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Album	You	Global	Diff
Basket of Light Pentangle	5	2.76	+2.24
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.36	+1.64
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.38	+1.62
Blunderbuss Jack White	5	3.4	+1.6
En-Tact The Shamen	4	2.43	+1.57
Frank Amy Winehouse	5	3.45	+1.55
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.51	+1.49
Now I Got Worry The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	4	2.52	+1.48
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	4	2.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	1	3.18	-2.18
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.94	-1.94
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	2	3.87	-1.87
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.73	-1.73
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.7	-1.7
Scott 2 Scott Walker	1	2.63	-1.63
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6
OK Talvin Singh	1	2.57	-1.57
Paul Simon Paul Simon	2	3.51	-1.51
Dirt Alice In Chains	2	3.47	-1.47

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The Score

Fugees

5/5

I apologize, Fugees, I was unfamiliar with your game. Bangers front to back. Absolute flames.

6 likes

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Classic Reggae album if you’re in the mood for a bunch of reggae at once.

2 likes

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Delightful background music. Will save the entire album for cocktail hours and date nights. I feel like I’ve heard all of these songs as backing tracks in movies.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Classic Reggae album if you’re in the mood for a bunch of reggae at once.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

A fine rock album of its era. Joplin has a great voice and powerful personality. Don’t see this being a top 1000 album, personally.

Dire Straits

5/5

Mark Knopfler fucking rocks.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

A timeless talent, gone too soon. I’ve never heard an album quite like this one.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Some strangeness and complexity to this album, as Bowie was known for. Unfortunately not a whole lot I plan on coming back to.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Very cool, very unique album. I can hear a lot of different influences in this album and imagine how it may have influenced many future albums.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

I like Jack White.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Dope.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

The beginnings of rock and roll.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

5/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

2 and 1/2 hours of Mid.

Garbage

4/5

The good kind of garbage.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It’s fine.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Hell yeah this slaps. Weird as hell.

Suede

2/5

Fine, forgettable background music for me.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Quick, and to the point. More albums should strive to be this punchy and cohesive.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

A fine, gentle album.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

4/5

Pretty rad music. Feel like this guy would be a pretentious prick to grab a beer with though.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Some jams on here but also a few moment where they lean far to hard on weird scream melodies.

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

Solid singer-songwriter Americana.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Rad as hell. Big fan of it. Like being embraced by a softer, more ethereal album by The Replacements. Spent the weekend listening to this album and it’s grown on me even more. Probably my favorite so far.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Some fun bops on here. Gritty but melodic.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

This here is a classic.

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Inoffensive, technically sound, pop rock.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

I like steely Dan.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

The songs I already knew are great. The songs I didn’t we’re fine to good. The interludes were terrible and annoying.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

I apologize, Fugees, I was unfamiliar with your game. Bangers front to back. Absolute flames.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Sounds like the Vampire Opera from Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

1-3-5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

I’m sure this was revolutionary at the time but it doesn’t do much for me today. 3/5 because I saved 2 songs, but I won’t be revisiting this one often. It’s technically very sound, just not my jam.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Rad as hell.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Delightful background music. Will save the entire album for cocktail hours and date nights. I feel like I’ve heard all of these songs as backing tracks in movies.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Pretty great example of singer song writer folk rock type stuff. I can get into this from time to time but I won’t be relistening that often.

Talvin Singh

1/5

Background noise.

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Loved this album. Great jams, had a real sense of time and place. Saved a ton of songs and will be relistening for sure.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

I love The Cure.

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

Solid early 90’s rock.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

This sucks. I can smell the whiskey and fancy cigarettes through the speaker.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Some classic bangers on here and I love how committed they are to being goofy. Excellent musicianship on most of the songs, but that being said I don’t see myself retiring to most of these songs all that often.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Excellent opener. Enjoyed the rest of the album as representative of an era I loved. However it mostly blended together for me and I don’t see myself returning to this often.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

“BIG IRON ON HIS HIIIIIIIIP” Music like this taught me that I don’t hate country music, just the modern iteration of it.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

A really nice album, seemingly ahead of its time. You can see the beginnings of some rock, and even some psychedelic stuff going on here. Quite enjoyed it.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Liked this a lot more than I thought I would, but it took a few listens. Very cool music on here, way weirder than the pop affair I assumed from the cover.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Paul Simon

2/5

Look, I’ll respect Paul Simon for his place in the history of American Music. But that doesn’t mean I have to enjoy listening to him.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Solid (brit pop) rock album. But not good enough for the Gallagher brothers to the insufferable ass-hats that they are about it.

Joan Armatrading

2/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

A couple of gems from a bygone era. Great album for when you’re in the mood for this sort of crooning. High: Help Me Ronda Low: Don’t Hurt My Little Sister (seriously what the fuck?)

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

This isn’t even Metallicas best album.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Overall very enjoyable album. Will keep it in mind for coooking accompaniment and cocktail hours. Some of the fast talking, ostensibly himorous, songs drag on a bit for me. (Looking at you, “Lip”). But overall the album is upbeat and fun.

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

One of the greatest opening songs of all time. But outside of that, to quote The Dude: “I hate the fucking Eagles, man.”

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

At least we’ll always have “Born To Die”.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Comes out swinging with a fantastic runs of songs from Even Flow through Jeremy. End of the album kind of melted together for me. But overall it’s an album with a really strong sound and enjoyable songs that helped define an era of rock. Fantastic album.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

Thriller has 4 or 5 of the greatest pop songs of all time packed into a tight 42 minute package. However, some of the (synth-heavy) production sounds dates and overall it seems to fall short as a cohesive “album”.

Common

3/5

Prime (and pre-nazi) Kanye West production sounds excellent across the album. Common has some moments of real lyrical talent on the album as well. However, overall I didn’t take too many memorable songs from this album.

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

“Indie” rock bought and paid for by record label executives. Technically sound musicianship, well written songs and well produced. But not an ounce of soul anywhere on this album. I don’t look forward to hearing again the next time I visit a dentist’s waiting room.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

A couple of well known bangers, but otherwise pretty dated Brit Pop. Love the Beatles but this may be their least interesting album.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Solid, melodious, harmonious.

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Really strong song writing on this one. Don’t know how often I’ll come back for casual listening, but I reckon I’ll be in the mood to listen to this bad boy all the way through.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Liked this more than I thought I would. Extremely unique. Some songs end in an entirely different place and style than they start, but the transition somehow works. Weird music but I liked it.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

The Undertones

3/5

Dead Kennedys meet The Beach Boys?

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

It’s fine

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Some of my favorite songs of all time are on this album. Love the MGMT sound. But the hits are hits and some of the misses are pretty boring in comparison.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

A fine album, I just don’t see myself ever listening to it again. Strong lyricism, vocals and musical arrangement. Just not for me.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Music is the universal language and these guys can jam.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Dark beats, depressing lyrics. Delicious.

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Why use many chord when few do trick?

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

4/5

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Solid album. Not their best but an enjoyable listen.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

It’s a jam, with some classics. Overall a solid 3/5.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

The xx

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

This one goes out to all my hipsters in the mountains. Gentle and delightful. A real chill listen.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

Pretenders

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

Janis is an undeniable talent. But as a whole this album plays like generic, uninspired blues.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

A lot of classics on this album but overall pretty middle of the road pop.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Some classics on here, feels like an album that helped define West Coast rap. Probably a 4 without the skits all over the album. I’m glad that’s a thing of the past.

Guero

Beck

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Hell yeah. *bass lines intensify* HELL YEAH.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Decent rock album of its era. Some of the heavy harmony portions feel like they’re sung by the muppets.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Not personally a big reggae fan, but it’s clear this is a great album of that genre. Just won’t be coming back to much on this one, personally.

1977

Ash

2/5

Boring.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

1/5

You almost have to be impressed by their earnest commitment to producing an album with the worst singer I have ever heard. Some of the music itself is technically sound, and enjoyable at times. Overall this feels like a student project album and I don’t see how this makes the list.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Like a dictionary of future samples.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Very solid album here. Some fun rock, mixed with fun synth and other futuristic noises and beats. Association with the Twilight movies almost ruined this band for me but I’m glad I came back.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Fever Ray

4/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

The Clash

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5