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Album	You	Global	Diff
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	5	2.79	+2.21
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.28	+1.72
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.38	+1.62
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.6	-2.6
1984 Van Halen	1	3.5	-2.5
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	1	3.26	-2.26
Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes	1	2.73	-1.73
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	1	2.69	-1.69
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	1	2.65	-1.65
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.57	-1.57
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	2	3.51	-1.51
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	2	3.42	-1.42

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Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Half the songs are absolutely amazing, the other half are mostly tedious

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Good musicians, but damn those jams are long. I don't think I'll ever put this album on by choice.

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Good musicians from a technical perspective but they are painful to listen to. I could not make it through the whole album.

The Band

2/5

Bland, uninspired, and dull -- a slog to listen to. I would never play this album by choice.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Peak Elton John. Not exactly my type of music -- some great songs and some absolute dudes ("Rotten Peaches" sounds like a Dana Carver impersonation)

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

That was almost the perfect Friday album. Easy to listen to and interesting enough to pay attention to the music. I will definitely be adding this to my playlist.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Inoffensive but generic country-adjacent pop music. Easy to listen to but I doubt I'll ever have the urge to put this album back on.

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

What a great album. Hit play again as soon as the it was done.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

It's a slog! Out-of-tune singing, pretentious lyrics, uninteresting melodies.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

What an amazing way to end the week.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Not bad, maybe a little tedious. "We have Bob Dylan at home" set to the music of Bruce Springsteen.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

A little goofy but genuinely fun. I would have no objections to listening to this album again.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Ended up being surprisingly easy to work to (good rhythm and I didn't understand a word). I don't think I'd play this for other purposes.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Interesting to listen to for a while, but not my kind of music. Gets tedious after the first half-hour or so (90 minute album). By my self-imposed scoring system, this is either a high-2 or low-3 star rating.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Meh. Nice pleasant songs but nothing I'll bother listening to again.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Please -- no more country music!

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

That is just awful. I guess it takes a special kind of prunes to make this kind of turds.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

1/5

I barely made it through this. The only reason this would get 2 stars would be to leave room on the bottom for garbage like yesterday's album.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

This is one of my all-time favorite albums

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Not bad. Has some deservedly-famous songs on there.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

This is a pretty decent album, but I don't think I'd ever choose this over Strangeways or The Queen Is Dead.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

Not my kind of music.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

How does bland slop like this become popular? I guess I could extend this question to Ed Sheeran.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The lyrics are much better than the singing and the music. I can see why this album would speak to some people, but I don't think I'll feel the urge to listen to it again.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Good album, but not his best. Lacking the cohesion (and weirdness) of some of his other works.

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

There is a lot of talent on this album, but I'm not sure that the content has aged well.

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Cosplaying as Delta Blues. This album is both unoriginal and uninteresting. Annoyingly, it manages to bring itself down even further by the excessive use of fuzz.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Not as bad as I feared, but also not particularly interesting.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

I knew a lot of the songs but I'd never listened to the whole album in order. I liked this album a lot more than I'd expected! Every song is a nonsensical homage to a different band or music style, but they can all stand on their own merits.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Not my normal music taste, but absolutely an amazing album.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

A long-time favorite.

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

This might be the most repetitive album I've had the displeasure of listening to

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Meh. Guitar-centric folk rock. Pleasant enough, but not my kind of music.

1984

Van Halen

1/5

The 80s dripping out of every orifice. I was tired of it less than 5 minutes into the album.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Not necessarily *bad* but just so very, very dramatic. It's kind of exhausting, to be fair!

Scissor Sisters

4/5

Somebody was having a lot of fun making this album. I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Their version of "Comfortably Numb" is so outrageously campy that I can't tell whether it is brilliant or awful.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

It's like they couldn't decide whether they wanted to be Led Zeppelin or They Might Be Giants, so they failed at both. Sucks.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

I know it is a historically significant album, but it is also a bit annoying.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Notably better than their normal grunge. I still don't like Cobain's voice, though

Blur

3/5

Soulless and derivative.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

5/5

That's the most enjoyably weird album I've gotten on this list to date.

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Definitely strange and original. Mostly, but not always, good. This sits well above most of the 70s music that is so heavily represented on this list.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

This album is so dull that I may need to recalibrate future ratings. Competent, but dull, dull, dull!

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Maybe it's just not the day for this, but it feels like lame lyrics set to predictable music.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Yawn.