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Album	You	Global	Diff
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	5	2.7	+2.3
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	5	2.73	+2.27
Headquarters The Monkees	5	2.86	+2.14
World Clique Deee-Lite	5	2.87	+2.13
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	5	2.91	+2.09
Ctrl SZA	5	2.92	+2.08
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	3	+2
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	5	3.05	+1.95
Hypnotised The Undertones	5	3.06	+1.94

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pearl Janis Joplin	1	3.72	-2.72
Moving Pictures Rush	1	3.57	-2.57
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	1	3.29	-2.29
American Pie Don McLean	1	3.28	-2.28
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97
Scott 4 Scott Walker	1	2.81	-1.81
Boston Boston	2	3.71	-1.71
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	1	2.65	-1.65
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	2	3.64	-1.64
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	2	3.6	-1.6

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	3	5
Neil Young	2	5
John Lennon	2	5
Dolly Parton	2	5

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Amy Winehouse	5, 2

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Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott · 1 likes

5/5

Bedbugs ARE scary!

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon · 1 likes

5/5

Art as therapy, therapy as art

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello · 1 likes

4/5

Master lyricist Fun fact, “This Is Hell” is used when Gilmore Girls’ (most important??) character Jess Mariano is first introduced in the series 😂 “Still Too Soon To Know” is a heartbreaking song, so is “All the Rage” in its own way (“Don’t try to touch my heart, it’s darker than you think” 👽)

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream · 1 likes

5/5

Loved this. Ship me off to another galaxy, I’m ready 🌌🪐

Moving Pictures

Rush · 1 likes

1/5

I just…don’t care

1-Star Albums (8)

All Ratings

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Have listened to this a million and a half times and it never gets old. Wish I had done a proper active listen this time through since it’s been a while

Blur

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

No notes 💯💯🔥🔥

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

More like 4.5 but this is so fun so here we are

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Just really holds up. The perfect length at 34 minutes - it could have so easily been overwrought and drawn out but it isn’t

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Good if you’re frantically cleaning your home, at a 90s rave, coding, or a 90s teen romcom soundtrack…and not much else

Chris

Christine and the Queens

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Pretty sure this would have been a case of “way more fun live” at the time it was released, but sadly I’ll never know Also way more into the back half of this record

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Metallica

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

More like a 3.5, solidly middle of the road - only here for the hits to accompany a drive down the shore lol

Scott 4

Scott Walker

1/5

Straight up not having a good time

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Realizing how much respect I have for Led Zeppelin being precious about their licensing while listening to this 😂 Sweet Emotion is the only bright spot

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Justice for half stars, this one is a 4.5 for me

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

Very fun! Not likely something I would return to repeatedly though

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

Peace Sells 🔥 Really enjoyed this! I know very little about Megadath but their influence on sum41 is really evident

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Painful, quite frankly

Paul Simon

3/5

Simon without Garfunkel just isn’t my thing; Duncan is the one redeeming track for me (I’ve always found Me and Julio completely insufferable and this listen didn’t change that 😂)

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

I appreciate the absurdism but this wasn’t really for me

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

2/5

Not memorable. Wasn’t as into this as I was Peace Sells…but also wasn’t in the mood for this vibe today so that could be part of it 😂

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Was going to say no notes, 10/10, an all-time favorite (although not my favorite NY solo effort), but instead: 1. Hilary, shoutout number 2 in like less than a week to Mr. Kessler and 7th grade language arts class (will explain this more in the group chat tomorrow) 2. Extremely eerie to listen to this record today specifically (looking at you, Southern Man and Don’t Let It Bring You Down) 3. Damn does NY know how to write about love and heartbreak or what 4. Listened two times in a row because how could I not 😍 alright, Brett out

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Not particularly memorable. Decidedly not music for the masses (ba dum tss) Giving this a 3 instead of a 2 because I like “Never Let Me Down Again” and the funky music theory of “Pimpf”

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Pour toi, Hilary : C’est un groupe assez cool, j’en profite pour écouter quand je suis au boulot, mais pas beaucoup plus. Je ne sais pas si c’est un compliment ou pas, désolée Air 🙃 Comme j’ai dit dans le group chat, c’est pas mon album préféré - je préfère la bande originale de Virgin Suicides

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Meditative - I listened to this as I was falling asleep so I don’t feel like I can give it a fair rating, but I’d say somewhere between 3ish and 4ish

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Perfect from start to finish. As I said in the group chat, a gorgeous listening experience 🌑

One World

John Martyn

4/5

Enjoyed this

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Made me feel like I was 15 and ready for a show at Maxwell’s; i.e., really enjoyed this! Muuuuuch prefer it to the stuff that came after (thinking mostly the singles off the 2008 record), which I’ve always found extremely annoying. Also feel like the music supervisor for The Hills licensed the crap out of this 😂

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Love Willie 🥰 such a lovely record

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

🔥

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

I liked this a lot in college, but I’m not in college anymore 😂 Ball and Chain still rips though This is another case of .5 for me, would rather rate 3.5 but going 3 because I’m not feeling generous today

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Nothing memorable for me here although I appreciate it for what it is

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

Was expecting to really enjoy this and instead found it tedious

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

5/5

Loved this. Ship me off to another galaxy, I’m ready 🌌🪐

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Unsurprisingly way better on a second listen with headphones but the cheesy corn is still getting to me

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Straight mid. Love “I’m A Man” and “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” (s/o NJ 101.5 as mentioned 😂) but unlikely to be something I revisit regularly

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Beatlemania for life, baby The only reason this doesn’t get five stars is because it was an executive mistake to have them record so many covers

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Dropped off in the middle for me but overall I’m here for it because of the little bits and pieces of beautiful instrumentation - “layered and hidden at the same time” is what kept going through my head as I listened Also big Oasis vibes on “Melody Calls” and generally a lot of late-stage Beatles influences And last but not least I really enjoyed feeling like I was back at NYU in 2006 walking to and from class listening to “Catch the Sun” (Why am I giving Doves so much attention when this is like a 3.5 for me?)

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Listened to this too early in the day to be able to appreciate it much but I did like “The Rage”

Hypnotised

The Undertones

5/5

Loved this, more please

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

1/5

Make it stop

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Justice for half stars!

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

So goofy and fun, will definitely revisit

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

The back half negated the front

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Meh

World Clique

Deee-Lite

5/5

Sign me up for more

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

As I said already, my flavor of weird

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

This is where I’d appreciate half stars again - it really starts to rip from “Come Out and Play” on

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Listened to this passively so I don’t think I can give a fair rating but it’s obviously beautiful

The Clash

3/5

Not my favorite from these guys but “I’m So Bored With the USA” is a whole thesis statement

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Started off strong (love love “Keep On Movin’”, very motivating way to start my morning) but really lost steam as it went on with the exception of “Back to Life” - probably not something I’ll return to. Also very clear how much Jungle was influenced by this

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

3 for Buzzin Fly

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Zero notes (pun intended)

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

This is a 4.5 for me, justice for half stars etc, but I love Queen Harry too much to round down here

American Pie

Don McLean

1/5

Ugh

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Nothing memorable here for me

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

So Radiohead coded! I found I’m way too familiar with this record to listen to it with fresh ears, but very interesting to see how the end of “Everything’s Not Lost” foreshadowed their sound from their later career. “Trouble” into “Parachutes” is also clutch. We were all always playing “Trouble” on the piano in the common room of my high school lol Tbh can’t wait for A Rush of Blood to the Head which will surely be on this list!

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Liked this more than the other Tim Buckley but didn’t listen super closely tbh (“Once I Was” is really nice though as I mentioned in the chat! 🥺)

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Pleasant

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Pure feel good even with the heartbreaker “Somebody Loves Me” Torn between 4 and 5 here

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Another tossup between 4 and 5 for me, and for shame, I do prefer Carole King’s version of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” because I have a soft spot for songwriters getting to perform their own work. Also really made me look forward to whenever Tapestry will show up on this list

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

5/5

Brash and sexy, bring on the noise

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

I feel foolish for not knowing how Joy Division-coded Interpol is until listening to this I have to be in a verrryyyy specific kind of mood for this but I do really enjoy it (“Disorder”!!)

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Just fine

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Not my favorite of theirs although “Street Fighting Man” is one of my favorite Stones songs and “Factory Girl” is a highlight. Somewhere between a 3 and 4 here

Moving Pictures

Rush

1/5

I just…don’t care

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Really conscious of the misogyny/machismo of the lyrics in this in a way I wasn’t when I was younger 🫣

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

5/5

Bedbugs ARE scary!

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

As discussed, couldn’t separate art from the artist on this one :( would give a 1.5 lyrically but 3-4 for production and I’m feeling generous this morning so I’ll go with 3 overall

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

It’s a stone cold 5 for me, even with how much I loathe “The Girl Is Mine”

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Sexy as hell, no notes

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Nice but probably not something I’ll revisit. The music supervisor for Grey’s Anatomy probably would have gone bananas over this record

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Lovely 🥰

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Begrudgingly liked this a lot more than I thought I would

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

I just don’t care enough sorryyyyy

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

You all already know my thoughts in detail about this

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

David Bowie

5/5

Keep your electric eye on me, baby - one million fives out of five

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

This dropped off toward the end for me which is the only reason I’m giving a 4 instead of a 5, really loved the energy here

Talvin Singh

1/5

Nah

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

1/5

Boring and unoriginal. I’ve always found “hard to handle” extremely annoying. The more I listened the less tolerable I found this hence the 1

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Not quite a 5 for me but close

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Suzanne Vega

2/5

I see what this is but it’s not really for me

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

“The O-Men” into “Kuntz” is a whole thing, let alone the final track 😨

Infected

The The

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

This is another case of between 3 and 4 for me

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

I loved this! So fun, would definitely revisit. “Ain’t That A Shame” was a surprise, I didn’t look at the track list as I listened

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Another one with Scorpio Energy, proper noun, but not necessarily my favorite

Boston

2/5

In the end…meh. Hilary got it: it’s aggressively fine

Pearl

Janis Joplin

1/5

Nothing here is memorable to me among these jammy jams…got to the point where I was straight up annoyed by the noodling/posturing and didn’t want to finish, hence the 1. Sorry, Janis 🤷🏼‍♀️

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Straight mid

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

“Bigmouth Strikes Again” is good, “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” and “Franky Mr Shankly” are grating

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

I want to listen to this again many more times and then write a dissertation on it

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Way too long and he’s 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 but still gets a 3 from me for “New York, New York” and a few other nice moments throughout 😬

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

I wanted to like this more but I was definitely not in the right mood for it, although the fish cakes song made me laugh. Their influence on Interpol and Franz Ferdinand is really evident

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

4.5 if I could!

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Made me lol multiple times, ultimate fuckboy record

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Wanted to knock this down to 3 for a few reasons but it’s undeniably excellent, so here we are

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

The one-two punch of Longview and Welcome to Paradise rips

Queen II

Queen

4/5

I know “The Loser In The End” is controversial because it interrupts the black/white May/Mercury concept but I love it. This one would get a 4.5 from me if I could. It’s not absolutely perfect but it nearly gets there, and it’s super fun to listen to knowing where their journey took them after this

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Straight mid for me

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Too much content about heartbreak 😭 something I need to be in a very specific headspace to listen to/revisit because a lot of it is tough to listen to

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Abby put it perfectly - this record is interminable, BUT it’s also excellent and I don’t have eloquent words for how much I enjoy it beyond that it gets my Paul Hollywood handshake of a 5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

5/5

Art as therapy, therapy as art

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Another example of the environment where I listened impacting my vote 😂👙⛱️

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Clutch. The spoken monologues are all excellent and aged really well - the only reason this doesn’t get a 5 from me is because “Pussycat” didn’t age super well 🫠

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Enjoyed this more expected! Musically more often than lyrically - one or two big duds didn’t mean this was terrible on the whole

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Larry’s description put it best

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Reliable Willie!

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Aggressively fine

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

No Compassion is a very funny song This one almost gets a 5!

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Instant 5 for queen Siouxsie, “Arabian Nights” to “Halloween” to “Monitor” is a perfect trio

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Already shared my feelings here and would consider knocking this down a star for the ASMR of it all but eh

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

Beautiful and tragic

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Needed this in my life yesterday - pushing a 5 for “Shining Star”

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

5/5

Amazingly constructed breakup album

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

“The Thrill of it All” is such a killer opening. The music theory on this record in general is chef’s kiss, I love when pop music uses uncommon intervals - but knocking this down a star for the Bryan Ferry of it all 😑

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

I’m not saying anything novel here, but the magic of ABBA is that they mastered writing sonically cheerful music about tragic/heartbreaking topics and that dissonance is absolutely 🤌🏼

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

It’s always better on holiday

Dry

PJ Harvey

3/5

I think I’m one of the few people who prefers her later output to her earlier catalogue, hence the 3 here

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Really enjoyed this, especially “Strength of Strings”

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

“Changes” is such a sad song “Laguna Sunrise” is beautiful The final track rippppsssss, 4.5 maybe for that alone

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

The diversity of songwriting here is really a pleasure to listen to - almost pushed a 5 for me

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Adele

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot more than expected because I thought I’d tune out quickly - refreshing to hear a record full of someone taking accountability for apparently being a selfish jerk in their youth 😂 it’s timeless as we discussed in the group chat and “River Lea” particularly stood out to me, I hadn’t heard that one before

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Validating to see from the global reviews I’m not alone in my opinion here. Bonus Star for “Da Funk” and “Rollin’ & Scratchin’”

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Automatic

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

Why

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Some CSNY vibes in some of the choruses here (The Boston Rag, King of the World) Also lol to the lyric in “Pearl of the Quarter” that says “voulez-voulez-voulez-vous”, because this lacks a verb or noun to make it make any kind of sense

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Chef’s kiss

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

5/5

How many times did I listen to “Southern Point” on the D train home to Bensonhurst in 2009? 🥲 I heard this record described once as sounding like fragile memories, which I love and totally agree with. Tonally they do such a good job of using instrumentation to represent bitterness and subtle unease. Also I didn’t know this until today, but Veckatimest is an uninhabited island near Martha’s Vineyard!

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

As mentioned I wasn’t as familiar with the B side and it rips

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

Not for me

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Sync sucked the novelty out of a lot of these tracks, but still putting it between 3 and 4

Ctrl

SZA

5/5

In no particular order: The level of vulnerability and insecurity here is painful to listen to The end of “Anything”!! And “Pretty Little Birds” One of the best we’ve listened to so far

Headquarters

The Monkees

5/5

What can I say, I love the Monkees

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

This ain’t it, although it does have its moments on the back half. Dave put it well, her vocals are too drowned out in the mix

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Instant karma, instant 5 The juxtaposition of “Oh My Love” against “How Do You Sleep?” is 😳

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Fun bass line in “Cross-Tie Walker” Fun guitar and bass lines in “Sinister Purpose”

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Listened to this pretty passively (sorry, Stereolab) but into it!

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

The only thing I’ve genuinely liked so far is The Happy End probably because there are no vocals

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Fell off during the second half for me

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

No notes

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Fun! Matched my mood today so it gets a 5 over a 4

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

4/5

Sexy!!!

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Didn’t realize that Randy Newman gives me Van Morrison Nora Ephron movie sync energy until listening to this. Also “Marie” is surprisingly tender and heartbreaking!

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

OutKast are extremely singular

808 State

3/5

Fine! Not particularly memorable for me but a nice change of pace

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Thrilled this record was part of this project!! The one-two punches of Independent Women Pt 1/Survivor and Happy Face/Emotion! It’s also so interesting to hear how this was a runway for what came later, like Apple Pie à la Mode being the 2001 version of Partition The only reason this doesn’t get 5 stars from me is because of the weird juxtaposition of Nasty Girl against everything else. It’s jarring and feels v out of place and v much like a Mathew choice re: presenting a certain image of who he wanted them to be

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

HELLOOOOOO BROOKLYYYYNNNNNN I listened to this passively which maybe wasn’t the ideal choice, sorry to kill the perfect 5 y’all 😂 Liked the B-Boy Bouillabaisse tracks more than the front half! Was ready to give this a 3 but I’ll bump up

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

The 1-2 punch of Movin’ Out and The Stranger almost made me be more generous with my thoughts on Billy Joel - as did the totality of production value here - but the casual misogyny knocked it back down. Hard to figure out where that settles beyond a 3

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

5/5

Loved this

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

Very lukewarm feelings

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

An absolute delight that covers so many bases

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Some good moments but on the whole eh

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

As established LS cooks but not enough for me to give this a mid rating

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Extremely one note but extremely good at that one note. My north jersey heritage feels bad giving this a 3 but 🤷🏼‍♀️

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

Today I learned I love Tom Waits

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

4/5

Some really nice moments happening here! Hovers between a 3 and a 4 for me

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Appreciate this for what it is but I can’t say I had particularly strong feelings about it

Ramones

5/5

They massa-creed this record

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Smooth but between a 3 and 4 for me

Dire Straits

3/5

I didn’t actively dislike this enough to give it a 2 so here we are

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Too lyrically repetitious to be enjoyable for me on this listen. Not feeling the teenager-y dichotomy of “love is bleak/all consuming” today. But she is an undeniable force so we’re going middle of the road here

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Enjoyed this and I will be revisiting!

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Millennial sleeper cell activation

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Sexy as hell!! But not a 5 on this listen for me

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

Excellent vibe

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Didn’t enjoy this as much listening with headphones but it’s always a 5 for me

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Love my Fiona and this is a killer debut (the poetry!!), but it’s not something I revisit in full frequently the way I do her other records. Rating this as a standalone even though my bias wants to give it a 5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Mega

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Listened to this passively but looking forward to revisiting!

Trio

Dolly Parton

5/5

An absolute delight, heartbreak in perfect harmonies