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Album	You	Global	Diff
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3.01	+1.99
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.58	+1.42
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	5	3.72	+1.28
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	5	3.74	+1.26
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.79	+1.21
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	5	3.89	+1.11
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.92	+1.08
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	1	3.62	-2.62
The Band The Band	1	3.36	-2.36
B-52's The B-52's	1	3.3	-2.3
NEU! 75 Neu!	1	3.09	-2.09
Kala M.I.A.	1	2.91	-1.91
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	1	2.7	-1.7
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.64	-1.64
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.63	-1.63
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	1	2.54	-1.54
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.49	-1.49

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Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Hell of a pick for this on Election Day 2024. This album was released on Election Day 1992. Just neat.

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1-Star Albums (8)

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A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Chaotic, magical, masterful. Part 1 is my favorite.

The Band

1/5

Tracks one and two are nothing special. This album feels like it’s gonna be a miss for me. Two more in - this barely qualifies as listenable. Who is this for? Jemima surrender - worst track so far. Jesus. Penultimate track - if i never listen to the band again, it will be too soon I don’t hate king harvest lyrically Okay real talk. Vocals and organ are insufferable on this album.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

One recognizable song. Very consistent sound throughout. Nowhere as good as mellon.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Astounding. I am familiar with a lot of these tracks, and there’s a good reason for their popularity, but even the lesser tracks are still pretty good. A pleasure to listen to, with fantastic production and orchestration.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Astounding for the time euro electronica. Very slow. Very German.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

I’m familiar with the title track, but not so much with the rest of this album. I can hear a lot of other artists in here. The doors, jethro Tull, king crimson, David Bowie. Acid rock and jam bands. Absolutely enjoy the variation on god rest ye merry gentlemen.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

This is the brassiest brass to ever brass. Track c is my favorite. Chaotic and fast but great. The instruments sing in an almost human voice. Dagnabbit.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

I love this album. So many songs I already know and never realized this was from the same album. Rightly recognized for the masterpiece it is.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Ambient indeed.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Early emo. Can see a lot how it develops. But not for me.

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

John Riley has some interesting parts. I like the byrds from other songs, but none of these strike that same chord.

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Easy to see what evolved of this into punk. Seeing what musical styles they draw from is neat. This isn’t far removed from og rock n roll. I love the ska-esque tracks more than anything else. I am a sucker for horns. Mostly unimpressive. Drags on too long and the vocalist is not cut out for this. Until the last two tracks. I know train in vain, but revolution rock is a real standout on this.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

The best to ever do it.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Not for me, nothing standout.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

I would be able to tolerate the choir and string synths in an 80s album but it just feels stale here. There is potential, but nothing impressive

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

One star per good track

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Race for the prize is great. Flaming lips are one of those artists that on paper I should love but just don’t.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Two good tracks. Funky though.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Best track: lil ghetto boy A few skips

The Stone Roses

2/5

Surprisingly modern album. Some very 80s sound, but grunge. And it really feels like indie dream pop.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1/5

This sucks.

Paul Simon

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Smooth

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Hell of a pick for this on Election Day 2024. This album was released on Election Day 1992. Just neat.

California

American Music Club

3/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Only one good song

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

A worse the cure

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Fantastic

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

I like Dylan. His voice is for telling stories. But I never understood the production decision to leave in very messy accompaniment. With just acoustic, or live, it’s fine. But for me it detracts.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

A complete waste of time. 10 skipped / 10

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

1/5

Why

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

I mean

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Jazzy

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Kala

M.I.A.

1/5

Paper planes can’t save this from 1 star. Every other is a skip.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Blues to start. I’m not the biggest fan of this right off the bat. Listening to the mono version just because the panning is obnoxious. The rest of the album feels like this too. Very stones-like and the stones aren’t fantastic. They’re passable with a few good songs.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Fantastic voice, amazing music, very long

NEU! 75

Neu!

1/5

First 3 tracks: slow, comfortable, peaceful Hero: generic u2 sounding music with jaggers rotting corpse as the vocalist. Awful. E-musik: long psychedelic rock intro that has so much promise and build in tempo. And fails to deliver anything. If it had anything of interest this album would score higher. After eight: more like hero. Gross. Highway tune beat with what can best be described as moaning. No real progression. I listened to the whole thing, which should give this an extra half point versus some of this dreck.