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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	5	2.48	+2.52
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.94	+2.06
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	5	3.2	+1.8
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.32	+1.68
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
Tommy The Who	5	3.34	+1.66
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
Third Soft Machine	4	2.43	+1.57
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	5	3.49	+1.51

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Arrival ABBA	1	3.5	-2.5
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.42	-2.42
Pump Aerosmith	1	3.11	-2.11
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	1	3.05	-2.05
Killing Joke Killing Joke	1	2.99	-1.99
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	2	3.41	-1.41
Fun House The Stooges	2	3.28	-1.28

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Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	2	5
Black Sabbath	3	4.33

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

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Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Can't just be me, but the only good thing to come out of this album is Fat by Weird Al. Pop masterpiece? Please. Pap, pablum, overproduced trash. Admittedly, part of my disdain for this disc is my overall disdain for MJ and his handlers. Like, how did anyone not know what was going on. FU, MJ.

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1-Star Albums (8)

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Solid effort. Not in my top three S&G albums, but some standout tracks, and Homeward Bound is an absolute American classic. Solid 8 of 10 for me.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

I get why people dig Sufjan, I really do. Just like I get why people like pineapple on pizza. Just isn't my jam. Appreciate the listen, but not a go to for me.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Ahh...my first 'cool older girl next door' record. To be honest, she was so cute to me I'd have given the Osmonds a second look if she wanted me to. Luckily, she had great taste. She was blasting this in her room and I could hear it in our driveway, shooting hoops with my dad. Saw her out in the yard later and mustered up "I like your music" with all the bravado a 12-year old with braces can in the face of a devastatingly beautiful HS senior. "Cool. I'll put it back on and put a speaker in the window." Asked mom to take me to the record store the next day so I could get a copy. Then I saw a kid her age kiss her as she got out of his car. Spell broken. Heart broken. Still have the vinyl, tho. So there's that. A top-ten metal album for me. And Changes is epic.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Okay. Not a popular take, but this record is not my jam. A couple of high notes, but overall, pretty meh. He rebounded like a mother, though.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Classic.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

Stunning. Classic. Reimagined the genre. A black man at that time in America singing C&W. Charley Pride, Darius Rucker, et al thank you. As do I, sir!

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Ok, haters: I am not a Cream fan. I mean, I appreciate the talent, and it's not like I don't dig some of their work, but, hey, who tosses Pet Sounds on the turntable on the reg. Great Clapton. Great Baker, but for me, meh. Sorry.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Epic. The first true peek into Pete's genius. Immortalized not by the movie or play, but by the spoof, 'Happy Jack' by Spinal Tap. Not my personal fave Who album, but so many bangers, so much influence on later bands, and such a precursor to what would become one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Worth a spin once a month or so, fer sher.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

My personal fave Cat record. Every tune still holds up, from the classics to the (criminally) underplayed.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Not Neil's best work, some ragged singing with a few high notes.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Nope.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Much better bands of the time, but not a bad effort.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

No sense reviewing a record that's been reviewed and rated as one of the most important albums ever. But I will say this: Not my favorite disc by Uncle Bob. Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and Blonde are all better records, in my humble opinion. But, if ya haven't spun this disc, spin it now. Because even the Dylan album in 73 is better than most other folks best efforts.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

It's hot where I live. But take a cooler full of ice, a bottle of good rum, some limes, and plant yourself in an Adirondack chair while this album is blasting on the patio and, VOILA, instant good vibes, instant good mood. I could go on about the rhythms and beats, but the best thing I can say about this disc is I started out drinking alone, and three songs in three sets of neighbors were in my backyard with their coolers.

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Clash

4/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Picking a best Floyd album is like picking a favorite kid. Maybe the most ambitious? Deeply personal? No matter what, it's a standout piece of work.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

1/5

Seriously? This? After 4 decades of monumental rap and hip hop albums? Sorry, not in my top 1000.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Arrival

ABBA

1/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

I tried. I honestly tried to love The Doors. Then I tried to hate The Doors. Then I finally came to terms with accepting The Doors. Tons of great songs, tbh, but just never could buy into the whole Jim Morrison Serpent God bullshit. Peace Frog is a standout, but the rest...meh.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The worst of Led Zeppelin is better than most bands' best. And this isn't the worst (looking at you, Coda). It's not Houses, it's not IV, and that's alright. It's the followup to the album that brought them to the world, and it kicks fucking ass.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

"I've never listened to Funkadelic" A: You're a moron. B: Yes, you have. If you've listened to rap or hip hop for the last 40+ years, you know who sampled them, even if you didn't know who they sampled. Seminal funk. Essential listening. 'Nuff said.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Ahh...the quintessential 'big sister' album. But c'mon. It wasn't just your big sister's music, it was America's soundtrack. It's where we fell in love, or adopted as our spirit animal, Stevie. And we can only hope it's where some 'discovered' the magic that lives in Lindsey's fretwork and Christine's angelic (better than Nicks, IMHO) voice. Take all that, and then factor in that this album was a declaration of war. The band was infighting, infucking, incredible, in the pocket and at the top of their formidable game. Only Richard and Linda Thompson have a better, "we're breaking up, let's kick some ass' disc. Enjoy. And tell your big sister thanks.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

5/5

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Flashback to High School with this one. Had this disc back in the day, but totally forgot about it. Upon repeat, it's still music my 18-year old self loved, but not my jam any longer. Happy memories, but not a standout for me.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Third

Soft Machine

4/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Okay. I'm a sucker for BritPop, and for my money, Parklife knocks it, well, out of the park. Not groundbreaking. Not genre defining. But damned solid and immensely listenable.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

Sorry. Can't make it through this record. All respect to the late Sandy Denny, but that voice is nails on a blackboard to me. I get it. People dig her. And that's fine. I just don't. I'm heretical enough to feel the same about Joni Mitchell on certain songs. But even the ones where I'm not loving her words, I'm loving her poetry. Not my jam. Three stars because of respect for the music, but not for me.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

5/5

Killing Joke

1/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Ok. Best in class, without a doubt. Losing Bon Scott would have stopped most bands, but not ACDC. This album is classic from track one to the end. Is it the impetus for Spinal Tap? Maybe. But who the fuck cares? When you want to crank it to 11. When you want misogynistic lyrics the girls at the party will sing along too, who are you plating on that turntable? Yes, I was a high school punk when it came out. And yes, it still spins at home at least once a week at Medicare age. And I'm not even a metalhead. Sometimes you just want power chords that shake your balls/ovaries. And the Young bro's deliver.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

1984

Van Halen

1/5

Sorry, but never got the VH bug. I can appreciate EVH, up to a point. But a gimmick is a gimmick, no matter how good you are at it. Diamond Dave is a character and a caricature. Lots of better bands out there. With a lot more to say.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

2/5

Not my jam. Appreciate the effort, but pass.

Pump

Aerosmith

1/5

Trash.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Classic. Anything less than 5 stars says more about the listener than the record.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Hard to believe these motherfuckers can do this and also put out "We Built This City" Good god. From the penthouse to the shitter.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

The fact that Keidis is a millionaire is proof that you can fool a shit ton of the people all the time. "To fingerpaint is not a sin. I put my middle finger in." Dylan it ain't. So I put both middle fingers straight up. Fuck you for the shit album. Fuck you for the shit album cover (CorelDraw? Microsoft Paint?)