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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Who Sell Out The Who	5	3	+2
Let It Be The Replacements	5	3.25	+1.75
Smash The Offspring	5	3.37	+1.63
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.63	+1.37
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.67	+1.33
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.73	+1.27
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.76	+1.24
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	5	3.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
evermore Taylor Swift	1	3.03	-2.03
Cafe Bleu The Style Council	1	2.87	-1.87
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	1	2.72	-1.72
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	2	3.35	-1.35
Clandestino Manu Chao	2	3.22	-1.22
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	2	3.01	-1.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
David Bowie	3	4.67
Michael Jackson	3	4.33

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Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones · 1 likes

4/5

great album, aside from brown sugar having the most suspect lyrics of all time. weird drug induced trolling or something, i dunno. nice to hear stuff from them that isn’t just Greatest Hits

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple · 1 likes

3/5

it was alright, again not really the album i would have picked from them. songs are long as hell but they’re fun and loud. just missing some of that juice they had later on

Let It Be

The Replacements · 1 likes

5/5

stone cold classic imo, simultaneously rough and lo fi and impeccably polished songwriting. that closer is so good too

1-Star Albums (3)

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Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

without you and coconut back to back is wild.

Foo Fighters

3/5

pretty much predicted late 90s altrock/postgrunge, for better and worse. catchy. i kind of like the last few tracks for some reason

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

very catchy, good filler but the egregious use of fm synth ages it compared to something like thriller or off the wall. it sounds very mid to late 80s. smooth criminal fucking slaps tho

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

good i guess, but didn’t hit me too hard. don’t hate it! couple great songs in there.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

great album, aside from brown sugar having the most suspect lyrics of all time. weird drug induced trolling or something, i dunno. nice to hear stuff from them that isn’t just Greatest Hits

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

a bit repetitive feeling sometimes, but also he kind of invented rock and roll so we can excuse it. hype, exciting, a little funky, and he’s also a great singer

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

too long! songs and album! not my favorite electric era bob dylan, but there's a good amount of classics that get bogged down by 11+ minute tracks.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

some filler around the middle, but otherwise amazing and full of straight bangers. perfect hybrid of rave music/big beat and punk. rip keith flint

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

stone cold classic. liked the back half of disc 2 even better this time through. understands the totality of childhood/teenage experience more than a lot of go-tos, down to the edgelording. no reason a 4xlp should be this listenable.

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

a prototype of a truly great band. there’s a few songs that rank with their best stuff but it’s just less consistent and confident than all of the stuff that comes afterwards.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

vibes-oriented

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

patrick bateman-ass band. there’s just a lot of effete jazzy instrumentation and sometimes they forget about writing any decent hooks. a gospel having white boy rapping almost sent me into total despair. at its worst makes steely dan look like gg allin. there’s a couple good songs and it picks up a bit towards the end but this was a real like-hate album for me.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

it was alright, again not really the album i would have picked from them. songs are long as hell but they’re fun and loud. just missing some of that juice they had later on

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

it’s good, intermittently interesting, probably better heard very loud at a rave or on some kind of substance. i think he has more interesting stuff he’s released later on, but this one doesn’t really hold up to other big beat stuff like the prodigy or basement jaxx.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

5/5

this was a staple album on my zune back in the day. the first half is basically immaculate, the second drags a bit till the end. the concept is fun, just nice to hear great straightforward rock songs before they get caught up in the whole rock opera thing later on.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

never liked this one as much as his stooges stuff but still in that vibe, and has a good few stone cold classic songs. i like the idiot more, but i do really enjoy the grungy aesthetic of this one.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

man this just sucks and i really like post punk. instrumentals are cool but aimless and not even particularly unique for the era. the vocals are just not doing anything for me. bleh

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

was vaguely familiar with her from that o brother where art thou soundtrack, but this is lovely! at some point i'll revisit and spend more time with it but surprised it had me sitting down and enjoying a 12+ minute track with that closer. not a big country person but alt country and alt folk i'm pretty into.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

it's fine! i mean there's a couple truly great songs here but I never really thought of Queen as an Album band anyways. some of the songs on here are a bit forgettable, but there's still some good stuff in the filler. and the band is good enough to make up for some any less engaging material.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

every listen i appreciate it a little more. just delightfully strange, chaotic, and out of tune. the lyricism also feels a little less opaque the more i listen, but always a sense of mystery to them. i dunno, i really like this guy and this is one of his tightest albums.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

c'mon. c'mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

fun! i like this genre of music a lot, good example of lo-fi grungy pop, reminds me a lot of the big star-inspired bands of the time like the replacements. might like it a bit more after a couple more listens, idk.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

more fun than i thought it would be, though i feel like a lot of prog rock it kind of loses the plot sometimes with regards to having actually compelling hooks. i like the title track mostly but side 2 is way more inconsistent, though tbh i like the goofier tracks. like the prog rock equivalent of skits in rap albums hehe.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

fun, solid, technically apt. maybe a smidge on the long side, some songs aren't as memorable as others. worth listening to to appreciate the reference in waynes world 1.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

love hearing this one, also a common play on the tommie f zune. not quite as innovative as his later stuff but it reminds me a lot of the bend in that it’s an artist basically getting a perfect, more conventional album out before REALLY getting weird

1984

Van Halen

4/5

singles are great, filler is usually fine. evh is fun in how he oscillates between rhythm guitar restraint and absolute shredder wank.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

it's fine. not actively bad or anything but really not my thing, and not inspiring enough to make myself want to be INTO that thing.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

already rated this! fantastic singles, decent to good filler, production definitely aged more noticeably compared to other MJ classics but i like the sound of it

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

this is like a 3.5 for me, i just like hearing steely dan. not many jaw droppers like their other classics though, just solid thru out

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

really cool new wave with a ton of great content aside from the singles! might add this to the rotation.

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

a good chunk of this isn't super compelling stuff (the intro/closer straight up kill the momentum), but there's a few straight bangers here, and overall when the vibe works i can just leave it on and be happy.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

weird, delightful album that runs a little long, and has me curious about cee lo green's other stuff. not really as good as some of his singles or other collabs i've heard though.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

some memorable stuff and a good latter-day album. dunno if i'd consider it classic enough to be a required listen or whatever, but i didn't mind hearing it at all.

Let It Be

The Replacements

5/5

stone cold classic imo, simultaneously rough and lo fi and impeccably polished songwriting. that closer is so good too

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

i appreciate this album more on every listen but i still don’t fully vibe with it as much as remain in light or speaking in tongues. just not quite as many compelling hooks, though it is at least dancy/propulsive.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

❤️ no misses

Black Sabbath

3/5

definitely enlightening to hear an entire genre being created in real time, but they're not quite there yet. the random blues noodling can be really distracting, and the songwriting isn't really as tight as a lot of their stuff from paranoid. they're still figuring it out.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

4.5. some of these songs absolutely fucking rip.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

kinda swaggy for boomer tunes

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

fun!!!

The Joshua Tree

4/5

bonded a little more with side b this time, first few songs still absolutely the strongest of the bunch.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

nto my thing

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

lives up to the title

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

solidly mid, but desperately wants to be a 5/5. this guy's also a complete creep, and if this is as good as it gets i'm good.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

not my favorite cure album, but interesting to see the transition starting for them.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

pretty fun actually

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

love

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

good!

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

pretty interesting, might need to take more time to listen though before I totally grok it.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

kind of long and samey but pretty good

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

the only flaw with this is that it's missing some genuinely hilarious cobain bits on the video version.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

very weird and cool actually. bluesy with new wave elements? hell yeah

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

corpus christi carol is a wild choice to cover lmao

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

pretty good. gigantic is probably the best song on it.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

not my favorite tom waits thing. i think he does the whole spoken word vibey sleazy thing better in the later albums. didn't hate it, but really didn't feel it otherwise.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

nothing super exciting, but pretty decent.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

sensible fun

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

very fully realized for a debut album.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

pretty great, pretty short too. how many songs even make it past 3 minutes? crazy stuff.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

fine, good, i'm not super engaged with the songwriting but the instrumentation can be interesting, probably a sign of what would come with pet sounds huh?

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

kinda nice with it actually. not a lot of filler either!

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

it's really not my style, i don't really bond with straightforward punk that much but there's no fear or disdain of actual songcraft which is nice. has a few bangers. some of the songs are samey, but the singles especially have really unusual melodic bits (at least for hardcore) that satisfy my ears. and i think the vocals give it a nice edge that the contemporary pop punk bands of the day didn't have. not bad!

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

pretty gud

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

this has like two songs that aren't great, but otherwise you could release this at any point in time and it would change the trajectory of human history.

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

kind of reminds me of the verve? pretty good!

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

there's some highlights here. definitely more of a tears for fears-adjacent band than i ever figured they were. not bad!

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

hell yeah.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

not my favorite springsteen but has a few highlights

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

couple good tracks.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

2/5

not a big reggae guy, this is pretty ok. just really didn't grab my interest at all

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

the 16 minute drum solo at the end kind of lost me, even if the musicianship is very good. it was probably really cool when you were in the room, just doesn't translate to a record. but i love the call-response at the penultimate song. some excellent highlights here!

Yeezus

Kanye West

3/5

all the daft punks and gesaffelsteins and arcas and bon ivers and frank oceans in the world cannot hide the fact that this dude is NOT spittin.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

probably four of the most important hip-hop songs ever made, and a bunch of other stuff no one cares about. something 2 dance 2 is underrated.

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

the piano playing in champagne problems sounds like it was made by an ai. this sounds like any 00's-early 10s indie folk polished to a perfect sheen, no seams, no missed notes, no raw performance that would make it sound human. which misses the entire point of that style of music. did her and antonoff keep aaron dessner shoved in a walk-in freezer, this does not sound like high violet. how did the haims get sucked in to this. why are bon iver and matt berninger here other than to lend her their credibility. need a palate cleanser after this.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

not quite as good as heroes imo

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

it was ok

Pretenders

3/5

some good songs on here, probably need a relisten

The Velvet Underground