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Album	You	Global	Diff
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	5	2.9	+2.1
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	5	2.92	+2.08
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	5	3.07	+1.93
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.28	+1.72
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Sulk The Associates	4	2.36	+1.64
Suicide Suicide	4	2.46	+1.54
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	5	3.56	+1.44
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	3	4.43	-1.43
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	2	3.13	-1.13
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	2	3.11	-1.11

5-Star Albums (10)

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Popular Reviews

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Seeing this album art as a kid, I assumed this was the hardest rock ever. As I got older, I realized that wasn’t what Meat Loaf was about. However listening to it now in its entirety, I gotta say, it rocks pretty hard. Easy 4/5. Could probably grow on me onto 5/5

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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Top notch boomer co-worker music

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

People love this and they’re not wrong

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Is AC/DC THE quintessential cock rock? Maybe? Ironically, once Brian Johnson stepped in for Bon Scott, it feels like we started getting less cock, more rock. Though now I wonder if this hadn’t already begun by Highway to Hell, which is mostly great up until it closes with Night Prowler. On its own, the concept of lurking around in the darkness isn’t necessarily bad. Ninjas, Owls, Batman, and the Northrop B-2 Spirit are all generally beloved. These are not the night prowling vibes which AC/DC embraces on this closing track. But maybe the willingness here to fully embrace and explore some of humanities more problematic corners is, in fact, a good thing. Even if it may not appeal to my own personal tastes. I was gonna give this five, then Night Prowler made me think four. Now I’m seeing an opposite argument for it to justify the five. But ultimately, this is just my opinion, and personally, Night Prowler lost me at the end, so four.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

I dunno, it was fine. Not really my jam

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Pretty great. Outtasite (Outta Mind) and Outta Mind (Outtasite) seem like they’re based on the melody from the Sesame Street theme. Which is wonderful

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Lime in the coconut

Sulk

The Associates

4/5

I swear I’ve heard the Club Country 12” Version sampled somewhere. Otherwise this was completely new to me. But based on the art and year, it was exactly what I was expecting and it kinda ruled

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Why do certified lowlifes make such great music?

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Maybe I like jazz now

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Le Freak is such a bop. Couple other decent ones on here too.

Django Django

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

There goes God In his sexy pants And his sausage dog Ugh

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Almost 5/5. Release is just a bit much at the end. Just quit while you’re ahead.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Some decent Bowie bops and a bunch of intriguing instrumentals

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Basket of Light is kinda lit. In some cases it almost feels like peak acoustic music before it all became electric.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

I don’t know shit about jazz. And honestly, the trumpet is probably not my favourite instrument. But I’m kinda starting to like it. Maybe don’t pay too much attention. Don’t overthink it. It’s pretty great.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

5/5

If aliens—or current toddlers—ever end up asking what rave sounds like, this is the album. It is to rave what Nevermind is to grunge. And 30 years later, rave as a concept, activity and culture, probably inarguably has the larger global significance. Plus, personally, I love this album. It sounds like being 14 again.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Cyndi Lauper and Chappelle Roan are the same template

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Pretty alright. Not my jam, but probably still a jam. 3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

So ubiquitous that not having experienced it at the time it somehow almost seems like a parody of itself. Though I guess that’s part of being iconic?

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Funky. Quirky. Lotta good beats. Solid 4/5 for sure. Could potentially see it growing on me to the point where it’s 5/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

I kinda put this one off, because I wasn’t getting a great vibe. But it’s groovy and bluesy. Consistently pretty solid. Feel like I recognize it as a record utilized in turntablism a fair bit

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Solid 90s (Brit?) rock I was not previously familiar with

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

This album rules

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

It’s Bowie?

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

A few recognizable hippie tracks on this one

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Didn’t enjoy this one as much as some of their other work

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Personally found this much less enjoyable than Holy Bible. Just kinda boring.

Suicide

4/5

Not at all what I was expecting. Kinda like ambient drone punk? Some social commentary that’s still sadly relevant almost 50 years later

Metallica

4/5

Absolute classic. Probably should be 5/5 but not quite maybe? Second half of the album loses a bit of steam. So like 4.9???

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

More engaging than I was expecting. It’s lighter, but still fun and uptempo for much of it. It may be soft rock, but it does indeed rock

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Honestly not as great as I remember it being. All I Wanna Do is still a bop, but the rest is just… fine…

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Listened to the expanded edition, as the only version of the recommended nine track (original?) I could find on streaming was the censored version. Honestly what is there to say about this? Game changing, genre defining, pure heat from beginning to end. Easy 5/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

Kinda interesting like blues-ish, honky tonk punk? I dunno.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Pretty alright 90s alt rock

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Pretty solid but not Petty’s best work

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

My dad played this album a lot in the car when I was a kid. Very fond memories

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

4/5

Unique. Pretty groovy. New to me.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Iconic country and western

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Kind of reminds me of Edgar Winter Group

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

It was fine

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

The worst thing I can say about this album is that it’s not Nevermind.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Pretenders

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Germs

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Kinda sounded like the soundtrack to a forgettable 80s movie

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

David Bowie

4/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

I know this is one of the most popular and seminal works in modern music history, probably music history generally by extension, but I just do not vibe with it. It’s kinda weak and a lot of the writing sounds like it’s been done by children who have just been introduced to poetry as a concept. It’s mostly fine but not my thing

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5