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Album	You	Global	Diff
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	2.29	+2.71
Public Image: First Issue Public Image Ltd.	5	2.42	+2.58
Odessa Bee Gees	5	2.72	+2.28
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	5	2.85	+2.15
Mask Bauhaus	5	2.85	+2.15
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	5	2.9	+2.1
Black Monk Time The Monks	5	2.94	+2.06
Superfuzz Bigmuff Mudhoney	5	2.94	+2.06
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Megadeth	5	2.98	+2.02
Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club	5	3.03	+1.97

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	1	3.47	-2.47
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	1	3.43	-2.43
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.41	-2.41
Cross Justice	1	3.27	-2.27
Being There Wilco	1	3.23	-2.23
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	1	3.05	-2.05
At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash	2	3.98	-1.98
The Last Of The True Believers Nanci Griffith	1	2.95	-1.95

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	4	4.5
R.E.M.	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
Nick Drake	2	5
Cocteau Twins	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
The White Stripes	2	5
Beatles	2	5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Talking Heads	1, 5
Johnny Cash	5, 2
Metallica	5, 5, 2, 4

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...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Odd choice considering Master of Puppets is widely thought of as the best Metallica album and is a much more cohesive entry into their discography. Reminds me of better days before wealthy people decided they hated less stupidly rich people and decided to take a shit all over every attempt they made to make their miserable life a little less miserable. Fuck Metallica.

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1-Star Albums (15)

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Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Fantastic album I never would have tracked down. The Girl From Ipamena is well known, but I had never heard the version with Portuguese lyrics and a male voice. The rest of the album was a fantastic showing of classic bossa nova / jazz music, things I never really explored beyond the somewhat related jazz / swing / ska of the 90s.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

I missed the 90s era of hip hop, was fully into metal and grunge/post-punk back then. I can hear why this group hit the levels they did, but at the same time I can understand why this album in particular did not perform as well as some of their later releases. There is a great amount of repetition, and some of the hooks and loops are so short that the ear is begging for some resolution that never comes. Can I Kick It? is one track I remember hearing during its heyday, and listening to it again all I can think is how I wish the loop would resolve into something more developed than a re-loop. Good stuff and an absolutely fantastic sample of the Golden Age of Hip Hop. More complicated than much of the rap that came earlier, but not nearly as angry (while still needing a number of listens to appreciate) as the also-emerging gangsta rap. I am a little sad I missed out on this when it was new, it seems perfect for the time in the same way that Nirvana was - This release was integral to the sound of the time, but as a release did not have nearly the impact later releases did, much like Bleach vs Nevermind. Does anyone else here Sheryl Crow's 'All I Wanna Do' in a number of the breaks?

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Nice treat.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Not listening to a Nazi

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

The Doors are tough for me. On the one hand, the stuff I really like I *really* like. On the other hand, I don't like most of their stuff. Morrison's voice gets nasally and whiny, and while the instruments behind him are great he distracts from their quality. It's no wonder he died at 27, and everything that lead up to that shows through in his voice.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

1/5

To be honest, this one was a struggle. It took me most of the day to make it through, and it wasn't the best experience. Individually, the songs ranged from fine to good. Dissonance can be a useful story telling tool in music, but their reliance on it throughout their tracks is too much. I wonder if maybe live it wouldn't be quite as painful for my ears, if maybe the production value (which seemed fairly high) on the album ended up making the dissonance far worse to sit through.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

It was okay, but not my cup of tea. It was interesting to note that The B-52's were just as 'out there' from their 1st album as they were later in their career, but that same 'out there' aspect takes me out of the music and into wondering what they were on when they wrote and recorded it.

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

I found it quite boring. I think, in context, it was likely a fantastic work at the time of release and had an impact. The radio/MTV song on there appears to have been one of the first crossover tracks, and the album itself appears to have been a record maker - but frankly I found the beats boring, the rap basic (though rhymes were good), and overall that the album doesn't stand up against their later releases. It is an album I wish I could go back and listen to *in context*, but sadly without that context it is mediocre to me.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

This - was - amazing. I don't typically listen to rap/hip-hop, but oh my goodness that might need to change. I have been exposed to more through this site than I ever would have on my own, and aside from one mediocre (to me, and likely just because it's out of context to its release date) experience and one album skipped because an insane Nazi was the recording artist (Ye know the one), they have all been spectacular. This release showed the different styles of the guys in OutKast, without excluding the other's influence from shining through. The melding of the lyrical artist with the producing artist combined with the distinct styles of rap and genre bending - chef's kiss. I am currently listening to the rest of their catalog because I was so blown away by this release. I kind of feel bad about how much I discounted them due to Hey Ya! being so overplayed when released - but it felt 'right' where it was in the pack of tracks on display here.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Enjoyable, but not really my type of music. The variety on the release kept anything from being stale, seems to be a nice cross-section of sounds from the time.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Cross

Justice

1/5

I had to quit at the 4th track. Started out kind of promising, similar to the Tron Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk. 4th track went back towards DP's earlier work, where the good stuff was punched in the face over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (ad nauseum) with noise by people pretending their stuff doesn't sound like shit. And then people lapped that shit up like the good little dogs they are.

Being There

Wilco

1/5

Good god I cannot stand country and their bullshit baby whiny fucking voices.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Not the best of McCartney, not sure that being just post-Beatles justifies how short and non-technical the songs are. Considering his impact as a member of The Beatles, I frankly expected quite a bit more adventure on these tracks, something more like Peter Gabriel post-Genesis. Instead it comes out as someone figuring they don't need to bother, it'll be successful no matter what - and it was.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Oh so good - there's a reason it was one of, if not the, highest performing release of their too short career. Everything is effortlessly tight and connected. Led Zeppelin always had a knack for making extreme complexity feel like a group of stoned out friends jamming in their garage, and I can't think of another album from them that proves it as clearly as this one.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

As I go through all these albums, many of which I've never heard or just heard a few tracks from, I am learning that my tastes have drastically changed from when I was younger. Tom Waits was always, in my mind, a country singer - not entirely sure why because I checked out some more of his stuff after listening to this and it hardly seems fair to chuck him into any genre bin at all. I enjoyed the album. It's not something I'll go back to on a regular basis, but it definitely got put on my 'listen to something outside of my normal' playlist. Normally the lack of a coherent 'style' across the album would throw me off enjoying it, but his talent for altering his vocals to fit the playing style on display kept me from even noticing the overly broad (not in a bad way) range of music.

Music

Madonna

3/5

It was just okay. I can't really knock it, it was Madonna and definitely one of her stronger showings. Problem, for me, is that Madonna seems to get a great sound stuck in her head and not really know what to do with it, so she just loops it over and over. Being as this is a pretty electronica album, that repetition kind of turns into noise, though not really in a bad way. It's just that the album is the kind of music to play in a store - non offensive to the ears, but also incapable of distracting people from shopping - just background noise (though not quite elevator music).

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

I vaguely remember this when it came out, but definitely slipped by me. It's kind of odd, some of the music is pretty heavily influenced by country/western, but since her voice doesn't get into the whiny/nasally range of most of that, it worked well. Makes me understand I don't dislike country as a style of music, I just dislike the whiny noises the people that 'sing' it create.

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

While I can appreciate the concept behind it, this thing was not nearly as enjoyable as it could have been due to the content. Have to give props for basically kick starting a genre, but not the first artist I'll probably never listen to (on purpose) again due to some of the subject matter. It's a good 'struggling getting older and dealing with it all' album, but I can't listen to it with my son around.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

The Boss

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Ramones

5/5

S&M

Metallica

5/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

The Band

5/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

what is this trash, why doesn't he sing?

Mask

Bauhaus

5/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Better than ever before since the jackass in chief is in a pissing war so he can bathe his face in yellow pee.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

5/5

I never got into shoegaze barring one band (Silversun Pickups - one of a handful of 'buy unheard' groups left for me), but this release makes it more compelling than when it had its heyday. While I can appreciate it for what came after, though, I felt it relied on the aethereal voice modulation aspect more than on any actual song lyrics. Sure they're there but lyrically they seemed to focus on one type of vocal over the other, whereas Silversun Pickups has the lead lyrics and the aethereal vocals happening at the same time. That said, I put more of their discography on after I finished this album and there is quite a lot to like in there, and I feel secure in saying that one of my favorite bands wouldn't exist if they hadn't paved the way, so a 5-star from me.

Smile

Brian Wilson

5/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

1/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Tom Tom Club

5/5

Boston

5/5

Parklife

Blur

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

The Specials

4/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

5/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

5/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

The Cars

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

5/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

Fred Neil

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

5/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

This isn't even the okayest RHCP to choose, but beyond that there is absolutely nothing about anything RHCP ever released that is worthly of being included in a list of anything to do before you die, aside from maybe '1001 artists to ignore before you die because they're not worth the recognition they get'

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

Really not sure why this is here. Is it to add diversity for the sake of diversity? Now I'm not an anti-DEI person, but this release is about as generic, bland, uninteresting, and out-of-its time as anything I've run across. It sounds like some folk that don't really know what they're doing but do know they don't want to be put into a 'bucket', so they do nothing interesting, toss an overabundance of foul language in, mix it all together, and spit out a release that fails to interest in any respect. There's talent here, but it's absolutely NOT on display - this garbage is anti-adult-alt-rock put out there to trick some white basement dwelling, chickie nugs eating, incel, vote for fascists because he won't stop thinking women owe him sex, jackass into thinking they're not racists since they listen to 'one of the good ones' black rock.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

I mean, it's a decent enough album, but to be on a list of things someone should absolutely listen to? No, I don't hear it - it's just a decent enough album.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

5/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

This was boring as fuck

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

1/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Not much for disco, but can't argue with disco soul too much.

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

I don't listen to Nazis, you should have learned that with the Kanye.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

To the day I die I will likely never understand how techno became a thing, unless it's the drugs that I'm missing and that makes the repetition a desirable thing since you're not really able to focus on anything anyway. It was fine for techno, but that's like saying a kick in the shin is fine compared to a kick in the balls.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Wha, why does this exist?

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

5/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

I can't say I liked it, I can't say I understand why this style of music exists, but I can't help but think if they were doing something closer to what I like, they're all talented enough that I would like them, so I can't hit them too hard - talented, just not my cup of tea I guess.

Dire Straits

5/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday