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Album	You	Global	Diff
2112 Rush	5	3.39	+1.61
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.43	+1.57
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Brown Sugar D'Angelo	4	2.92	+1.08
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.32	-1.32
Henry's Dream Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.11	-1.11
The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers	2	3.06	-1.06
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	1	2.03	-1.03

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Illmatic

Nas

5/5

The best rap album all time

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Banger after banger

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Full of classics. Title track and Levon are my standouts

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Great album, messaging is great. Nothing beats old school rap. Ham n’ Eggs is my favorite

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Really good, feels heavily entwined with later descriptions of inner city living and effects of drugs

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Undeniably a great album and musically amazing, especially for 2002. I just hate Coldplay 😂

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Extremely influential album, you can hear how much this reflects in other popular music. Way ahead of its time!

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Great example of a live album being better than the studio!

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Another great from Curtis. So in Love is a banger

The Modern Lovers

2/5

Not my favorite but you can see how it shaped punk and grunge

Common

3/5

Great album, not usually a fan of hip hop and rap but this was poignant, varied, and sounds great

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Smooth as hell

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

An all timer. Self Esteem only hits harder and harder as I get older

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Not my scene but musically very good

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Not my vibe but slightly better than the other Nick Cave album

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

All timer

Blur

3/5

Kinda cool but not my style

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Kinda cool but not my style

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Very classic album. Clearly foundational to rock

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Had never heard of this band but love another reggae option aside from Marley

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Solid just not my style

2112

Rush

5/5

Top tier. 20 minute song is like a mini album

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

A difficult listen. Turned it off