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Album	You	Global	Diff
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.46	+2.54
Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely	5	2.68	+2.32
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	5	2.76	+2.24
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	5	2.82	+2.18
Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso	5	2.85	+2.15
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.92	+2.08
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro	5	2.95	+2.05
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Bill Callahan	5	3.02	+1.98
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.03	+1.97
Kimono My House Sparks	5	3.06	+1.94

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
Pearl Janis Joplin	1	3.71	-2.71
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.64	-2.64
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	1	3.57	-2.57
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.45	-2.45
Aqualung Jethro Tull	1	3.43	-2.43
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.4	-2.4
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.31	-2.31
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	1	3.3	-2.3
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.27	-2.27

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	4.5
The Beach Boys	3	4.67
Beatles	3	4.67
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
Talking Heads	2	5
Fleetwood Mac	2	5
The Who	4	4.25
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33
The Velvet Underground	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Eminem	2	1
Deep Purple	2	1.5
Iron Maiden	2	1.5

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Classic and will likely always be so-5 stars

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

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

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

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

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

Are they the greatest British band since The Style Council?

Why so many CCR records? Eye roll

These songs hold up

They are the best

Excellent. Must listen more

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

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

Excellent work

Should listen to more

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

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

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

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

They walk what they talk

I don’t ever need to hear spoon man again

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

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

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

Good lord TWO Eminem albums. Lame

Did not listen

An early set of classics from the boys

Top tier GBV

I wonder if Dan Bejar digs Supertramp. Probably.

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!!

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

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

5 stars, really, for Any Major Dude but the whole thing is solid

This project really seems focused on convincing everyone that 90s UK club music is the most significant music created by humans. I wonder when the authors happened to be 22 years old lol.

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