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Album	You	Global	Diff
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	5	2.35	+2.65
Sulk The Associates	5	2.36	+2.64
OK Talvin Singh	5	2.57	+2.43
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	5	2.84	+2.16
Quiet Life Japan	5	2.85	+2.15
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	5	2.86	+2.14
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.93	+2.07
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	5	3.05	+1.95
The Visitors ABBA	5	3.2	+1.8

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.76	-2.76
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	1	3.73	-2.73
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	1	3.7	-2.7
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
With The Beatles Beatles	1	3.66	-2.66
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.49	-2.49
The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones	1	3.25	-2.25
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	1	3.19	-2.19
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	1	3.14	-2.14
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.14	-2.14

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	5
Talking Heads	3	4.67
Black Sabbath	2	5

5-Star Albums (38)

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Sulk

The Associates

5/5

hidden gem goth Sparks freakout hell yeah 10/10

5 likes

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

5/5

what is music if not organized stimming

3 likes

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

go white boy go!

2 likes

The Next Day

David Bowie

5/5

David Bowie IS brat 10/10

1 likes

1-Star Albums (14)

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

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

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Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

remembered this as repetitive and rudimentary if fun...surprised to find its actually dynamic, muscular, playful...production somehow deeply of the late 80s but ahead of its time in willingness to get tacky/cantankerous...the Boys do their thing, never been more endearing 8/10

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

an ugly, obsolete cultural artifact...weirdly enough made me appreciate the importance of more poignant, specific lyrics (especially to evoke that melancholic vibe i crave) because this has virtually nothing genuine to say...endless filler over a repetitive, tinny mush of compressed power chords 2/10

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

some great beats from RZA but that's about all that's ever appealed to me about this project...GZA just isn't that unique or compelling of a solo performer or writer, honestly Ghostface is the only Wu-Tang alum that's ever managed to strike me...boom bap classic that never hits my ears as any greater than enjoyable 6/10

Van Halen

4/5

gold standard of pop rock // warmest guitar tone of all time...i fucking love Brown Sound and the melodies and swing across Van Halen's debut are incredible, only caveat is it falls off a bit in the last third but forever One of the Good Ones of Dad Rock 8/10

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

agreeably well-crafted and psychedelic but not really my cup of tea 6/10

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

proof that Van Halen needed to happen...i'm sorry but i just think 70s rock that doesn't aim for heavier sounds or more progressive arrangements falls into an almost preemptive sense of lame nostalgia...there's this sense they're aiming to capture the cool and sensuality of early rock n' roll and that more often than not just makes me feel sleepy...that being said i did develop an appreciation for the songcraft even if the sound itself never works for me 4/10

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

5/5

immediately one of the best sonic experiences i've had in quite some time...never heard Gabriel before and regret pinning him as like a really boring mainstream pop guy this is not that hufauhe

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

psychedelic is always gonna be at a disadvantage but the sheer inventiveness of S.F. Sorrow won me over...a smorgasbord of sonic experimentation and surprisingly heavy in places 8/10

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

lo and behold it's one of the best albums i've ever heard and my entryway into a new genre! like side b is great but side a is maybe the best run in the history of music hufdhufdj...baroque, poetic, vibrant, melancholic, warm, amazing 10/10

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

1/5

middling psych rock as it is but the electric jug pushes this into unlistenable territory...like not even in a gauging the music way it genuinely gives me anxiety jifdufdu 2/10

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

madcap collection of tracks, absolutely loveable and so clearly the blueprint now that i'm more familiar with new wave...but could it be a little shorter? probably 8/10

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

neurodivergent anthems...probably my favorite Heads album in its effortlessness, never feels like anything is trying to impress and the coziness of the soundscape and hyper-specificity of the lyricism gets right at my heart 10/10

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

5/5

another genre i've heard a lot from and loved for a long time but never fully delved into...Holiday's tender, pained vocals never cease to amaze 10/10

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

5/5

elated to have been forced by this project to give Anohni another shot...cuz this is instantly one of my favorite albums ever hufhufduh...somehow despite my usual aversion to singer-songwriter/soul-adjacent music this makes me want to know everything about that world, some of the most achingly beautiful and affirming music ahhh 10/10

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

1/5

cracker music 2/10

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

initially struck me as kinda flat but as i kept listening it blossomed...major, one of the most stunning and immaculately produced albums...i love being goth 10/10

The xx

2/5

aint thought about these guys in ages uhhh...minimal in a way that kinda just floats out the other ear, i get why this made sense in 2009 but not why people made this 4/10

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

i got a mad need to wiggle 10/10

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

this guy is so fucking wild bro 6/10

Metallica

2/5

Talvin Singh

5/5

i have very little to go on here in terms of reference points but it turns out this guy is the missing link between late Siouxsie, early Bjork, and 2000s Madonna...true world music in the sense that it brings any and everything together in a blissful sonic landscape 10/10

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

remarkably relaxing but like, a bit twee for my tastes? i dunno i'm tired 8/10

Bert Jansch

4/5

i keep getting this beautiful Relaxcore music and honestly thank you the first week back at school is very stressful 8/10

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

insanely ahead of its time if morally dubious...that being said i admire this more than i enjoy its sonic textures 6/10

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

1/5

get a job 2/10

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

not the heaviest or best or vibiest of their many great records but certainly the sturdiest...always a pleasure 10/10

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

my first impression of The Grateful Dead...perfectly fine 6/10

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

pleasant! if more anonymous than that fucking cover suggests 6/10

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

continuing my mid streak with a perfectly fine slice of blue-eyed soul 6/10

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

proto-Avril...i thought this was gonna be a singles album but it's surprisingly back-loaded! just like my ex-wife 8/10

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

sparkly 6/10

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

goddamn i gotta get deeper into r&b 8/10

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

peak music 10/10

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

not only one of my least favorite Bowie records but now my least favorite of the berlin trilogy 10/10

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

i love Simz but i still think she didn't really come into her zone until the next album...it's good shit tho! 6/10

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

this makes me proud to be british 4/10

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

5/5

mid morning music but peak post-12 hour shift music 10/10

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

toaster music 6/10

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

too long and puritanical for me to really enjoy but it did get me interested in Lenny!

Sulk

The Associates

5/5

hidden gem goth Sparks freakout hell yeah 10/10

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

one of those albums that's so massively influential and lives up to the hype but has also been answered and challenged and surpassed to such a degree i can never really love it like that 8/10

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

1/5

return of cracker...bro makes the most middling sounds you've ever heard and the crowd loses their fucking mind 2/10

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

by 60s/70s standards this is a proto punk blend of the Mothers and Residents but a more apt comparison somehow is Ween...explosive, playful theatricality that morphs from genre to genre, serious to silly in an effortless cycle...i don't love all 16 songs but the spirit and execution of this thing is so uniquely beautiful 8/10

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

i can't even finish this saccharine boomer future predator shit 1/10

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

it took a decade but i finally fully love this thing this thing this 10/10

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

go white boy go!

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

one of the weaker albums by the greatest band in the world...incredibly back loaded somehow 8/10

Iron Maiden

3/5

highs are pillars of early metal but as a whole this feels half-baked and too steeped in 70s hard rock to really fly 6/10

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

mostly much more memorable and intricate than anticipated but then it's an hour long and has Milky Cereal 6/10

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

1/5

2004 called, they said uhh they're running outta you 1/10

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

never quite lives up to the promise of the first track but i did clean tf out of the bathroom to this and i'll cherish that memory 6/10

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

sounds like a more interesting Flaming Lips mixed with a less interesting Flaming Lips 6/10

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

surprised how much i like this...always been big on White's singles but never his full albums, with any project...but idk something in the grab bag of songs here clicked, feels relaxed and fun and unambitious in an inviting way...i dunno, maybe i'm just getting Old Enough for this shit 8/10

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

overall really fucking enjoyable but i can't help but grow a bit tired of endless jamming...the best bits are tightly arranged and the worst are when they noodle for like 15 mins straight...also i don't really feel angst in Gregg's voice, at least not live 8/10

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

transcends music, hype, legacy, reputation, influence...a work of pure magic and motivation to revisit Crimson's discog now that my ears work 10/10

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

flawless 10 track album but there's 20 and half of them have something horrifically misogynist or literal blowjob noises 8/10

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

the rambling slew of half-formed songs here appeal a lot more to me now than back in the day...that being said i still think it lacks the unique punch and memorability of Jack's best albums 8/10

1989

Taylor Swift

5/5

still comes off like the most impersonal of Swift's records and thus a lesser favorite but also peak imperial pop era and probably the most compellingly loveable album ever made...i angry drove to "Bad Blood" today 10/10

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

bully rock <<< bullied rock 4/10

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

lord help me i'm going back to the old me 8/10

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

felt better in a cd player 6/10

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

Arctic Monkeys

1/5

fucking sucks 2/10

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

and suddenly my ears perk up for country rock 10/10

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

5/5

strikes the perfect balance bw weird and groovy; chaotic neurtral weaponized dissonance...puts the post in post-punk 10/10

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

David Bowie

5/5

okay maybe i've wrongly dismissed this as overrated...certainly Bowie did better stuff but this remains anthemic, existential, primal sing-along...i get it okay? 10/10

Ananda Shankar

3/5

conceptually cool if a little dated in its idea of both western and eastern popular music...pleasant background noise 6/10

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

solid grocery music 6/10

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

used to be an all-timer and now it's just kinda...there...6/10

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

The Idiot's glue-huffing little brother...which is to say it's fun and good but a bit inessential when Bowie's actual Berlin trilogy exists 8/10

The Rolling Stones

1/5

wankers the lot of 'em 2/10

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

i am of the opinion this is a step back in The Cure's progression...a stab at darkness they wouldn't reconcile with their knack for shiny melodies until Disintegration (and x100 in the 90s)...so like, it's okay ig 6/10

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

i kinda fuck heavy w guitar rock radiohead...8/10

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right ab- 6/10

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

always a fine time but i'm too close to my last listen to really enjoy 6/10

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

so this is what father john misty sounds like to guys who still talk about social justice warriors 8/10

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

5/5

I was listening to morrissey when the power came back...10/10

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

5/5

what is music if not organized stimming

With The Beatles

Beatles

1/5

nightmare blunt rotation 2/10

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

what a whiny twat 4/10

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Mystic spiral did it first 4/10

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

more like The Who Cares 4/10 (that drumming fucking carries!!)

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

i find marshall mathers the washed up provocateur desperately trying to maintain relevance through a mix of autocritique and deflection infinitely fascinating whereas eminem at peak cultural relevance is maybe the least compelling artist of all time with the worst influence over the next 25 years of music (flat, shallow, boasting an insecure disdain for the listener) 1/10

Infected

The The

3/5

art hoe billy idol! 6/10

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

remembered this as middling and overly sanitized but it's actually beautiful and tender and sprawling? 8/10

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

maybe white ppl can make music 10/10

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

delicious glam crack music 8/10

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

(vocals-fronted mixing aside) this is a gorgeous sounding, fantastically arranged delight front to back! 8/10

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

unstoppable joy 10/10

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

did not realize the band that made sweet home alabama was this multifaceted and full of amazing compositions...8/10

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

certain this rages in the club but it's no DJ Sabrina 8/10

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

you can't be talking like that white baby 2/10

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

i dunno probably changed my perception of music early on...packs so much punch and joy and attitude and melodies and riffs into 34 mins it's actually a miracle 10/10

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

a perfectly fun time at the squealing factory 6/10

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

forever hard to explain how this is the Best Album Ever Made for 7 tracks before it devolves into being merely amazing...still clears everything else on this journey so far and it's like the 6th best Siouxsie 10/10

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

some pretty sounds in here but overall feels like a lotta vague doodling with noise...tempted to check out 12 Jazz Funk Greats though that looks cool 4/10

Quiet Life

Japan

5/5

one of the coolest sounding albums but beyond that...so lush and full of life and bursting with love...beyond words...man...10/10

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

a match made in heaven 8/10

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

*brain fog clearly providing a brief moment of lucidity and good taste* this is an Objectively Perfect Album

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

a bigger sound but significantly less inspired 6/10

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

officially ccr pilled 10/10

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

solid if a little unmemorable

808 State

4/5

and just like that i'm into acid house...also 1989??? brain-breaking 8/10

Ramones

5/5

lean and efficient just like my women 10/10

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

no but you're not my least favorite band either 6/10

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

in 2014 i played guitar in one practice session for a band consisting of a drummer who insisted we sound exactly like this album and his roommate who documented everything in case we got famous 8/10

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

5/5

i am so fucking goth i can't stand straight 10/10

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

immaculate bass 6/10

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

immaculate eternal lucid dreaming goat shadowcasting on cloud nine 10/10

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

will never get over how uncompromising even his early stuff can be 8/10

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

maybe doug had a point 4/10

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

soaring scorching painful and affirming and still somehow the 5th best album the Pumpkins made before 2007 10/10

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

very pretty and calm but never managed to move me 6/10

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

5/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

5/5

David Bowie IS brat 10/10

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

almost got me this time 6/10

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

happy to report one of my earliest exposures to mpb still goes crazy 10/10

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

after my Beatles run this is kinda delightfully unambitious 6/10

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

benefits greatly when viewed as an individual work; this has always paled in comparison to Miles' later work...the mid to late period is just too varied and complex and electric...but i have to admit i was wrong to write off something this subdued and exceptional in that mode...with the exception of his own In a Silent Way the man himself has never been more singularly compelling, pulling off a record in which the solo is so consistently front and center aint exactly easy! 10/10

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

maybe the height of sharp-edged alternative...reminds me sonically of late Oxbow, in that there's a crunchy brittleness to the guitars thrust up by warm basstones...it feels like a soft slap to the face, quite the vehicle for Skin's mix of hard and honeyed vocals...a tasty, well-rounded desert

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5