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Album	You	Global	Diff
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	5	2.68	+2.32
Night Life Ray Price	5	2.81	+2.19
Stripped Christina Aguilera	5	2.87	+2.13
Rapture Anita Baker	5	2.94	+2.06
Safe As Milk Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	3.01	+1.99
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.02	+1.98
Elephant Mountain The Youngbloods	5	3.07	+1.93
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Only Ones The Only Ones	1	2.91	-1.91
Want One Rufus Wainwright	1	2.9	-1.9
Want Two Rufus Wainwright	1	2.84	-1.84
Doolittle Pixies	2	3.74	-1.74
Dummy Portishead	2	3.71	-1.71
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.64	-1.64
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	2	3.63	-1.63
Heroes David Bowie	2	3.61	-1.61
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56

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Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues · 1 likes

5/5

Excellent blues riffs and melodies. Didn’t understand a word but didn’t need to.

1-Star Albums (5)

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A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

Too experimental, felt like everyone was playing a different song.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Some songs that went on to become classics, but the overall album is okay.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

There are some absolute classics on this album, but also a lot of misses.

The Doors

5/5

Absolute classic songs that helped push the forefront of music.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

A foundational album that served as inspiration for so many.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

5/5

The Band

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Elastica

4/5

Adele

5/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Sounds like every 90s action movie

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

5/5

What a wild album

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

5/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

What a gem of an album, some songs I knew but didn’t know where from.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Traffic

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

2/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

4/5

#1 Record

Big Star

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Angsty and critical of everything. I would have loved this album growing up, but not as into it now.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Wow sexual, but Steven Tyler has some pipes.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

You can hear a lot of punk influence in this album

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

I can see where dethklok got its satire from, but not for me

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

Excellent blues riffs and melodies. Didn’t understand a word but didn’t need to.

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

I can see the influence on so much metal I enjoy

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

I can see how this influenced a lot of comedy and experimental work. Always knew who Frank Zappa was but didn’t listen to his works, it’s pretty good.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

I understand the context of her struggles, but I don’t feel like the target audience for this one.

Van Halen

4/5

Classic album, can almost taste the cocaine in every song

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Drum and bass is fun but repetitive. Great to zone out to, hard to listen to intentionally

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

I can see how this influenced a lot of music, sounds similar to Jet, but a bit too harsh for me

My Generation

The Who

5/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

I hear the influence on all the indie music I enjoy

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Appreciate the skill but ends up sounding like noise

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

5/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

The Stone Roses

2/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

1977

Ash

2/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

5/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Bittersweet Symphony does all the heavy lifting on this album.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Achtung Baby

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Very slow, can see this being good to listen to in a coffee shop

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

A mediocre Bob Dylan

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Beautiful

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Band on the run carries the album

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

2/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

The Libertines

4/5

Early pop-punk I’d say, love the incorporation of horns

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

Fun classic 50s vibe with newer 60s experimental sprinkled throughout. Harmonies are amazing

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Foo Fighters

2/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

The musicianship is very impressive but there’s so much going on

Cross

Justice

2/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

Noise

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Noise

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Joanna Newsom

2/5

Too theatrical for me

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Cut

The Slits

3/5

I hear a lot of the beginnings of second wave ska in here

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

The Only Ones

1/5

While the musicianship is good, the main singers voice is just a bit too much for me. Like nails on a chalkboard at time

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Classic bossa nova. Great for coffee shops, but nothing ground breaking.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Frank Sinatra’s voice is so smooth, it’s great to hear. But this is just coffee shop music.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

His story telling abilities are so phenomenal. It’s like you can envision yourself there.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Such a foundational funk album with songs that stand the test of time.

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Didn’t really speak to me. Like a Bob Dylan copycat but slower and not as much storytelling

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Nothing really stands out to me. The electronic stuff I’m sure was new for the time but the songs are ok.

Bert Jansch

2/5

The guitars a good but the singing is tough to listen to.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

I’m not on enough drugs to appreciate this. Individually they all sound great, together it sounds like they’re all playing a different song.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

So many classics on my Christmas playlist every year.

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

A little too much noise

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Great hearing Stevie start to find his style. Can hear the Jazz influence, but in a good way.

Os Mutantes

2/5

A little too psychedelic for me

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

You can hear a lot of the foundation of what they’ll become later. Very Brit punk like in the beginning, with great guitars.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

I love the soulfulness of her songs and the jazzy bluesie mix

Germs

1/5

Mostly just noise.

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

I now know where Flight of the Conchords got Inner City Pressure.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

I don’t own enough berets to enjoy this album I think

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Say Yes is a classic. The rest of the album is good.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

I love how you can hear the foundation for what they would become with this album.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Absolutely classic songs and genre defining.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Maybe it’s just because I watched Whiplash but that jazz was hittin pretty good.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

That sure is some honky tonk. Hear a lot of influence on the 90s country I enjoyed so much

High Violet

The National

3/5

Standard indie album

The Cars

5/5

Literally the sound of an era

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

The beats are fun

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

This sounds like jazz but the bad parts

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

I’m not on enough drugs to truly appreciate this but it is fun

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Such a good album, I’m a sucker for a good horn section

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

3/5

Decent blues but just noise at certain times

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

The front half is all bangers but the back half is all duds. Mixed album

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

There’s exactly one good song on this album

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

That sure is ABBA. Enjoyable harmonies and theatrical melodies

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

This is not my kind of music

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Some absolute classics interspersed with some weird ones. Still overall a good album

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Humpty Dance is a classic, the rest is decent

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

4/5

Classic glam rock sound. Razzle is gone too soon

The Clash

3/5

More British punk rock

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Genre defining

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

It’s okay. Somewhere between folk, country, and rock

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Maps is a classic, the rest is okay

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

I was not expecting this to turn into a theatrical release

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Bangers

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

2/5

Wow this was mostly just noise. You can hear the beginnings of their sound, but the singing is hard to get past

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Shrek

Dummy

Portishead

2/5

Not for me; felt like the same song the whole album

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

The music is nice but the singing is hard to get past

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

This feels like a foundational electronic album but it’s okay

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Two really good songs, a lot of okay songs.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

An album to sell Message in a Bottle

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

Early electronic. Feels repetitive

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Feels pretty middle of the road 60s.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Shining Star is a banger, the rest is okay

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

Not good

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Tiny Dancer is a classic, the rest is okay

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Can hear the beginning of disco and funk

808 State

2/5

Sounds like what people in the 90s thought future music sounds like