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Album	You	Global	Diff
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	5	2.97	+2.03
Berlin Lou Reed	5	3.09	+1.91
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye	5	3.21	+1.79
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.26	+1.74
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.34	+1.66
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.4	+1.6
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.41	+1.59
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	2	3.63	-1.63
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.46	-1.46
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.35	-1.35

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Artist	Albums	Average
Marvin Gaye	2	5
The Smiths	2	5
Radiohead	4	4.25
Talking Heads	3	4.33
Miles Davis	3	4.33

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The Cars

The Cars · 2 likes

5/5

A stone cold classic. One of those rare (debut!) albums that plays like a greatest hits comp

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane · 1 likes

4/5

Great tunes and lovely acoustic guitar tones

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KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Definitely not something I'd usually reach for, but overall pretty strong songwriting and nice production.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Really a lot more varied than I was expecting! Obviously the hits are all-timers, but Save the Life of My Child and Hazy Shade of Winter really stood out to me.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

My favorite Heads album! Really love the jittery, nervous energy all over this album. It's crazy to think this feels like a band firing on all cylinders, only to make another huge creative jump just the next year with Remain in Light. Maybe it's knowing they were on that precipice is what makes me enjoy this album so much.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Blur were one of my favorite and most influential bands in high school, and they still hold up quite well. For me, Parklife is maybe the weakest of their Imperial Pop era. It's undeniable that the guys are firing on all cylinders here, but revisting this record, it felt a bit bloated. Girls & Boys is still one of the best songs ever, though!

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Despite being really familiar with the singles, I'd never listened to this record in full. The beats and production are great, but a lot of the vocals and rapping makes it trapped in that late 90s shtickiness.

The xx

3/5

Somehow my first listen to this! Feels very of its time but also I can feel its fingerprints all over pop music since it came out. Enjoyed it more than i thought!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

While not every song on this album is perfect, the highs are so unbelievably high, it made me tear up. A near perfect Christmas album

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

I really liked the production of this, but similar to fat of the land, the vocals take away a bit for me. At the same time, though, there were some really great pop hooks in there, so I can't complain too much

Fleet Foxes

4/5

A really nice debut album. I think this is one of the more effective records of the age where artists were looking back to genres and moods of the past and really building on them in an interesting way. The vocal production and harmonies are top notch. It also feels interesting how much dynamicism is permitted without someone stomping on a distortion pedal

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

The goddamn blueprint

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Not my thing. Energy was good but idk, too much

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Definitely a little long, but I really enjoyed some of the production and flow

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

Damn i could not get into this. I feel like there's a whole subgenre of artists just doing pop music in the same way huge pop stars do but they're just not as successful. Couldn't even finish it

The Cars

5/5

A stone cold classic. One of those rare (debut!) albums that plays like a greatest hits comp

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

One of the classics, for good reason. Moonchild is a little bit filler-ish, but there are plenty of amazing moments to make up for the few lackluster ones

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Really can't complain about this one, great production and grooves

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

I've been on a huge Dylan kick lately, so this came at a good time. His older voice works well with the really great sounding band and production. I can see why this is a highlight of his latter-day material!

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

I dug this one a lot. Really impassioned vocal delivery, good grooves, and a nice melding of a lot of disparate 70s dance sounds. Great slap bass!!

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

This was great! Really chill vibes and great playing. Good way to start the day but I also want to revisit this with some pot perhaps

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Classic rock because it's classic and it rocks

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

A landmark album. Some of my favorite songs of all time on this one. Would be a perfect 5 if there was something else besides hit the plane down on it

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

Fun breezy album for a 0 degree today

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Great tunes and lovely acoustic guitar tones

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

Just too perfect. Mr. Blue Sky is a classic, but I just couldnt care about the rest of it

Dire Straits

4/5

Stellar guitar tones and production. Hard to believe it's their debut!

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

For some reason this one has never clicked with me as much as others from this era of the band. Some great highs tho

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

A classic for a reason

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Didn't realize this was their first record! Really great!

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Actually very good, glad I finally checked it out!

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Worth the hype

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

I've always been pretty Elvis agnostic, this was better than I remember it being, but I'm still not sold.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Some of their best songs on here!

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Definitely their best, often my favorite

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Great vocals and groovy production

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

One of the best of all time

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Crazy influential, love the punk/jam mix. Great bass tones

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

5/5

One of the best of all time. Kind of can't believe this is a real album and it's done so well!

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

I've always had a soft spot for this record, it sounds amazing, and the songs are great

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

a little long, but the highs hit hard. 3.5/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Great stuff!!

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Really beautiful country rock

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

5/5

incredible

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

A classic, some of their best songs on here

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Really foundational stuff here, his vocals are a little all over the place but I feel like each style has influenced a whole different genre of rock

Low

David Bowie

4/5

One of the most insanely influential albums of all time.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Really great stuff, great bass work in particular

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

A lot of fun!

Future Days

Can

4/5

Stone cold classic

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

The definitive Rock Opera

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

4/5

Feels insanely influential in so many different ways. Lots to love here

Odelay

Beck

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

The way guitars should sound

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Incredible stuff

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

It's always so interesting when a band has The One Before THE One. Everything that works so perfectly on Daydream Nation is falling into place here.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Undeniable classic

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

I liked this quite a bit. Didn't feel gimmicky or anything, really compelling. Helps that her voice is amazing

A Northern Soul

The Verve

4/5

Better than I anticipated

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Hard to deny the hits on this one. Some of the album cuts are touch and go, but worth its classic status

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Joanna Newsom

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

A classic. So inventive and still feels so fresh and innovative

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

Fun experimental b-side, great vocals and horns!

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

VERY Spector, which has it's ups and downs. Only You Know remains the highlight

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Feels incredibly influential. Great playing

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

I feel the production, songwriting and overall feel of this album are super influential in that so much tries to sound like this from 2017 on, but there are some really stellar moments on here. Influential for a reason!

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

A classic for a reason

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Could not get into this...feels almost like something I'd like but it was just too much

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Drags a little bit towards the end, but this is full with some of their strongest work

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

3.5

Berlin

Lou Reed

5/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

4.5/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

3.5/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

4.5/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

3.5/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

4.5/5.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

My personal fave Stones album. Just the right amount of sleaze. 4.5/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

Fun!

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Another debut that feels like a greatest hits album!

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

I feel like early 70s Paul could either completely knock it out of the park or get too much in his own way. This feels like him finally trying to seriously breakthrough, and break free. So many classics on this album it’s hard to believe they’re all here

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Stone cold classic

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco