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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.28	+1.72
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.51	+1.49
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Van Halen Van Halen	5	3.62	+1.38
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37
Follow The Leader Korn	4	2.65	+1.35
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.7	+1.3
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	4	2.73	+1.27
Yeezus Kanye West	4	2.76	+1.24
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	5	3.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Heroes David Bowie	2	3.62	-1.62
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.47	-1.47
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	2	3.43	-1.43
Blue Lines Massive Attack	2	3.39	-1.39
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	2	3.39	-1.39
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	2	3.37	-1.37
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.31	-1.31
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	2	3.24	-1.24
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye	2	3.21	-1.21
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	2	3.07	-1.07

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Marvin Gaye	5, 2

5-Star Albums (15)

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The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Sounds a lot like ambient store music, or restaurant music, or music that would go in a big box office movie that I don’t want to see. Vocals are beautiful, tonally, some fun guitar riffs in the background but I have no idea of the structure of any of these songs are and I find that I just want to skip to the next song/turn it off. There are a lot of different styles blended in and I think that to me, is very overwhelming.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Love this album. I enjoy it even more as I’ve gotten older. David Gilmour just ripping that strat. So good.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Lots of familiar songs, upbeat, good vocals. Very blues/early rock and roll. Can definitely hear what the Beatles were influenced by.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Not a big Bowie fan, love the song heroes though. The instrumental tracks were strange

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Fun, very “futuristic”’of the time.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Bring in the funk! So fun. Really enjoyed this, have listened to parliament before but not as familiar with this album.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

I like this, listened to it a couple of times but not my favorite. I’d give it 3.5 stars if I could I think. Seems to be a pretty heavy album lyric wise, with more traditional, late 60s “hippie” type Americana, despite them being Canadian. Which isn’t always my favorite genre.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

I suspect this is actually beautiful and makes you feel, but I simply cannot listen to an album where every album is this depressing and somber. The instrumental’s are very ethereal and well mixed, the lyrics are poetry but I’m having a very hard time listening to something so bleak, especially without being in the mood. I struggle to rate something like this because musical and lyrically It seems exceptional but my personal taste is interfering in my ability to enjoy it.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Not my cup of tea. Gave me blood on the tracks vibes, which I love, but I kept thinking I’d rather listen to Dylan. Well written lyrics, beautiful vocals but was not in the mood for a sad/slow album. Has potential but just to listen for 24 hours for the first time I didn’t resonate with me.

The Band

4/5

Nice album, couple hits that still get plenty of play time on the radio.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

One of my favorite albums of all time. Absolutely love this. Lots of big hits/we’ll know songs.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

Sort of bland, some nice beats/instrumentals but nothing stuck out to me, nothing particularly catchy. Vocals, while being sung by different vocalists were mostly forgettable, nothing really drawing me and keeping me engaged.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

Not sure what’s going on here. Feels Ween adjacent but I enjoy ween more? Not vibing with this at all.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Amazing

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great album, very bluesy. Excellent vocals by Jagger

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Incredible vocals, way more strings and other instruments in the background filling out the tracks.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Hit after hit, beautiful arrangements and production. Excellent vocals and instrumentals.

Paul Simon

5/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Brit pop rock, but with good guitar riffs, almost psychedelic. Better than I expected

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Love this album, one of my all time favorites. No skips. Fun guitar riffs, great vocals

Van Halen

5/5

Absolute banger of an album. Insane guitar from EVH, DLR has incredible vocals. Incredible album that set up a 5+ year run for epic releases for VH. Changed the way guitarists thought about playing the guitar.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Really amazing instrumentals, beautiful orchestration. Way better than I thought. I was thinking cheesy 70s, but this was much better than my preconceived notions.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

I don’t know what’s happening but it sounds good.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Wasn’t sure what to expect with this one. Really amazing sound, crazy jazz with some rock mixed in. High quality sound, excellent musicians, it gave me like late 70s vibes but then I saw it was from 1968 and was more impressed.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Sick blues album. Great guitar.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Fun music, annoying vocals

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

Album was way darker than I remember, but incredible. Really good writing, great beats, feels timeless honestly. I guess bigger fans of Eminem would have more insight to the whole Shady character/storyline but I don’t know enough about that and the discography to speak much about that, but It’s an interesting thing/narrative to pay attention to in this second album.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Love PS. Was waffling between a 3 and 4 on this one. Feel it’s like a 3.5. Lovely album.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Giving this a 3 because I can’t really imagine ever seeking this out to listen to it again but I actually enjoyed it. Great story telling, simple but complementary music, nice voice.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

4.5 for me. Love this album. Great guitar playing.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Weird one. It’s like crooner/60s cheesy pop. I didn’t find it offensive, the orchestration was kind of cheesy but fun. The lyrics, same. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be funny or ironic or something? I went back and forth between a 2 and a 3. I think it’s mostly a 2.5.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Some songs I liked, some I didn’t. Not much flow to the album. I’ve never been a huge Motown type fan, but I recognize the talent and quality of music. Great vocals and bass.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

This didn’t connect with me at all. I think objectively it’s well produced, decent music and backing band, but the vocals and lyrics and just generally didn’t hit with me.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Love this album. No skips.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Conflicted about this one as Kanye continues to be a total piece of shit, self proclaimed Nazi. However, from a musical standpoint, this album is very good. When it first came out I listened to it regularly for over a year. This was my first Kanye album I listened to. Aggressive album, well produced, certainly harder to listen to in hindsight without tainted thoughts. I feel compelled to give it a 1 simply bc of who Kanye is, but I’ll grade based on music.