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Album	You	Global	Diff
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.83	+2.17
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.5	+1.5
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.55	+1.45
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	5	3.79	+1.21
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
Spiderland Slint	4	2.98	+1.02
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Smash The Offspring	1	3.37	-2.37
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.48	-1.48
Third Soft Machine	1	2.43	-1.43
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.43	-1.43
Garbage Garbage	2	3.38	-1.38
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.37	-1.37
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	2	3.31	-1.31
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	2	3.17	-1.17
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	2	3.11	-1.11

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Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Complete miss on all accounts. Not sure what they were going for in this album? I want to call it experimental noise jazz? It’s fine to set out to make an album that sounds like nothing else ever done, but I feel like it has to have something that keeps the listener engaged.

1 likes

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

West coast meets east coast production. Definitely feel the Public Enemy’s production team on this album. Cool backstory with Ice meeting Chuck D and Chuck D dropping him off in a warehouse in Long Island filled wall to wall with records for 10 days and have him pick out his records for the album. Dr. Dre nowhere to be found to hand him the beats. Ahhh the days before the East Coast West Coast beef. Great record and his 1st stepping away from NWA and heading east.

1 likes

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Can definitely hear who inspired Brandi Carlile with this album.

1 likes

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

1-Star Albums (3)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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The Clash

4/5

Wow! I mean I knew The Clash influenced a lot of punk bands, and I can totally hear a few in this album. Operation Ivy and Dead Milkmen to name a couple.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Not really my style but I can hear why they were popular in the 70’s era. While listening I could hear how they may have been an influence for Belle and Sebastian.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

To be a fly on the wall when this album was made.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Enjoyed this before bed with headphones. Doesn’t grab the way Kind of Blue does but a good listen none the less

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Where has this album been in my 48 years. Funk, R&B, Soul, Style and Essence. What an album.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Never heard of Count Basie before. Enjoyed this album. The bass, meets and horns are all amazing.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Love that I’ve found this album. Screams New York City to me. I have a hard time liking albums with female lead singers (I have no idea why it’s just something I’ve noticed) but I love this album.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Very Beatlesque. Seems like they went away from the pop hits on this one.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Definitely not an album I would have ever listened to. I did listen to the album 3 times thru. The last time I listened while reading translations of the lyrics into English. Not an album I would listen to again. Not my style. One of the first things I thought of when I started listening to this was that there was so much art and changes going on in the world in the 60’s and this was definitely not part of the progression.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

I gave it 3 stars due to Tiny Dancer. It says that this is his prog album but I’m not hearing much of that genre.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

Fucking so weird. My first taste of Zappa and I am blown away. Genius. Punk. Psychedelic. Funk. Blues. Dripping LSD. Psychosis. Complete mind fuck.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Pure teenage memories. Angst, anti system, anti imperialism. It formed a part of me that I can’t deny. The entire album does not let up and just continues to deliver on its message.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Solid album. Definitely took me back to a time in my life during a rough breakup. Great songwriting and a great shame that he left us so early.

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

1970’s glam rock…so bad. Basic, theatrical, shallow, over produced. 2nd spin was a better listen.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

Garbage

2/5

Not my style. Definitely came in on the back end to capitalize on post grunge Portishead wannabes. Had some ok songs but felt over produced.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

I guess you would call this Big Band Jazz, at least I would. Not something I would listen to again. Definitely appreciate the talent, just not for me

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Can definitely hear who inspired Brandi Carlile with this album.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Bass lines are good. Decent album from the ex bassist from PIL that got his nickname when Sid Vicious drunkenly pronounced his name wrong and it stuck

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Not much to say…just is not my style. I understand what the critics say they she’s going for, but I couldn’t get down with it.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Drone sounding, lush, definitely early 90’s sound that influenced bands a few years later…The Sunday’s, Lush, Ride. Appreciate the musical direction of the album but just didn’t grab ahold of me.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

What a silky smooth voice. Just closed my eyes and listened to one of the greats.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

2 1/2 Stars. First half of the album is pretty basic. Starting with the track with Marley which is a banger, the rest of the album is tighter.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

2 1/2 stars. Has that Strokes wannabe feel. Wasn’t unlistenable but not ground breaking in any way

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Classic. Definitely brings back some great memories from my teenage years. What a great time in the music scene to be growing up. This album and it’s accompanying videos left a mark on my teenage life.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Some of the most important songs from this era are on this album. Love how his guitar plays in your right ear and his voice in your left.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Though I’m partial to Gish, this album is flawless also. Brings me right back to high school and the sadness I was feeling at the time because a girlfriend moved across the country and we had to split. Oh how I thought nothing would ever compare to those times and in a way they don’t. They existed in their own way, forever a part of me. Certain album just take you right back to that time in your life, and this is definitely one that does it for me.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

I wore out a Sergio Mendes album that I “stole” from my stepdad. Loved that album. I wish I would have found this album sooner.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Got so deep into this album in my late teens, early 20’s. We listened to this album non stop on Biscayne Blvd. A lot of crazy shit went down in that house and this album was part of the soundtrack to some great memories.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

I’ve come across this album in the past. I can appreciate the beauty of the album, it’s just not something I would have in steady rotation.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Discovered these guys late. Great album. I remember it coming out right before my first son’s birth. I couldn’t get down with anything by them after this album.

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

Awful

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Love this album. Listened to this non stop in my early 20’s when I was devouring anything and everything by Radiohead.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Art Brut…Art Brut. Could not think of the band that I hear when I am listening to this album. Also a little Artic Monkeys. The Stanglers definitely had influenced those band and probably many more in Britain

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

I can’t get that hour back. This album is horrible, unlistenable, ridiculous. Wish I could give it no stars

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Great album. For an album that’s over 45 years old, it feels so fresh and boundary pushing.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Automatic 5 stars. I played this over and over and over in my teenage years. I would wake up to it, fall asleep to it, take LSD and listen to this with my eyes closed and let the drug take over behind my closed eyelids

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

Nice flow. Like his earlier mixtapes that were floating around in the early 2000’s. I remember buying one on the streets in Manhattan.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Love this album. Shame it didn’t get the recognition it deserved until after they broke up.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

This album is flawless.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Sympathy, Street Fighting Man and No Expectations are great tunes. Could leave the rest.

Adele

2/5

1st track on the album was strong, then it just became background noise.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Album got better as it went on. Not really feeling this album. It has a theatrical feel.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

He was never really my style during this time of my life when the album was released. It’s got a few tunes on it that I enjoyed.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

AM sounding (of course) but it seems like they are trying to get “political” or catch up with the times (60’s counterculture). Student Demonstration Time sounds like a total Beatles ripoff.

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

When I was a kid, I would be browsing at Sam Goody in the 1980’s and pass the “J’s” and see Judas Priest albums. I was more frightened by the covers than I was interested in what they might sound like. So scarred I was that at 48 years old this is the first Judas Priest album I’ve ever heard. It’s a shame because I probably would have dug this album more I had listened to it back then in my heavy metal phase of music. It is typical 80’s heavy metal that served a time and place for the metal genre.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

I’ve heard El Paso near 1000 times when Bob Weir sings it with The Dead. Cool to hear the original. I enjoyed these old western cowboy tunes. Great song writing about a time that’s long past us. Takes you there with his storytelling.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

What an album! What a genius! Way ahead of his time. There’s beauty in this album. Not a lot of pain but beauty.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Man love some old school Gen X gangsta rap. The songs that drove Tipper Gore mad. Solid album for Ice T it just didn’t age well

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

Has some decent songs that had an almost Lou Reed feel, but then it had some songs that were just background music.