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Album	You	Global	Diff
Signing Off UB40	5	2.97	+2.03
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	5	3.05	+1.95
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré	5	3.13	+1.87
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	5	3.17	+1.83
Kenya Machito	5	3.27	+1.73
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	5	3.28	+1.72
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.32	+1.68

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.66	-2.66
Highway to Hell AC/DC	1	3.66	-2.66
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	1	3.07	-2.07
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
Illmatic Nas	2	3.6	-1.6
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	2	3.58	-1.58
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	2	3.51	-1.51
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	1	2.5	-1.5
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	2	3.37	-1.37

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	2	5

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Superunknown

Soundgarden · 2 likes

1/5

Not for me, but I bet Nickelback loved this record.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno · 2 likes

5/5

An all timer in innovating music. Re-thinking what music can be, making it for a cool purpose and absolutely crushing the assignment. There is beauty in liminal spaces and being in the in between.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey · 1 likes

5/5

I spent the early 00's constantly reading spin telling me to listen to PJ Harvey and I never did. That was my bad. Great record.

1-Star Albums (6)

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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Solid, no stand outs high or low though.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Great record, Marley-esque, political and tight.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

1/5

Not for me, but I bet Nickelback loved this record.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

More musical theater than I thought. Maybe the Prisoner is the best song?

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Dumb is a good hangover song on a bad hangover album. Cobain has a few musical ideas that he does well. He would totally vote for Trump if he were still alive.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Beat it really slaps. The song with Paul McCartney is...off. PYT was good.

Throwing Muses

3/5

Not bad. Read this review on youtube "Back then, whenya had Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, Metallica and Madonna, that gave absolutely nothing, we had real music. Bands like REM, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic youth and yes, Throwing Muses. Thank physics for the Inde underground. Because therein lie the therapy’s for an ever questioning youth. The dizzying absurdities of growing up then, as now. And the kids are not alright." So, I would say it's music for Gen X atheists who don't believe in therapy.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

I spent the early 00's constantly reading spin telling me to listen to PJ Harvey and I never did. That was my bad. Great record.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

They really need that Y.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Interesting. Like early u2 with more street cred and fewer bangers.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

An all timer. The first time Dylan found his voice (the first version of it). The great songs are great, the smaller songs are enjoyable and lesser known songs like Oxford Town hold up.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

It's a 3.5 really. I like the less rocky songs with the whispery singing. It's been a cultural blind spot, probably have to revisit someday, but not really for me.

Signing Off

UB40

5/5

New to it. A bit of a white boy reggae feel but hey, if the shoe fits.

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

A lotta synths on this one

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

1/5

This record is ass.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Back half of the record was better

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Maybe the worst music yet made by human beings. Besides sounding deeply unpleasant, it’s just poorly made by folks who seem both stupid and lazy. Zero stars.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

The Platonic ideal of a live Rock n Roll album

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Great concept, not my favorite version of this kinda record.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Not bad, kinda fun.

Scissor Sisters

3/5

It's alright

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

This one actually slaps

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Truly nothing to write home about. A few sounded good, but I could have not listened and been fine.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

It's cool and political but feels dated.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

It's great. John and Lakin said they grew up with this one.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Best record cover and name. Could listen to this anywhere, any time.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

It's great.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

It's a classic

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Some bangers but a bit repetitive

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Super meh

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Some of it slaps and it's supposed to be fun. I love the 90's, but this is a lot. It isn't quite there.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Great voice, can't hate it.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

5/5

The Greeks were right, it slaps.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

A lot of satire. Better than it looks.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

This could be the best record on this entire list. A gigantic achievement. It is impossible to be hyperbolic about how good this is, even if I just tried.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

It's alright. Not for me so much.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

It's just fine. Covers etc. Typically early record for a band of that era

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Oasis light

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Some great Neil Young songs and the rest is quite bad.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

It’s a classic

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

It is not offensive, but I don't get the love

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Not my thing but obviously quite good

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Proto smiths

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

good, chill etc

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Some good stuff but dated and not especially interesting today

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Rock flute is better than you think it would be. A lot of these were on the radio.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

2/5

It is tedious

Kenya

Machito

5/5

Great for working

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

An all time cover, an album of mostly fillers. Love Bowie, not his best.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Great sounds, great for working

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Doesn't have their biggest hits, but this is the sound of classic rock radio.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Solid but actually pretty unremarkable and generic?

Low

David Bowie

5/5

This man must have utterly crushed Berlin in 1977

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Very chill and pleasant, maybe too anodyne

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

I'm sure this is cool for reasons that escape me, but it's sloppy and not appealing.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

It's cool and better than the other Public Enemy record I've had from this, but it's dated.

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

It is cool, but just not for me as much as I wish it was.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Not for me. Free Form Guitar is an apt track name and an utterly shite concept.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Another one that Spin magazine told me to listen to for years and I dropped the ball. Very good. A few of these are too much of a carnival for me.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

It is maybe just a bit too demure and depressing for a full five stars, but it is ideal background music.

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

It's a 3.5 but really thought I would hate it and didn't. The guy's voice is alright and though jam band style, it's pretty nice.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Maybe the definition of mid. Why would anyone put this on a list like this??

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

I started to listen to this weeks ago when Japanese Breakfast ranked this as her perfect 10 record and you know what? It's filled with basically all bangers no filler.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Felt a bit too 90’s but I spun it twice so it must be alright.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Lay down your soul to the gods rock and roll/Metal tenfold through the deadly black hole/Riding Hell's stallions bareback and free/Taking our chances with raw energy/Come ride the night with us, rock hard and fight/United my legions we stand/Freak hard and wild for us, give up your souls/Live for the quest Satan's band It's gonna be one star for me Clive.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Some bangers and stuff that is later sampled to great effect, but some of it just feels corny.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Hard to imagine an easier 5 stars. Mr. Redding is absolutely crushing classics here.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Not sure if they invented or just perfected the rock n roll ballad but they really bring it.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Music that is so Mid and lowkey stupid (see Ceiling Fan in My Spoon), that I cannot believe anyone bothered to actually write it down, let alone put it to music, put together a band, and record it in the studio. Some of it sounds ok.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

This is supposed to be his worst one, but the instruments aren't as bad as people act. Great background music, not quite enough there there for a 5 from me.

Cypress Hill

2/5

Not bad, not really hitting in 2025 though.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

1/5

This is currently 5 hours worth of live music on album and one of 22 live albums these dudes have released. Nahhhhh mate, I am not biting on this.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

This music was basically designed specifically for me when I was in high school and came out at the perfect time for me in high school and I did not love it then and do not love it now. It is not offensive. It is not bad. It is long. I dunno why, maybe my Sea Change days will come. I will experience a Sea Change and I will love Sea Change.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Extraterrestrial brothers, dealers of funky music. What else is there to say??

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

An all timer in innovating music. Re-thinking what music can be, making it for a cool purpose and absolutely crushing the assignment. There is beauty in liminal spaces and being in the in between.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Not bad. Chill, doesn't really grab me.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Easy 5. Propulsive and smooth. Greatest soundtrack to an evening ever made.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

It's alright, a couple are catchy.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Great sound and voice.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

It’s alright and some of it quite good but a bit dark and over the top

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

No comment

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Johnny sounds great, the prison crowd adds an element, and June is one of a kind.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

I won't revisit this, but it sounds pretty cool.

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

MF'ers (correctly?) forgot about Nas.

1977

Ash

2/5

Not bad, a bit generic and didn't speak to me.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

1/5

No way I could make a full hour of this.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

The generator gave me this in Seattle. Incredible and has to be 5 stars for that, but it isn't my favorite Elliott Smith record.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

It's a 4.5, but come on, love her. Iconic music video from the era and a unique voice in the world.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

It's a vibe

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Kind of enjoyable, very boring. A precursor to Explosions in the Sky.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

An easy 5 if obviously shy of what he hits on Blonde.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

So, so, so, so, so long and quite dated. A few great hooks.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

If vibes alone could get five stars, this would be there. He sounds like an absolute rascal and it's a vibe. But let's face it, some so so covers and not a ton of new ideas here. Just a pipesman singing out his soul, which is something to behold.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Could be a 4. A little Louisiana precursor to Tom Waits and short which is nice.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Probably a 4.5, but feel like rounding down for some reason. It's just not quite 5 territory.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Very chill. It has that "make Indian music palatable to white people" feel that was around in the 60's. You could grade or read to this (or really, nap to it) and have a good time.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

A very definition of 3 meh album. Coming Back to Me is a great song though and, I believe, very effectively featured in the movie about Steve Prefontaine, Without Limits iirc.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

5/5

Iconic record filled with highlights. A fourteen minute long song with just guitar and two vocals to cap it off and it doesn't feel too long.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

Essentially a Dylan cover record. Give me the OG himself I say.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Not fully my cup of tea, but it's a lot of fun and the synths sound great.