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Album	You	Global	Diff
Connected Stereo MC's	5	2.95	+2.05
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	5	3.13	+1.87
Forever Changes Love	5	3.22	+1.78
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters	5	3.24	+1.76
Ace of Spades Motörhead	5	3.28	+1.72
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.42	+1.58
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.5	+1.5
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.54	+1.46
Moon Safari Air	5	3.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	1	3.95	-2.95
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	1	3.75	-2.75
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	1	3.66	-2.66
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	1	3.63	-2.63
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	1	3.51	-2.51
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.5	-2.5
Odelay Beck	1	3.45	-2.45
Sea Change Beck	1	3.33	-2.33
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	1	3.2	-2.2
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	1	3.14	-2.14

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Artist	Albums	Average
Metallica	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	1.5
Beck	2	1
Leonard Cohen	3	1.67

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Pure, old-school metal music. Inject this straight into my veins. 5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Slow smooth jazz. Not going to listen to this on an everyday basis. 3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Feels like the music and my brain are melting together. 4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Makes me happy and excited. 4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Perfect, this makes my heart fill up with hope and turns me into an idealist. 5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Upbeat rock music. Sometimes slow. 4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Standard background jazz. Fast enough to be fun. 3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

2/5

One good song. Everything else is trash. 2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

1/5

I don't wanna hear it. Slow jazz. 1/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

1/5

Feels like a fish bone stuck in my throat. 1/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Not the best of David Bowie. Kinda meh. 2/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Pretty normal upbeat singing with music. Sounds good. Not phenomenal. 3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Regular bops. Not phenomenal. 3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

1/5

Sounds like random singing over nice instruments. More random singing than nice instruments. 1/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Okay, I get it noise is the damn point. 4/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Not "pure". 3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

Upbeat and boppy. Slow at times, but not in a bad way. 4/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

4/5

Good music. Some really good music. 4/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Standard music. 3/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Took me to a good place. 4/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Racist. But good music. 3/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Just noise this time. Not enough good music to go along with it. 2/5

Metallica

5/5

Metallica. 5/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Ew. Too much chaos. 1/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Goes hard. 4/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Too noisy and unresolved. Could've been good otherwise. 2/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Killer jazz. 5/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Good bops. 4/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Too slow, too sensual at times. 3/5

Sea Change

Beck

1/5

Too emo too slow. 1/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Rap. Nah. At least it's not mumble rap. 3/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

1/5

Singing. Only singing. 1/5

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Too slow too boring. 2/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

1/5

Too slow. Too somber. 1/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Sounds good. Boppy. 4/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Some bangers, some sleepers. 3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Vibe. 4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Chill rap. 2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Smooth jazz. 3/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Everything sounds the same. Would've been a 3 otherwise. 2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

1/5

Nah, mostly just singing. 1/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

5/5

Pretty good. Pretty fun. Like mbv, but not as noisy. 5/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Pretty good and fast. Not quite the metal-rock I like, but good enough. 4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Fun. Not going to listen on my own though. 3/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Fun. Good trance music. 4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Mid rock. 3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Back to back mid rock. Stfu. 3/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

1/5

Weird. Dissonant jazz. 1/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Not consistently beat-ey like the others. 3/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

They have lost it. 1/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Barely any beats. Slow. 2/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Pretty good upbeat stuff. I likey. 5/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Trippy. Kinda boring. 2/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Pretty good. Some boring songs. 4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Regular jazz. Don't wanna listen to it. 3/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Mid. Sleep inducing. 2/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

1/5

Singing with banjo. 1/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

It's alright. Upbeat. 3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Fast, boppy jazz. 4/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Slow background jazz. Not unlistenable. But weird. 2/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

Boring and slow, weird when not slow. 1/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Slow, background jazz. 3/5

Joan Baez

3/5

Slow singing. But fun lyrics. 3/5

Violent Femmes

1/5

Boring. 1/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Good jazz. Some weird tracks bump it down a point. 3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Fun. Sometimes boring. 3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Nice upbeat stuff. 4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

I dont care much for Spanish music. Is fun though, I can imagine this playing on the beach. 2/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Standard old school rap. 3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

2/5

Fun stuff, but at the end it's just singing with 60s music. Not a fan of the concert. 2/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

They've got this weird whooping going on the entire time. But fun. 4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Amazing listen. Too much sex. To be played under very specific scenarios. 3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Cannot be bothered to listen to Spanish music. Some beats are good though. 3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Pretty good. Pretty upbeat. 4/5

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

Too weird. 1/5

Suicide

1/5

Annoying trash. Could've been a 5/5 but they fucked it up. 1/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

This was good. Not good enough to hear on a regular basis. 3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Weirdly fun. Trancy. 4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Boring RnB. 2/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Boring. Upbeat. But boring. 2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Pretty good overall. Some songs might take a few more listens to get used to. 4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Fun. 4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Pretty good. Irish jig style upbeat music. Just too many songs. 4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Sleeper. 2/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

5/5

Music goes crazy. Trancy. 5/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Trancy. Good slow music. 4/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

One good song. Most of it is not available or is too weird. 3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Jazz. Kinda trash. 2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Boring honestly. 2/5

Le Tigre

2/5

Loud, upbeat, but not fun. 2/5

The Cars

2/5

Boring. 2/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Swing jazz. But boring. 2/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Good. Not metallica good. 4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

Fucking annoying. 1/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

2/5

Good but not my thing. 2/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Fun. Not the context I wanna listen to it in. 3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Man. Make this genre stop. 2/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

I don't care to listen to ballads of a woman's mixed feelings about their apparently favorite subject: men

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

British black people should not be allowed to act American black. Feels like I am listening to an unironic Politikz. 1/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Music and singing coming together perfectly, none of them overpower each other. Very fun to listen to. 4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Absolutely beautiful. 5/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Random noise generator. 1/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Meh. Too punk and chaotic for me. But not boring. 3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Nah. 2/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Very fun chill music. 4/5

Forever Changes

Love

5/5

Very fun. 5/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

Jazz rap is something I don't want to listen to ever again. 1/5

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Very gentle and smooth. 5/5

Germs

2/5

Too aggressive. 2/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Meh. Upbeat. 3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Dissonant. Upsetting. 2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Good. Calming. Bland. 3/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

Singing and riffs. Boring. 2/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

My misogyny goes brrrr. Singing and background instruments. 2/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Weirdly dissonant. 2/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

1/5

Singing. 1/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

SPEAKING. NOT EVEN SINGING. 1/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

4/5

Good and fun and chill. 4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Boring. 2/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Boring and repetitive. 2/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

Ugh. 2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Too raw. 3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

This is how you break me. 1/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

Obnoxious rock. 2/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Millennial music. 2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

1/5

Storytelling. 1/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Put me to sleep. 2/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

FNV radio-core. 3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Got La Grange. Rest is sleeper. 3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Good music. 4/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

Nice and chill. 4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Its aight. 3/5

The Clash

3/5

British "people" football chanting turned into heavy rock music. 3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Incredible voice. Get it out of my ears. 2/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A ballad, like Bob Dylan, but the music and singing is not as dissonant. 3/5

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Gave a fellow brown girl some more attention than usual after the first song. Paper planes obviously slapped, but apart from that, aggressively mid. Also, British.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

2/5

Takeaway: David Bowie is almost always consistently mid. Some exceptions - but none in this album. 2/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Bouncy fun. Reminds me of jungle if they had a singer in there. 3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Hell yeah. 5/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

I like the ghetto version of Frosty the Snowman much more. 3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Good but not something for daily listening. 3/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Folk. 2/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Folk. 2/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Fun and upbeat, but all the fun comes from repeated music with vocals directing the fun. 3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Jazz rock. Not a big fan. 2/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Only Fallout Sinatra for me please. 2/5

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Eh rap. 2/5

Odelay

Beck

1/5

Annoying. 1/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

4/5

Fun. Trancy. 4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

I don't care. 2/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Dancing queen. 4/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Trancy but boring. 2/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Good but not phenomenal. 3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Regular jazz. 3/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

3/5

Same as below but it's a man singing. 3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Same as below. 3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

The ballads of weed. 2/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Fun to listen to, but boring for me. 3/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

Why are you yelling? 2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Amazing combination of music and vocals. 4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Goes hard. Kinda like eurobeat but rap coded. 4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

British man yells lyrics. 3/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

5/5

Hell yeah simulator. 5/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Rock ballads, but too country. 3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Ask the lord to stop teaching you songs. 2/5

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Woman rock. 3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Smooth. 3/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Boring upbeat. 2/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Funky. Its alright, I guess. 3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Classics. Not going to listen to this on my own again. 4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Corporate weed music. Fun. 3/5

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

I'm letting the phone go to voicemail. 2/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Sounds amazing. Not for me. 3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Boring. 2/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Mellow rock. Its alright. 3/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Slow, quiet, ethereal. but in the bad ways. Not my thing. 2/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

European club music but wack (bad wack). 3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Good disco songs. But I am here for the music, not for the song. 3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Honestly boring upbeat. 2/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Boring ballads. 1/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

Funky jazz. 4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Eh. 3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Dissonant. 2/5

Risque

CHIC

4/5

Fun to sit and lose yourself in. 4/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Excellent. 4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Singing and banjo. Meh. 2/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

Classical Bollywood is not my thing. 2/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Good but maybe a tad bit too boring. 3/5

Adele

3/5

I am here for music, not singing. Adele is awesome though. 3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Very beautiful. 4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Pretty good! Lot of vocals, but instruments go crazy too. 4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

I likey. 5/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Kinda fun. Sounds like drugs. 3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

Very soft and beautiful. 4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Nice rock. Good singing, good instruments. 4/5

Scissor Sisters

5/5

I want to party with the gays. 5/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

1/5

Bob Dylan. 1/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Bangers all the way down. 5/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

Too slow too boring too soulful for me. 2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Noise machine. 2/5

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Mid. Singing. Some good ones, but lost within mid. 2/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

I thought they were going to deliver again, and they did, but it belongs in the toilet. 2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Makes me want to play M2TW as the Irish. 5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

Noisy and unresolved and boring. The rap is trash. 2/5