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Album	You	Global	Diff
Colour By Numbers Culture Club	5	2.84	+2.16
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Dry PJ Harvey	5	3.24	+1.76
Be Common	5	3.34	+1.66
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	4	2.77	+1.23
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.78	+1.22
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	4	2.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Master Of Puppets Metallica	1	3.73	-2.73
Harvest Neil Young	2	3.83	-1.83
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.64	-1.64
Definitely Maybe Oasis	2	3.52	-1.52
Kenya Machito	2	3.27	-1.27

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Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Feel like having your heart broken? Have an afternoon to kill? Go ahead and spend some time with this one, but give it the time it's due. Bonus points if it's raining outside.

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American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Not what I usually listen to, so missed a lot of the lyrics. Recognized a couple of songs.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Love this album, came out the year i graduated and i went to see beck and no doubt at the shoreline not long after. Listening to it again, i was struck by the consistent tone no matter the song.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

1/5

I know this is a classic and many people enjoy it. I'm sure it's amazing. I had to stop listening about 30% through the album. For me, it felt like being aggressively fucked in the ears. Not pleasant.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Suicide

3/5

Pretty interesting and I can hear its influence in some of the music I really enjoy, but not super enjoyable on its own.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I remember these songs from MTV in the 80s. Catchy, but never really vibed with them

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Makes me want to take x and walk around Burning Man circa 2000 again.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Never heard of this, since I spent this era watching Yo MTV Raps. I was surprised by the overwhelming impression that I'd heard every song before. The music is good and goes down easy, but it tastes like a mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich on Wonderbread.

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

Jesus, how was this guy so fucking popular? The music and lyrics are amazing, I just can't stand to listen to the thin, reedy, whiny intonation. I'll try again when my ears stop bleeding.

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

14 days in and I received the first new-to-me album that was worth listening to! This album was amazing - driving and immediate; visceral, cryptic, pleading and powerful. The music perfectly complementing and bestowing, delivering, offering, bearing the message of the song to the listener. Nothing superfluous, everything crucial to the communication. Exquisite.

Face to Face

The Kinks

4/5

Fun album, I've always loved these guys.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Wow, this was really good!

Pretenders

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

This was surprising and amazing.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

An assault on the ears, in kind of a good way. Not sure I'll look for it again, since it seems weird for the sake of being weird.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Feel like having your heart broken? Have an afternoon to kill? Go ahead and spend some time with this one, but give it the time it's due. Bonus points if it's raining outside.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Fuckin love this album, lots of memories here. It's a vibe, tho. Little dark, little uncomfortable; mesmerizing soundscapes.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

At first, I thought "Not so bad; not was I was anticipating"! The songs seemed interesting and I was willing to give it an honest go. By the 6th song, I heard myself ask "How long is this going to go on?". My friends and I used to make fun of party DJs whose sets droned on calling them DJ "I-Only-Have-This-One-Record". Similar story here. What was interesting at first turned stale quickly. Maybe it's time for the "We-Only-Have-This-One-Sound" Band

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

Wow, pretty good!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Are you kidding? 5 stars. No question.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Jesus, how many different people wrote the songs on this album? Bubblegum pop to existential dread from song to song; it's pretty jarring. The songs that hit, though? Holy shit. Just put those on a playlist and leave the rest.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Such wall. Such sound.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

So. Many. Ballads.

Common

5/5

F*ckin great. Go! is one of the few songs my daughter and I can both groove to. Just great. Listen to it!

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

So much new age on this list. I hear Duran Duran, Shuggie Otis, Talking Heads, the Cure, too many others to list. I've got no emotional connection to it but it's interesting.

Kenya

Machito

2/5

This sounds like I'm strapped to a chair that's turning counter-clockwise while oversaturated, single-tone tiki head, palm tree and surf board projections spin in the opposite direction. I can't close my eyes and I'm being force-fed a pina colada. Some might call it a good time, but I feel nauseous.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Pretty good, man.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Pretty good. Something I'd put on while working in the yard.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

5/5

Amazing. I've never listened to this album, but I always liked Culture Club when I heard them on MTV. I was a kid in the 80s, but used to watch videos with my older sister (when she'd let me). Good times, and I'm glad I listened to this now that I'm older.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

He's so unusual.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Rock n roll, baby. Oh, and cocaine. A bunch of cocaine, too.