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Album	You	Global	Diff
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.42	+2.58
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.94	+2.06
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
American Gothic David Ackles	4	2.48	+1.52
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	5	3.51	+1.49
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	5	3.61	+1.39
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Yeezus Kanye West	4	2.77	+1.23

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Northern Soul The Verve	1	2.91	-1.91
Arular M.I.A.	1	2.83	-1.83
Chelsea Girl Nico	1	2.63	-1.63
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	2	3.51	-1.51
Odelay Beck	2	3.46	-1.46
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.38	-1.38
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	2	3.37	-1.37
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	2	3.35	-1.35
Cross Justice	2	3.27	-1.27
1989 Taylor Swift	2	3.27	-1.27

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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Lots of unnecessary tracks with amazing highlights. Could have been a 5 and a full hour shorter

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Why does a song called “Antichrist Television Blues” have a happy upbeat instrumental with claps on 2 and 4. Not as lyrically interesting as it wants to be and mostly incoherent with a handful of interesting moments 4/10

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Didn’t try anything extraordinary but overall a pretty pleasant listen. Care of Cell 44 was strong and Changes was pretty creative, nothing else stood out much

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Queen Elizabeth really knighted this guy?

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Really really high 4. Title track, Leaving the Table, If I Didn’t Have Your Love + It Seemed the Better Way are all 5/5 quality Instrumentals are incredibly sexy and Cohen’s voice is perfect for this

Cross

Justice

2/5

Sounds like Undertale But in fact it is not video game boss music you are just supposed to listen to it Genesis/DANCE/DVNO brought this up from a 1 to a decent-strong 2

Guero

Beck

4/5

5/5 quality for first 2 songs Saw the vegetable man in the vegetable van 🗣️🗣️🗣️

High Violet

The National

4/5

The fog is coming

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Last 2 songs sold 😞 Not cohesive + lazy vocals 2nd half, held up by a handful of bangers

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Twenty FACKIN’ five-to-one 🇮🇪 Oh me gamblin’ days are done ❌ I bet on a horse called Bottle o Smoke 💨💨💨 And my. Horse. Won 🐎🥇

Joan Baez

3/5

Very pretty very folksy very nice. Almost a 4

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Pollinators clear tbh

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

4 stars for the 4th best Radiohead album

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Ts pmo

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Dope guitar. Some parts reminded me of Graceland

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Born to be a drifting 60s hippie, forced to log in to Brightspace

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Live albums always do it for me and this is a great one

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Got pulled over doing 110 to Cheating on You

Pretenders

3/5

Definitely ahead of its time but not particularly my jam

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Headbanger

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

I would take another 9/11 over another Verve album

American Gothic

David Ackles

4/5

Waiter, waiter! More melodramatic theater kid music, please!

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Instrumentals were really nice most of the lyrics and delivery were lazy Shoutout JD Salinger

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Pretty flute on the instrumental made me wish the rest was better

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Really enjoy a lot of screaming vocals Slipknot. Melodic emo vocals Slipknot is hit or miss

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Pretty good stuff, little repetitive for a 40 minute album

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

We want the funk.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Mediocre melancholy rock. Gay Messiah and Crumb by Crumb were interesting but not representative of the rest of the album

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Bound 2, New Slaves, Black Skinhead are all Kanye at his best. I love On Sight + Blood on the Leaves too argue with a wall. Not a perfect album but so creative, nothing really sounds like Yeezus Shame Kanye retired on the day Donda dropped and we never heard from the guy again 😢

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Great stuff however I do not want to hear anybody but Aretha do Respect

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

4/5

I think the intro set my expectations too high the actual music was a slight letdown. Love the chaos of the performance though

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Anybody else clock the crazy racist cover art for Summertime

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Good stuff. Handshake best track

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Mostly indistinguishable from the Zombies album we listened to Alone Again + Maybe the People Would Be the Times were pretty sweet

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Solid

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

Ozo rocks, instant fan. Love the genre blend Very early 2000’s sometimes sounds like bilingual Black Eyed Peas

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Some classics and also some trash

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Cool to hear the origin of shoegaze. Something’s Wrong is peak Edited to a 5 I’ve come back to the album multiple times already

Arular

M.I.A.

1/5

No idea what MIA was going for, maybe 2 or 3 songs were even listenable

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Great songwriting mediocre performance

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Nice

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Very rhythmic, very groovy. Enjoyed… probably never going to seek out anything from this genre on my own but really creative project I’m glad I listened

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

MJ is the only king of pop

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Cool listen, piano riffing was a bit much in some places

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Great album that changed the genre sadly also has multiple skips. Not top 3 Kanye for me

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Probably would have been unforgettable if I was there live dancing with my 60’s sweetheart. On Spotify and 60 years later, more forgettable.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Outstanding in basically all aspects #MILFS (manilovefranksinatra)

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

I am far from a Taylor Swift hater but this is her at her most radio-friendly and unoriginal

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Slow start, terrific end, overall okay album with some standouts

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

Every track except except Surf’s Up violently overstimulated me

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Not top 3 Stevie but still Stevie

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

Just the bass by itself dude

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Bang average live album

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Decent album but I am tired of techno. The fact that we’ve had this much electronic and yet the only rap albums have been Kanye makes me doubt the quality of this list

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Charged by the system for murdering the rhythm WTC4E

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Incessantly, melodramatically mediocre

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

Basic blueprint of East Coast rap in a good way. If you’ve heard Illmatic or Ready to Die you’ve kinda heard this already but it’s a good album. Better than Jay-Z Best track You Can’t Stop The Prophet, hilarious and awesome storytelling

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Not the best album but the Foxes have a really cool sound. Inspired me to check out more of their stuff

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

The best kind of weird! Classic Kinks

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

If + If I Were You WOW. On repeat

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

HOLY SHIT

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Second half dragged

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Not the best front-to-back experience ever but crazy highlights. Didn’t think Tears for Fears had a song like Listen in their bag tbh fair play

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

This would be on aux in a megamall on board the ISS

2112

Rush

4/5

Really charming

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Hit or miss, late-game “my baby left me and I’m so blue” songwriting. Done better by many others before it

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

Nico does a 45 minute medieval bard impression. Nothingburger

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Depeche Mode basically took the spacy sound profile that dominated a lot of the 80s, marinated it in a Winter Soldier-style steroid chamber, took it out and dressed it up nice with a sort of electronic-techno-futurist base of rhythm and keys, and sent it to war. Pretty awesome and definitely creative and influential. If this is “music for the masses,” then hey man consider me the masses

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Quest is the best. Timeless

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Bland

Risque

CHIC

3/5

J’aime le CHIC… cette musique n’est pas “risqué.”