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Album	You	Global	Diff
At Newport 1960	5	3.55	+1.45
Happy Sad	4	2.78	+1.22
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida	4	2.94	+1.06
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)	4	2.95	+1.05
Sheet Music	4	2.96	+1.04

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Album	You	Global	Diff
If I Should Fall From Grace With God	1	3.34	-2.34
Gris Gris	1	2.88	-1.88
Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
Different Class	2	3.42	-1.42
Safe As Milk	2	3.01	-1.01

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If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

1/5

It takes a very specific person to enjoy almost an hour of this. I am not that person.

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This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Not my thing. Okayish British punk rock but nothing really stood out to me and caught my attention. Probably great if this is what you're into but it's not for me.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Smooth, grooving easy rock tunes. Simple as.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

While I'm not huge on Punk, Dookie is a great album with many of Green Day's great hits, although I found the start of it to be somewhat weak compared to the rest.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

War

4/5

Sure it's quite Bono, but you can't deny the music is quite decent.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Decent enough, but don't really vibe with it.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Some of Oasis more notable and enjoyable hits, a very enjoyable listen. Anyway, there's Wonderwall.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Peace and love be with ya mon. Marley's signature reggae sound is on full display here.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

An awesome album, though I find it falters slightly towards the end. Promised you a miracle and Glittering prize are still great songs today.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Had to bring aerosmith for a song

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

1/5

It takes a very specific person to enjoy almost an hour of this. I am not that person.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

I hope this has the Puff Daddy version of the song and not that STING PIECE OF SHIT. FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Gris Gris

Dr. John

1/5

I... what? Maybe if I was roasted out of my mind I'd enjoy this but I was not and therefore I did not. Half an hour of nonsensical noise.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Songs written with a lot of heart to it, even if I felt like I was being preached to by a Christian choir group.

1999

Prince

4/5

It's a bit odd for me, for every song I'm indifferent on, there's a song I love too. I hate 1999 so much though that it's mere inclusion brings it down a star for me.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

A great experience all around. I didn't come into this expecting to like it but I happily listened to it multiple times over.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Nothing really notable except for the one song that was in Shrek.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

Started out really weak, but I grew to appreciate the later songs for what they are, weird for the sake of weird but still had a bit of musicality to them. Interesting album to say the least...

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

There was some real fucked up shit in that but I was entertained nonetheless, not to mention Em is a great performer regardless. Turns out you can rap about homosexuals and Vicodin and still sell records.

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

50 minutes of this guy muttering nonsense while sucking air through his teeth, with inconsequential pop musical writing. Nothing noteworthy.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

okay i guess

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Inoffensive, but not as exotic as I was expecting.

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Decent enough sounds, but I got bored halfway through. Not for me.

The Band

3/5

Not terrible

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Excellent guitar and composition, but I absolutely cannot stand the singing. Knights of Cydonia definitely still goes hard as fuck though.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

It's just good Big Beat club music. Interesting to see where they started. The first half of the album is definitely weaker than the second half though imo.

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Came into this expecting to hate it. And, while not groundbreaking, this turned out to become actually nice, plesant, easy listening.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Jazzy. Nice voice. Musically incomprehensible to me however.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Rating this one wasn't hard.

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

Standard sorta indie rock kind of affair. Doesn't speak to me.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

Good, interesting

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Not the worst weird album I've heard

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

You can rate this album, assuming you can get your fat, swollen, sweaty stumps of imbred fingers onto the vote button.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Eh, its Rap I guess. Not obnoxious but not my thing.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Mostly sounds like generic 50s surfer rock. Definitely before they had their own sound.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Used to hate REM, now I'm mostly indifferent give or take a few songs of theirs. I'm pretty indifferent about this album as a whole too.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

This is way longer than I anticipated, still excellent though.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Ramones

2/5

Plenty of great songs for a nostalgia-baiting, market chasing trailer for your 2010s overbudget corporate-designed movie/video game. Probably thrilling for it's time, but I don't think it holds up nowadays.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Easy to enjoy and listen to. Very pleasant.

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

A good listen all around that doesn't overdo it anywhere.

Fred Neil

3/5

Alright i guess

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Chill rap sorta thing. It's okay

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Snazzy and Jazzy. I wonder where this Frank Sinatra guy is now

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

It somehow seems a little more impactful when you play Jail songs within a Prison like that

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

The first half is a disappointing, mindless noise that is indiscriminatable. Very meh. I can't tell if the rest of the album was any good, or if I was just stockholm syndromed into mildly enjoying (or tolerating) it, but the second half was decent enough.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Interesting, but not really memorable in the slightest. I definitely wasn't expecting a cover of I got you babe though.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Pretty iconic, not much else to say that hasn't been said already by my peers.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

Of all the hiphop rap albums out there, this is certainly one of them.