffs In my eyes one of those albums that takes an artist from their roots and creates a “second act” Great memories. Will be seeing him again his year

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Bit of a comeback album from the 70s. Nobody had as powerful blues voice then Muddy The harp playing and guitar bring on the electric blues of the 70s that influenced everyone Johnny Winters produced who was another phenomenal underrated player

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Exorcist theme. Integral part of the movie. Don’t see listening to this unless someone is spewing pea soup and their head spins around 180 degrees

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Exceptional Bowie. Considered a transitional album but full of some of his best work. Station to station is tremendous. TVC15 I remember he played on Saturday NL and still one of my favorite Bowie songs. Golden Years and Stay are awesome songs. I listen to this album a lot and have seen most of these songs performed live STS and TVC15 two of the best live songs Bowie does

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

I always liked there songs. Good listenable album. I still consider them a new band.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

Typical rich kid wants to be a hip hop artist. Found nothing to like here

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Liked it a bit. Not a go to. Thought there would be more with the name

Dire Straits

5/5

From the first time hearing S of Swing it had my interest. Had to find the album and it didn’t disappoint. Great live act. Embraced the video genre and 45 years later still listen to DS and Knopfler solo One of the top guitarists I ever saw. Unique sound

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

A great album that highlights the unmistakeable talented and influential Pogues. Not a band from Ireland or England through the 80s weren’t influenced by this band and Shane Joe strummer / Bono. And many others. Enough said