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Album	You	Global	Diff
Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely	5	2.68	+2.32
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	5	2.75	+2.25
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	5	2.94	+2.06
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.02	+1.98
Kimono My House Sparks	5	3.06	+1.94
John Prine John Prine	5	3.21	+1.79
Risque CHIC	5	3.27	+1.73
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	5	3.27	+1.73
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.3	+1.7

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
Pearl Janis Joplin	1	3.72	-2.72
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.66	-2.66
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	1	3.58	-2.58
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.48	-2.48
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.32	-2.32
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.28	-2.28
Make Yourself Incubus	1	3.07	-2.07
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	1	2.99	-1.99

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Beach Boys	3	4.67
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Eminem	2	1

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Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices · 1 likes

5/5

Top tier GBV

1-Star Albums (11)

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

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Such a 90's sound but all the songs sound the same. Shame if you listen to this rather than The Strokes or even Franz Ferdinand. Though I wonder if FF all sounds the same now too. I bet it might.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Beautiful. I'm sad I put this album for so many years. Go listen to it now.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Maybe the most Boomer band ever, but I neglected them unfairly. This was a super solid record. No other band sounds like CCR, that alone puts them on many lists

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Geez, four albums in an we're in a boomer vs boomer influence contest. This is fine, but the Hard To Handle cover seems embarrassing all these years later. If I ask why didn't people just go direct and play the Stone/Zeppelin do I sound too Gen X snarky? Because its fine if I do

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

OK, this is one more album that I'm glad I had to check out. Bohemian Rhapsody is of course the highlight, but there was a lot to discover. British music hall inspiration, more gay themes, and just a great polish to all the songs. Great to hear these songs in their original album context

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Classic junior high school album with junior high school attitude and intellect. Kicked off a great career and there are so many highs in front of these boys.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Excellent intro to Fairport, Richard Thompson & Sandy Denny. You can hear how their influence cascades down the years!

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Hmm, I'll have to listen more. Too skronky for now but clearly talented

Risque

CHIC

5/5

Classic and will likely always be so-5 stars

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

A second excellent Chic release. A chill jazz groove after that stellar single and then quiet dance tracks for most of the album.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

2/5

not for me. Powerful voice used to only do one thing mainly. Couldn't get to the second half. The many singles are well done though

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

Influential. What a chiming sound she created and used for all her other albums. Matthew Sweet should pay her royalties. Great stuff, brilliant writer

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Great tunes from a wanker but he sure can write a title

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

5/5

Amazing. This gave the Ramones their career, so it deserves five stars just for that fact. Beautiful harmonies. No wonder it's lasted

1999

Prince

5/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Boston

3/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Are they the greatest British band since The Style Council?

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Why so many CCR records? Eye roll

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

These songs hold up

Ramones

5/5

They are the best

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

Excellent. Must listen more

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Less silent than I recall. It would be so cool to hear Miles play with the current crop of people making varied ambient music, esp out of the folk scene

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Perfect renditions of classic songs. A record for your entire life

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Excellent work

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

Should listen to more

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Still more Boomer classics. Pretty harmonies. But pretty boring too. 3 stars, not sure it needs that many

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Fine. Why does the book’s author keep picking such early career (& 90s) albums? Gets boring. Three stars

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Fine but there better be two more Tribe albums on this list

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

So many bangers. Knocked one point off because of the laughable Charlie’s Angels plug at the top

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

They walk what they talk

Superunknown

Soundgarden

1/5

I don’t ever need to hear spoon man again

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Interesting. Fine. Cool that he worked with David Lynch. But why are there two Barry Adamson albums on this list. Maybe the algorithm doesn’t actually represent the book

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

Bjork is great obviously. Listening to one-and-a-quarter Sugarcubes albums, I can see why she left after three records. Also, the songs with the guy singing too are pretty crap. Parodies of euro music to come

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

If you wanted to encapsulate this entire mediocre list into one album, this is it. British, 90s, not actually relevant. Awful cover art to boot. WTF

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

Good lord TWO Eminem albums. Lame

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Did not listen

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

5/5

An early set of classics from the boys

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

5/5

Top tier GBV

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

1/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Elvis Presley

5/5

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

I wonder if Dan Bejar digs Supertramp. Probably.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

1/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Tom Tom Club

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Now this a worthwhile boomer rock rec. the confidence they had to keep Mrs Robinson and Hazy Shade of Winter for the end of the album!!

The Undertones

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Songs were not as long as I assumed from this band of old jammers. Drums good.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

Kenya

Machito

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Pretenders

5/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

1/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

War

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

Faith

George Michael

2/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Like an even more intentional combination of Springsteen & Destroyer re Poison Season. Plus a little Dire Straights in there

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Paul Simon

4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

1/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Van Halen

4/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

1/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

1/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

John Prine

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Guero

Beck

2/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Eagles

2/5