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Album	You	Global	Diff
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	5	2.75	+2.25
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.05	+1.95
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard Thompson	5	3.05	+1.95
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	5	3.23	+1.77
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.31	+1.69
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.32	+1.68
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	1	3.76	-2.76
Boston Boston	1	3.71	-2.71
...And Justice For All Metallica	1	3.43	-2.43
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	1	3.38	-2.38
C'est Chic CHIC	1	3.34	-2.34
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	1	3.24	-2.24
The Visitors ABBA	1	3.2	-2.2
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	1	3.11	-2.11
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	1	3.07	-2.07

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Public Enemy	2	5
The Velvet Underground	2	5
Pixies	2	5

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Metallica	2	1.5

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Boston

1/5

I have heard this album in snippets. It is usually just as it starts, I figure it is Boston, and however long it takes me to change the station. I know some people call it one of the best debut albums of all time but they are all drinking Budweiser in their garage talking about the good ole days.

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Peak Kanye. His ego had already blown up and you can feel it on this record but it doesn't take away from it. I have never been a huge Ye stan but this album got a lot of play in my house when it came out.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

I had never listened to this album. I had heard Joni before but always dismissed it as grocery store music. I stand corrected. It is light and airy but not what I had previously perceived. Joni had a lot of influence on artists that I like but I never gave her a chance. Great voice. Great music. My preconceived notions were wrong.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

How this album has escaped me is beyond me. Garage/Psych rock. Their influences are worn on their sleeve and done to great effect. The record is well done, I feel like The Zutons would be amazing to see live. I don't really get the comparisons to The Coral, but I was not a fan of them back in the day so I am biased.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

One of my all-time favorite artists. The first C.D. I ever got was Bjork's Post album when I was 11 and it shaped my tastes to come. My Mom was working with some younger people at a publishing company. She was buying me a C.D. player for Christmas and asked them what would be something interesting that her son who is into alternative music should listen to...and I got Post...and my mind was blown. I promptly saved up money from the little farm job I was doing and bought Debut. She would open my world to music beyond Grunge at the time. I would dive into Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, and anything Trip-Hop.

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

I have never been a fan of Rush. I like prog type music but Rush always seemed like music for men in jorts who say racist things to their friends in a garage while drinking swill beer. Not a fan of my pre-conceived notion, I can appreciate the music, but I won't go back to this record in the future or Rush's catalog. I know that it is a pretentious opinion. While I am not a fan of Rush I can see the appeal,

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1/5

This was a lot to ingest. A lot of music. A lot of filler. Just a lot. There is something to be said about self editing.

Common

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

1/5

I have my preconceived notions about some albums/bands. Metallica is in that Mt. Rushmore. I listen just as you all do anyway. I get the appeal but it is just not for me.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

I love jazz but don't dive as much as I should. I love this album. It is a great making dinner for someone you love while it is playing type album. You don't need to focus on the notes just shuffle around the kitchen while it plays in the back.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Great Sunday morning coffee album on a Summer day. Oddly the second Getz record I have gotten in a row but I'm not mad about it.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

I have listened to this album more times than I can count. While not my favorite REM album I still enjoy it. My old roommate was obsessed with REM and I had gone through their catalog. The band never really latched onto me as it had him, but it reminds me of frantically cleaning our apartment from half empty beer cans, bongs, and cigarette butts when his Mom would make a surprise visit.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

1/5

Boston

1/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The definition of arena rock. An amazing album. Bombastic. I have never been a huge Zeppelin fan but this record may have swayed my opinion.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

I want to hate this album but it holds sentimental value. When my son was an infant, he is 20 now, he loved the song Yellow. It would soothe him to sleep even if he was being fussy. I can't give it 4 or 5 stars but a 3 seems fitting.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

A staple in the CD collection of every girl I dated in high school, along with Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, and the soundtrack to Rent. I will say I had an affliction for arty girls. This album pulls at the strings of my nostalgia. I was 13 or 14 when this record came out, working at an ice cream shop and having a side hustle with the gas station across the street where I would give them free malts/shakes for packs of cigarettes that I would later sell to kids at a mark up. It was a lucrative venture. This album and Better Than Ezra were the soundtrack of that Summer. Late nights slinging ice cream, flirting with girls, and using my ill begotten gains to buy bottle rockets that my friends and I would have wars with. The album hasn't aged well but it is a perfect moment in time. I would put August and Everything After by Counting Crows in the same category. In that I have so many memories where the music was playing. It is strange sometimes how we can pinpoint moments from a single song. I don't love the record but I cannot hate it either.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

1/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

This is an album that you have to listen to when the circumstances are right. It is breezy and light. A bright Summer day either driving around or grilling out in the backyard. Feeling warmth on your face. Today was not that day for me but I couldn't deny the mood I wished I was in. World music gets little love but this album is uplifting. I got me off the couch and temporarily relived my malaise. It made me want to grill some burgers, sip some cold drinks, and vibe with friends. I don't know what the fuck they are saying but the heart behind it is felt.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

I feel like The Vines were riding on the US garage rock revival that greeted us with The Strokes and The White Stripes, sonically those two bands had different sounds but got lumped together. I had dismissed The Vines as hangers on as I did as well with bands like The Hives. I stand by that assessment. I can't put my finger on why but they seem to try to hard. I don't hate it but I don't love it either. I can get my fix of the music of that era elsewhere.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

This album holds significance to me. When this record came out I was 12 years old and it was a staple at the time. There was girl that was the neighbor to my best friend. Her Mom was dating the neighbors Dad. She was from another town and went to another school so she didn't know what a dweeb I was so she would hang out with us/me. I remember she had come over to my friend's house and we listened to the album in his room. She had this perfume that smelled like coconut that was popular at the time but I don't recall the brand. She really loved the song "She" so we had that on repeat. Later we watch Pet Sematary Two, it was awful but the girl and I weren't paying much attention. We were cuddled up together and I was all in my adolescent feels. Once the movie ended my friend and I walked her home, it was cold outside and she had a thin coat. Me being a gentleman gave her my Charlotte Hornets starter jacket to wear. Once we got to her place she pulled me in and kissed me, my first real kiss tongue and all. I stood there petrified not knowing what to do, butterflies fluttering. It was brief but memorable and embarrassing now. She gave me back my coat and it smelled like her for weeks. I would play Dookie on a loop for the next couple weeks. Eventually she made friends that went to my school and she attended for one day. The friends she made were the popular girls and it didn't take long for her to find out I was not very cool and broke up with me that day. I was crestfallen. That said, I can't hear this album without thinking about that brief moment in time. Not that she hurt me cause I wasn't cool enough, hell I knew I wasn't cool and she might be out of my league. It was the kiss and the smell of her.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I have always respected Costello but never really listened to a lot of his albums. When I was living in Canada the closest place to buy music was a Radio Shack in Fort Frances. I picked up When I Was Cruel on a whim and a need to hear something new and there was a lack of options. I had listened to This Year's Model and enjoyed it in the past. I lived with a girl in Minneapolis with her Mom and Brother. Her Brother would play a lot of music that I would end up loving and we would talk artists. We would smoke cigarettes in the basement and drink beer. He looked like your stereotypical late 20's that never grew out of the mid 90's, flannel and goatee. Elvis Costello came up a couple times but this album never did. I enjoyed a few tracks on this album but I can't see myself going back to it. The Long Honeymoon and Almost Blue stood out for me.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

1/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

I had a friend that was obsessed with Depeche Mode. Until I had met him I had only hear their hits. I mean I get the appeal, but really I would rather listen to something else with the same feel. It could just be my affinity to The Cure.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Music for the kids that took drama in High School...and I was in drama.

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

I don't know how to feel about this one. I don't hate it but I don't love it either. Nothing grabs me.

Lost Souls

Doves

5/5

Amazing album. It is a dreary day record or one listened to on a long drive alone. This record was on heavy rotation when I first heard it. They managed to do what Coldplay attempted by trying to be the mash up of Oasis and Radiohead. I love this album and their follow up The Last Broadcast, which I might like more.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Love this album. James Murphy and LCD aren't for everyone but those who dig it it is an awesome record. Great listen for cleaning the house, getting ready for a night out, just wanting to dance around the kitchen like an idiot.

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Flawless

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

How is this the first time I have heard this album? I mean I took on this 1001 album challenge to potentially expose myself to some music I might have previously not heard or written off, but this record is something I feel like I should have been exposed to LONG LONG AGO. Why? It is hard for me to place what genre I would put it in. It isn't punk, it isn't new wave, it isn't jangle pop. I can't define it but I am happy to have found it.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Not my favorite Kanye album, really doesn't hit. I can separate him from when this album, or any, was released. Not my jam.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

808 State

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

I See You

The xx

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

5/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Adele

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

I feel like this is the most overrated punk album of all time. I will die on that hill.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

The Specials

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Joan Baez

2/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

1/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Metallica

2/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

1/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

5/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

1/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

1/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

The Visitors

ABBA

1/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Moby Grape

1/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

2/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

The Band

2/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

The La's

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Elastica

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5