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Album	You	Global	Diff
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	4	2.29	+1.71
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	5	3.42	+1.58
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.43	+1.57
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.44	+1.56
Aja Steely Dan	5	3.46	+1.54
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.56	+1.44
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.61	+1.39
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.68	+1.32
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	1	3.66	-2.66
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	1	3.5	-2.5
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
Here Are the Sonics The Sonics	1	3.16	-2.16
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	1	3.09	-2.09
I See You The xx	1	2.99	-1.99
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.67	-1.67
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.5	-1.5

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Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

I don't think Pop Punk exists without this album. I will not explain my reasoning.

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1-Star Albums (7)

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Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Never really got The Smiths. It was pretty good but wouldn't buy a copy.

Pretenders

4/5

The Pretenders are a band people don't really talk about that much, but when you listen to them you can hear exactly how they influenced a whole swath of modern artists.

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Smooth Operator is a certified banger and it's maybe the 4th best song on this album. Masterful.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

I don't think Pop Punk exists without this album. I will not explain my reasoning.

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Very dissonant. The final track sounds like a bad Pink Floyd song.

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

Also dissonant, but somehow in a way I appreciate better. Was surprised at how much I noticed their influence on RHCP

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

The music is very good and Morrissey is obviously a great lyricist, but I do not enjoy the way he sings.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

Yet another I just couldn't get into.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Duet Solo Dancers is one of my favorite jazz tracks

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Classic, lots of great tracks

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Pretty good, title track might be my least favorite on the album

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

I mean, it's brilliant

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

I find the radio versions of the hits from this record (which is half the songs on the record) pack more of a punch and make for a better overall experience, but listening to the album versions is like watching the director's cut of a movie.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

I mean...

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

I think this is proto-emo

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Feels like Gorillaz weren't fully dialed in yet but the highs are so high they drown out the lows

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

I don't understand why this is important. The music is fine but it mostly feels like it belongs as background noise in a grocery store or something.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Not something I'd listen to on a regular basis but I like how experimental it feels. They may not have struck gold but they really tried some stuff.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

This is a truly great album but I would love to have a version without all the vibe-interrupting interludes.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

What in the world is "important" about this album? Mostly feels like a knockoff of the better stuff he made 20+ years before. (apparently it's important because the E-Street Band reunited to respond to 9/11, which means this mediocre album probably sold a billion copies.

Roxy Music

3/5

They're doing too much. This album mixes like 5 or 6 different genres with no cohesive theme. Most individual songs are pretty good on their own but as an album it's kind of a jumbled mess.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

Lots of bangers, 4 stars

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Not my favorite Temptations album but it's still the Temps

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

I have trouble with the Beatles because everything they do is so old hat now but a lot of it was brand new when they started doing it.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Lyrics can be pretty dated but the music is good

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Good, very 80s/confusion about what the 90s are gonna be-coded

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Not memorable but fine. 2 stars

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Just good vibes the whole time. 4 stars

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

meh. 2 stars

The Coral

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Van Halen

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Honestly a little disappointed

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

1/5

Trash

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

I liked it, but not enough to seek out more.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

It's pretty good, just not my thing.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

at least 2 songs were better than the end of the world as we know it.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

It's good but it varies so much sonically that it doesn't form a cohesive album.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

If you cut out the 10 worst tracks it'd be a phenomenal album.

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

Perfectly fine

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

The Specials

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

California

American Music Club

2/5

meh

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Wild how Ice Cube went from F**** the Police to the cuddly softboi he is now.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

2/5

Kinda did nothing for me

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

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

I don't hate it but the 40ish minutes feels like abut 3 hours

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Pretty good, guitar is mixed way too loud or it would be even better

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

I don't think the original recording is mixed particularly well or this would be 5 stars.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

1/5

To me this is just some white guys trying to sound like Little Richard.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

3/5

Almost got 4

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Even remastered it still sounds grimy and dirty, which is good.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

This is not a totally accurate description but I'm calling this album "The Sad Hot Chili Peppers" This band did not deserve 2 albums on the list

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

I wanted to give it 4, but it just doesn't grab me like I hoped it would.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

The Beach Boys' production quality is out of this world

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

2/5

meh

I See You

The xx

1/5

Amazing that this much production can result in something so boring

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

A producer who wasn't scared to say "no" would've cut like 10 tracks off of this. Still great though.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Parklife

Blur

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

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

David Bowie

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

It's not one of my favorite Kanye's but it's still very good and predates his descent

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

Worst beatle

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

1/5

Worst Beatle

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

It's good but it kind of all blurs together

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Technically very good, not for me

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

I like this era of Bowie a lot but for whatever reason his albums don't hold my attention all the way through

Os Mutantes

3/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Fantastic

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Also very good, also doesn't fully hold my attention

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Pretty good

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

I almost love it. It has something but it's not all the way there.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Every time I want to dock points it hits me with another banger

War

2/5

Maybe if Bono didn't sound like he sounds...

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Masterpiece. Will buy this on vinyl when the opportunity arises.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

significantly better than I expected

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

North American Scum alone would've gotten it 3 stars

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

2/5

meh

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

3.4 rounds down to 3

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Really waffled but I think it's too important for 3 stars so it barely slides into 4

Common

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Nothing to write home about

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

All of the songs are fantastic but to me it doesn't feel like a cohesive album. Probably still gonna buy it though.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

1/5

Possibly the worst driving music I've ever suffered through. Maybe I would've enjoyed it in a more relaxed atmosphere

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Masterpiece, might have an f-slur in it though, I need to check the lyrics

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

1/5

It's just an African Gospel choir? I've heard better ones.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5