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Album	You	Global	Diff
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	5	2.71	+2.29
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	5	2.74	+2.26
Infected The The	5	2.92	+2.08
Joan Baez Joan Baez	5	2.96	+2.04
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	5	3.15	+1.85
Forever Changes Love	5	3.22	+1.78
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	5	3.24	+1.76
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	5	3.38	+1.62
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.46	+1.54

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	1	3.51	-2.51
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	1	3.42	-2.42
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	1	3.37	-2.37
Closer Joy Division	1	3.22	-2.22
Dirty Sonic Youth	1	3.11	-2.11
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.09	-2.09
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	1	2.94	-1.94
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.63	-1.63
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	2	3.61	-1.61
Arrival ABBA	2	3.5	-1.5

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Led Zeppelin	2	5

5-Star Albums (19)

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Popular Reviews

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

Thought I would hate this one but turns out I liked it a lot. Liked the music and the lyrics.

3 likes

Infected

The The

5/5

I’m listening to this album a day late. The big debate was last night and it was a disaster. This album feels so prescient.

3 likes

4-Star Albums (18)

1-Star Albums (9)

All Ratings

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Easy listening album. Liked most of the songs. Probably wouldn't listen to it over and over again.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

1/5

Boring. Felt like white noise.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Definitely not background music. This album demands full attention. Love it.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Listened on a gloomy rainy morning. Fit my meditative, quiet mood. BTW unable to play it on spotify. Had to find it on you tube.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Meh. Kind of teenage angsty. Second half was more interesting.

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

So horrifying. So real. Couldn't look away. I was going to give it a 1 star. But it haunted me all day. Does that mean that it should get 5 star? I'll go with 3 just because I can't decide.

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

I'm not a fan of this music. I thought the album was tedious. I find the guitar crescendos annoying. Not my taste.

Ramones

4/5

So I just dissed the Dust because I said I didn't like loud crescendo-y guitar playing. BUT I do love the Ramones. I guess if you add a consistent up-beat in-your-face dance beat to it I'm hooked. I mean, who couldn't want to dance to Blitzdrieg Bop or Judy is a Punk.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Liked it. Liked the opening with a good rock and roll vibe.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

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Arrested Development

5/5

Loved it!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Great album. Love hearing it now and then but wouldn’t add it to my queue. Hmmm… Does that make it a 3 or a 4?

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Wow. That was sick. Song of Joy and O’Malley’s Bar…so disturbing.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Trippy electronic music doesn’t do it for me. I can see grooving to it in a disco but hard to just listen to a whole album in a normal state of mind.

Paul Simon

5/5

I love Paul Simon! Great song writer and musician. I never get tired of listening to his songs. I probably would have picked his Graceland album as the one to pick for the 1001 compilation.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Another great singer song writer. Love Word on a Wing, Golden Years and TVC15.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Meh. Didn’t hate it. Kind of annoying background music.

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

Thought I would hate this one but turns out I liked it a lot. Liked the music and the lyrics.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

I liked it but it didn’t draw me in.

Dire Straits

4/5

Like the bluesy feel of this album.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Never heard of Nico. Found album interesting. Read her bio. Seems she was a constant presence in the music scene of the’60s and’70s. I’ll give the album 3 stars because of its historical interest.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

It’s all about the guitar. I loved listening to this album.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Most anything Paul Simon is easy to listen to. This one brings back memories so I’m giving it a 5.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

I enjoyed listening to the album. I liked Stand and Orange Crush. But the album didn’t wow me. So I guess a bit better than 3.

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

I thought I would hate this album after the first cynical song. But by the end of song two I was hooked.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

1/5

Didn't enjoy this album.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Never heard of these folks but enjoyed the album. I liked her voice and most of the songs on the album but the music got a little tedious.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Liked the horns. Kind of liked the whiny angsty lyrics. Kept me interested.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Liked this album a lot. Fun to listen to all the way through.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

Hated it. As mom used to say, just noise.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

5/5

Best album yet! I love cowboy music and this album has so many classics.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Liked some of it but not music I would ever seek out.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Enjoyed the album. Liked the way he had a full band behind him. But it didn’t make me want to listen to it twice.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

1/5

Did not enjoy this album.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Good old fashioned rock and roll. Really liked the Otis Redding song.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Hmmmm…Do I give this a 5 or a 1? On the one hand, I’m in awe of the way rappers rap. It’s so infectious. Hard to look away. But I would never choose to listen to this on my own. On the other hand, I did listen to it all the way through and felt empathetic to the feelings and messages of the songs. It was exhausting but so amazing.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

What a horrible sad thing to put out into the world. Of course the last song made it almost worth the effort of suffering through this mercifully short album. It was pretty funny.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Nice listening.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

Got bored halfway through.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Liked a couple of old standards but otherwise I’m not sure why this album is on the list.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Loved this album. Brought me back to last angsty days of youth before Wheels On The Bus totally took over. The music still resonates.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

1/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Such an amazing talent. Her vocal range is awesome.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

I liked a few of the songs on this album. Dream Letter and Gypsy Woman were interesting. But overall, kind of meh.

The Cars

4/5

It was fun listening to this album. But I remember how oversaturated the radio waves were with these pop songs. They played the same songs constantly on all the radio stations until you got tired of them. I was so happy when I discovered the Brown U station (WBRU) that played stuff you never heard on the commercial stations. This was a nice trip down memory lane.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

I didn’t listen to the whole album but I was impressed with the first songs I heard I thought the Jesus song was especially moving.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

5/5

I’d give this a 5+. Awesome album. Loved the rhythm and the bass all the way through.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Good background music to listen to. It felt very calming but a bit boring.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Forever Changes

Love

5/5

I don’t remember these guys, but I really liked this album. There music is so typical of the 60s. Loved the horns.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Nobody does it like Led Zeppelin. So much fun to listen to.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

The Love album and this Cream album bring back so many memories. So much great music from the 60s.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

4/5

More 60s. Nostalgic. But musically, a 4.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Meh. I don’t remember these guys. I enjoyed the first and last songs.

Joan Baez

5/5

Wow. I had forgotten how powerful her voice was. I love these classics. This was part of the soundtrack of my early college days.

Closer

Joy Division

1/5

Too dark for me.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Liked zero a lot. Liked the next songs a little. I enjoyed the acoustic versions of the songs much more than the electronic versions.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Love Pink Floyd.

Infected

The The

5/5

I’m listening to this album a day late. The big debate was last night and it was a disaster. This album feels so prescient.

Foo Fighters

3/5

Just background music. This album didn’t engage me. I’d give it a 2 or 3. Maybe a 3 because it didn’t annoy me.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

Great rendition of summertime blues! Awesome guitars. Lots of electronic gimmickry going on. BTW seeing the picture of these pathetic looking old dudes on Spotify while listening to the album took some of the magic away 😂.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Great album. Reminds me of Grateful Dead. Or does Grateful Dead remind me of the Band?

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

I can’t look I say as I cover my eyes and peek between my fingers. That’s how I felt listening to this. Totally engrossed. Loved the horns and a lot of the humor.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Liked the acoustic sound a lot. The songs were a little weird but I enjoyed listening to them.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Weird songs made to feel like show tunes. Overall, liked it..Sorta.

Elvis Presley

5/5

What a great album. In 1955 I only heard the songs that got played on the radio. Some of these songs were new to me. I liked his version of Blue Moon. I remember sneaking into our car sometimes to listen to the radio. My mother wouldn’t let us play that “hillbilly music” in the house.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

5/5

Fun album all the way through. Lots of old standards. I liked his rendition of “Losing You”.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Loved the musical transitions throughout the album.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Not a big fan of synthesized music but I did enjoy listening to this album.