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Album	You	Global	Diff
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.41	+2.59
Cut The Slits	5	2.71	+2.29
Movies Holger Czukay	5	2.71	+2.29
Skylarking XTC	5	3.03	+1.97
Buffalo Springfield Again Buffalo Springfield	5	3.18	+1.82
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Aja Steely Dan	5	3.46	+1.54
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.51	+1.49

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Last Broadcast Doves	1	3.05	-2.05
Maverick A Strike Finley Quaye	1	2.75	-1.75
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.62	-1.62
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.58	-1.58
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	2	3.41	-1.41
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.23	-1.23
The White Album Beatles	3	4.18	-1.18
1977 Ash	2	3.03	-1.03
Highly Evolved The Vines	2	3.03	-1.03

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Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

had the unique privilege of being able to break out my literally Metal Box with this lp and listen through. the way the album is structured makes each side of the 3 discs only 1 or 2 tracks long, which made me appreciate this so much more than streaming it start to finish. I get why this would not be enjoyable to a listener, but this has the sauce thats makes we want to hit play as soon as it ends. musically, it’s so akin to the dub they’re clearly super influenced by - hypnotic, atmospheric, kind of menacing - but lyrically it’s agonised and devastated. I never put two and two together, but john lydon had spent the end of his teen years going through a hellish gauntlet on an international stage. my thoughts on the sex pistols are a whole other thing, and I’ll leave it at they were mostly fabrication but energetically spectacular. their youthful fury and contrarianism gives way to pil’s jaded nihilism and purgatory. it’s hilarious how much ppl on here hate this album lmaooooo

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Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

hard for its reputation to not proceed it; I’ve loved this album since I was 16. while not as essential as “low”, it’s a clear graduation in the direction bowie was headed.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

I survived the singer-songwriter deluge of the 2002s, and this album took me back. norah jones has a beautiful voice, but I found myself wishing I was listening to fiona apple, joni mitchell, chet baker, rufus wainwright, pretty much anything similar but so much weightier and with personality!

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

my scrotum imposin sooooo nostalgic. I’m smoking weed at the park in high school in 2015. charming in its scrappiness but still a masterful album deftly executed. kendrick’s preachy shtick is definitely less affecting with the benefit of time and hindsight and his following albums, but man it’s so good! m.a.a.d. city followed by swimming pool made me drive unwisely in the snow

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

all timer…..I bought this cd from the electric fetus when I was 14 bc it had been recommended and sited by so many of my favorite musicians. I would play it over and over while I worked on homework or stared at the ceiling or any of the stuff I did when I was 14. perfect!

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

I didnt relisten but I lived through the 2010s so I have heard this more times than anyone should before I die.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

yuuuuup. best beats of any tribe album? mixed so well. kind of their most fiendish

My Generation

The Who

3/5

rascal music

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

never listened to this all the way through; so beautiful, well produced, poignant, and maaaaan marvin gaye voice. yup

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

the song will be called “goober” and the lyrics will be goober every day goober now my way goober goober you’re such a bloody goober

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

a masterclass in sampling……my dad has loved dj shadow for his experimental take on his medium, somewhere between trip hop and ambient. listening on headphones rly highlighted the weirdness this time.

Headquarters

The Monkees

4/5

where to begin? my 3rd favorite monkees album. the one that changed everything and was perhaps the beginning of the end. the album they played (almost) all their own instruments on. does anybody know about their beards? the beginning of you told me brings me total ecstasy.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

it’s superfly!

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

first 2 songs rip. this guy has a great voice, I would like it/enjoy more if many inferior vocalists jacked his style in the ensuing years. good, sometime great instrumentation! the hits r the weakest links…

New York Dolls

4/5

so much like this, yet nothing ever came close. would metalheads be gay if they heard this before wasp, et al??

1977

Ash

2/5

medium rock music. found myself wishing I was listening to msp…..some catchy hooks and melodies and fun tunes, but nothing especially good to me

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

effortlessly perfect……happiness and tranquility enducing

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

was pleasantly surprised to find out this was an andy weatherall joint. perfect album for playing cards to, a delicious mix of dancehall, ambient, and electronica weirdness

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

super inventive uses of orchestration and choir. far less of a heartbreaker than his other albums; perfect sunny morning in spring

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

I think its great that he got to make this but it is a private dance

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

more medium ass rock that has me asking once again, why do I need to hear this before I die?

The Last Broadcast

Doves

1/5

more medium ass rock that has me asking once again, why do I need to hear this before I die? - copied from my last review. AAAAAAAAA WHEN WILL THESE STOP BEING ASSIGNED

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

all timer for me - I listen to this at work pretty often. surprised by how a closer listen emphasised how weak the middle-end part was…..like generic trip hop rather than the iconic tunes on side A. also did not realise the fidelity on the sampled parts was so low sometimes, which is kind of charming but also really clashes with the modern synths and drum machines they employ. still love it tho!

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

is this a joke?

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

YUUUUUUUUP

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

so many bangers, way too long. esp the late 80s slow anthems

I See You

The xx

2/5

the xx did so much for the white british ppl pretending to be r&b singers combined with ableton stock beats-core

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

they lezzed the hell out on this

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

I’m sure he has much better stuff, and his once in a lifetime talent shines through. liked this a lot more than I thought I would bc of my history with listening to a LOT of mediocre blues

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

YUP! one of the best pieces of american music ever produced. I would shit myself if I saw bruce live

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

it’s kind of messy and too long but I simply do not care it’s soooo god damn funky!

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

so beautiful and effortless……reminds me of a lot of contemporaneous british folk but also stuff like early brian eno! happy to have this in my rotation now

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

goofy asl…..prog lite

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

not an album about drugs or for doing drugs to per se, but an album whose sounds evokes probably the kind of casual use and destitution of being in your 20s. also strange that shoegaze and art rock dont come up in what I’ve read abt this album; I got sugarcubes vibes from idiots rules, ted just admit it was like a fine tuned butthole surfers track

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

another middle of the road british indie album I had never heard of; better than the others of its ilk I’ve heard so far, but I have to ask that question again: did I need to hear this before I die?

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

WOW!!!!! I’ve probably heard this whole thing before, and I’m certainly familiar with many of the tracks; listening to skylarking in its entirety was a sublime privilege!

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

here’s my 1 disc version: dear prudence glass onion the continuing story of bungalow bill while my guitar gently weeps happiness is a warm gun I’m so tired don’t pass me by why don’t we do it in the road I will julia yer blues helter skelter revolution 1 cry baby cry

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

loved listening to this on headphones while riding in the car when I was a teen

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

it sure is.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

mother………

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

NO!!!!!

Cut

The Slits

5/5

I cannot believe they were TEENAGERS and in the late 70s no less when they recorded this…….so incredible, and inventively produced!

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

its the blues

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

absolute white boy malarkey

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

medium rare rock

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

soooo liberal white guy and not as good as remember but still has high highs

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

guys rock

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

listen to this album and smoke dirt weed……pure bliss

Traffic

3/5

fun as hell. I love quirked up white british boy blues

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

rips!

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

it’s rock and roll

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

5/5

they dont know how to miss……stands high above their contemporaries in so many ways!

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

such an underrated and weird FM album! sara is one of stevie’s all time best, and tusk is maybe my Mac song period

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

what can I say? love teenagers god beauty and pain

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

she goes

Movies

Holger Czukay

5/5

YUUUUP

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

oh my god……the chimp is surfing!!!!

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

I didnt know this was a mostly acoustic album! a perfect sequel to ram. he’s such a dyke!

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

I used to listen to this cd all the time on my rly subpar crosley combo player; some of the best of its alt-2000s indie ilk. holds up both as its own thing and as a capture of that scene. getting into a lot of the english/scottish indie bands they were influenced by opened this album wide up on this relisten too - I feel like so many bands of this era were an insult to the velvet underground or cars or undertones or josef k - but there is such a studied and genuine admiration for their predecessors. there’s a kind of modesty to this that I really appreciate!

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

I’m always here

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

5/5