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Album	You	Global	Diff
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	5	3.24	+1.76
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	4	2.39	+1.61
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	5	3.45	+1.55
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	5	3.5	+1.5
Don't Stand Me Down Dexys Midnight Runners	4	2.6	+1.4
Konnichiwa Skepta	4	2.73	+1.27
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	4	2.92	+1.08
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	4	2.93	+1.07

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.72	-1.72
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.55	-1.55
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	2	3.22	-1.22
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	2	3.11	-1.11

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Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

if you, like me, enjoyed the contributions of the South African artists on this album but hated whenever Paul Simon opened his mouth, i would recommend "The Indestructible Beat of Soweto," a compilation record from the same year that gives you a taste of what the township jive scene sounded like without the tedious poetic musings of some guy from New Jersey.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

it's not a good sign when you ask yourself "is it over yet?" during a 30 minute album.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

it was really good, i enjoyed the deep cuts more than the singles. kinda annoys me that the best song on the album features elton john (british) pretending to be indigenous but other than that i liked it.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

finally, some good fucking food. classic old school hip hop with killer beats and super fun lyrics, featuring the lost arts of beatboxing and turntablism. i even liked the excursions into rock instrumentation (except the aerosmith feature, which i didn't care for. overexposure, maybe). all the hits are on side A but i found myself liking side B more. this was a delight overall. more like this, please?

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

eyup, that's queen.

The Stooges

3/5

pretty neat, you can definitely tell that punk as a genre owes a lot to this one. i liked "We Will Fall" most tho, very atmospheric and spooky. side b isn't as memorable imho.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

side A and the closer are pretty killer but most of side B drags it down. kinda makes me wanna listen to a normal philly soul record instead.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

the final phase of the transition from old school to new school. super neat to hear more complex 90s style verses over late 80s production. kinda wish theyd lay off the misogyny but whatever.

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

"Cult of Personality" is an all-timer and there is no disputing this. the rest of side A is just kinda fine. then on side B they crank up the eclecticism and it becomes lots of fun.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

this record introduced me to one of my favorite bands, so yeah i'd say i like it! not my favorite of theirs, but hard to deny da classics

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

kind of shocked by how much i liked this record, i didn't really have any expectations for dexys beyond the big hit. the whole record is really fun but the standouts for me include "This Is What She's Like", the interpolation of "Werewolves of London," and literally any time a twangy country guitar appears. i actually thought the spoken word was fun, too. it was a nice throughline. good on ya, dexys.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

really awesome record.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

good background music for minecraft. i like the dub-sounding parts. otherwise forgettable

Tracy Chapman

4/5

maybe the first one of these pulls to make me cry? i can sense that if i was, like, a big folk enthusiast, this would be a perfect ten. even so, this is really killer. good show, ms. chapman.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

i enjoyed this more than i thought i would, but it didn't particularly blow my mind. the shorter/more focused jams were fun, they kinda started to lose me with the 10+ minute tunes.

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

pop music was scientifically perfected exactly twice: in Motown in the 1960s and Scandinavia in the 1990s. "Born To Be With You" sees brilliant producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector attempting to sneak a third one in between those two. the key word here is "attempting." there are a few interesting choices here and there but it largely ends up being both generic. the production also ends up smothering Dion, who is technically the headliner on this one. he only gets a chance to do his thing on two tracks, which, naturally, are the ones Spector did not produce. i can see myself coming back to it, if only for how odd it is.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

knew this one was a /mu/ classic so i had low expectations but yeah this is pretty cool actually. very trippy, very hazy, very Beach Boys-y. "Summertime Clothes" makes me want to frolic in a field.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

yup, love me some Otis

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

5/5

Public Enemy goes hardcore!!! i like their other stuff pretty well but this is exactly what i'd been wanting from them! i think i literally never stopped grooving my first time listening. utterly phenomenal

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

did not love the last Zeppelin album i listened to but this one is pretty cool. i like the part in "You Shook Me" where Robert Plant makes his voice drop off like an air raid siren winding down

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

fine i guess but mostly makes me wish i was listening to Rubber Soul instead

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

didnt love this one the first time i checked it out but it really shines the second go around. still not my favorite Quest record for a few reasons; Tip's flow is pretty basic compared to his later work, Phife is barely present, and the lyricism is pretty edgeless. but goddamn its hard to dislike the production. overall, very good, but i know they're capable of better.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

i like the album cover a lot. the music is pretty cool too. i bet this blew some minds back in '79, not a lot of pop music sounded like this back then. its still pretty cool in a post-synthpop world tho, the compositions are surprisingly spooky and i love the sound of those old synths. but mostly i love that album cover #mypyramid

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

not nearly as bad as the reviews would make you believe. you get some questionable lyrics occasionally, but for what it is, it's damn good. mrs. Lemper's voice is killer and the arrangements are real pretty. its greatest sin is being a little overly long, but "Scope J." is a good reward for you patience. you've just gotta meet it where it's at.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

i'd love to veto this one but i already knew it and loved it before he came out as a literal goosestepping nazi. the music is phenomenal, but in the face of the shit he's said and done it does not matter. his downfall is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. fuck Kanye and fuck you for making me think about him. if you've never heard this one before, skip it and spare yourself the cognitive dissonance. or just pirate it so he doesn't get paid off of your streams.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

hey, i know this one! probably my second favorite Beatles-related thing or adjacent project. impressively, the length does not bother me. i think its adorable that he wrote a love song for his fan club. i wish i could give half stars here cuz this is a 4.5 out of 5 if there ever was one. oh well

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

reminds me alot of "The Madcap Laughs," key difference being that this one has a country twang. the freaked out rumbling psych rock closer is cool

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

classic rock radio fodder. who give a shit

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

had no idea who Elvis Costello was or what he did before this and yeah its pretty cool. its very much Rock And Roll which is oddly refreshing to be honest. as i understand he has a lot of stuff on this list so i'm looking forward to that.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

eyup that is some classic country music. i liked the closer and the Dolly Parton cover

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

i liked this one quite a bit more than the last Kinks record. trippy and very fun

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

fine, but im a lil tired of all the british invasion stuff

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

fun. the sample for "Workinonit" by J Dilla was a jumpscare.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

4/5

my first grime record. the beats are pretty ripper and once i got used the british accent i enjoyed the rapping as well. def gonna give this a few more spins

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

love me some Surfers