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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	2.97	+2.03
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	5	3	+2
Modern Kosmology Jane Weaver	5	3.08	+1.92
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
The Bones Of What You Believe CHVRCHES	5	3.18	+1.82
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.32	+1.68
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Loretta Lynn	1	2.98	-1.98
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.68	-1.68
Ramones Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	2	3.33	-1.33
Live At Leeds The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	2	3.27	-1.27
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	2	3.26	-1.26
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	2	3.26	-1.26
The Healer John Lee Hooker	2	3.19	-1.19

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Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

A pretty plain 60's Psych record with lots of electric guitar, electric organ, and 60's shit. It was alright, but it didn't leave an impression

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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

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The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Live solo piano jazz. Chill, contemplative. Would be good writing/focus music.

Foo Fighters

3/5

It's the Foo Fighters. Pretty good debut album. Pretty same-y all the way through. I did start to zone out near the middle. A fun listen, but not something I would return to a lot. This is a Call is definitely the stand out track.

The Cars

3/5

A good new wave album. Lot's of familiar songs. Does feel like a distilled version of what David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Talking Heads were already doing, but more accessible and pop. Enjoyable, but it doesn't blow my mind.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

A fun British trip hop Edm record. Lot's of breakbeats, balls to the wall levels of energy, and great production. A fun listen, but time will tell if I'll be back.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

A great live Neil Young record.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Oasis = good.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Great Arcade Fire album. Lot's of 2000's fear and anxieties.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

A chill stripped down country album full of covers. A good listen

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Pretty standard late 60's early 70s rock. Did not intrigue me.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

A cold but dancable electronic album

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Not really my thing. Chill alt country pop from the late 80's/early 90's. Nothing wrong with it, just not my vibe

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

A lot of fun, will have to listen again

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Classic Grunge rock album.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

A Brazilian album with very late 90's electronic influences

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

2/5

Not really my vibe, but some good tracks and a fun listen. I didn't hate it, but I probably won't be listening much in the future

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Quite brilliant but a bit silly. I bounce between loving it and shaking my head. I'll listen more. I do think I'll love it once I give it more time to sink in.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Middle school me would have rated this a five. It's misogynistic, homophobic, over the top violent, and regardless, still pretty good. Would be a four, but Kim is almost too fucked up in retrospect.

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

Never heard this before, but it was a great listen

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Sort of boring and one note. Nothing really wrong with it: Dion has a good voice and can express some emotion, but I felt nothing for this.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

A classic album and one of Neil Young's finest. A 4.7/5, but I'll round ir up

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

A pretty fun Chamber pop album. Could find myself liking this with a few more listens

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

The Doors

5/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Some classic songs. Almost a five, but it dragged a bit in the middle

Low

David Bowie

4/5

People call this a groundbreaking album, but perhaps I'm just not seeing it. Breaking glass is too short, and there's just not enough Bowie, as the entire second half is mostly instrumental. I am liking it a bit more on my second listen, so I may have to grow into it.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Great early/proto goth album. Driving, dark, sometimes tinny, but very interesting

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Meh. Three classic songs, but it was kind of a drag to get through

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

I had only really listened to Remain in Light before, but this is also a great album. I clocked Robert Fripp in I Zimbra, which made me realize how much thebKing Crimson album Discipline owes to the Talking Heads. I want tongive this a 4.5, but I can't. I'm giving it a five. It's not perfect, but it is far from a four.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

1/5

Not my vibe. Not offensive, but doesn't speak to me at all

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Good Yes album, not their best, so a four

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Two classic songs on an overall good record

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

Musically not too bad, but the lyrics are pretty dumb and juvenile. Would be pretty good if it wasn't so stupid

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

It alr8ght

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Better than Let's Get it On. A good listen all the way through

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

A classic REM album with some classic songs.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

A easy album by the Pixies front man. Kind of drags on long, nothing stands out, though I could see myself enjoying it more with future listens

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

A pretty plain 60's Psych record with lots of electric guitar, electric organ, and 60's shit. It was alright, but it didn't leave an impression

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Clapton's a trash human these days and I've never really gotten the hype, but I approached this objectively. It's not terrible, but it's kind of bland. It's mostly cover songs with a laid back vibe. Clapton's singing is not great, very little passion or character. His guitar playing carries the album, and there are some occasional grooves throughout, but overall, nothing to write home about.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

A classic whose influence on music is immeasurable. Rat Salad is the only mid song on the album, the rest are bangers. Sure, Iron Man, Paranoid, and even War Pigs have been played to death, but they still stand as vital and exhilarating heavy metal songs.

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Good

Boston

3/5

I should probably rate this higher. It is a classic with lots of classic songs, but for some reason it's a 3 for me today.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

A good Iggy Pop album with lots of Bowie influence. More a 3.5 for me, but I'm rounding up

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

I used to like this album when I was in middle school, but I haven't enjoyed ACDC since a guy from college I hated made me play the drinking game "Thunderstruck" where you drink every time they say Thunder. Anyway, I came in planning to pan it since I've always considered AC DC to be the Bud Light of rock, but look, there's some aspects of the album that are good. The production is clean. The music is simple but driving. The lyrics are pretty dumb, but Bon Scott can sell. It's still Bud Light, but a beer is a beer. Still not a fan, but I can't give this lower than a three in good conscience.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

A chill but groovy ate 90's electronic album.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Never heard this before, but did recognize several songs. A classic.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

A smooth, sensual little 60's soul record

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

I prefer This Year's Model quite a bit, but this is good too

Cross

Justice

4/5

A great dance/electronic album. Definitely Daft Punk inspired, but excellently executed.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

An excellent Black Sabbath album with several classic albums like Snowblind, Wheel of Confusion and Changes. Not as good as Paranoid, but still an excellent album

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Words are not necessary and a review feels reductive. This album is Afraid, beautiful masterpiece. Simple, understated, hushed, intimate, yet so far away, so remote. Easy 5.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

A classic Meat Loaf album. Almost a five, but I cannot call it flawless

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Almost a perfect album

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Kind of surprised I liked this enough to give it a four. Heavy late 90's singer songwriter vibes, but very chill

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

5/5

My heart says this is a five, but ten years later, my mind is saying it's a four. I'm going to follow my nostalgia tinged heart.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Perfect

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Not a big Madonna fan. This didn't win me over, but there were some good songs.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

I can't get into the Beach Boys outside of Pet Sounds, Smile, and Surfs Up.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Another The Prodigy album. It's alright, but Fat of the Land was better.

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

A strange, beautiful, and intimate record using only vocals. It can be off putting, but it creates a vast world and atmosphere within its narrow confines.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

An okay 70's rock album with hints of prog/folk. The title track is the best song on the album for sure.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

5/5

A pleasant surprise; why haven't I heard of this before? An inventive folk/electronic art pop album. I think I know The Architect feon somewhere, but not sure where. I probably shouldn't give it a five with only two listens, but idk, it's pretty great

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Based on the reviews, I expected to like this. Didn't really enjoy it, though it's fine.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

A great late career Dylan album.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Sex

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

I came in wanting to be a hater, but I can't complain much.

American Gothic

David Ackles

4/5

Not sure how to rate this one. Actually kind of interesting. Some of the songs are quite over the top/broadway-esque which was interesting, but some were pretty boring/ standard songs. It's a mixed bag, but I'm feeling generous today.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

An interesting album. Not really into the subject matter, but it being in French definitely helped to minimize the ick factor. Still kinda gross though, would be higher if it wasn't about a middle aged dude having sex with a 14 yo.

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

There's a lot of good in this album, and it is a vibe at times, but man is it too long. I can live with a 20 minute drum and bass track: at least it's interesting, but 2 hours is just too long to be in 90's Drum and bass land

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

I'm a big Kings of Leon hater. Always have been. But I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Very 2000's rock. The Strokes, White Stripes. Lot's of energy, but still not as iconic as those bands.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

A flawless blues rock album. Janis Joplin's vocals are vibrant and perfect.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Pretty good electronic album

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

I get that this is an important album in the sense that it is highly sampled in rap/edm, but it's mostly just instrumental covers of rock songs with bongos and horns. I just ain't into it.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Someone likes the Beatles, lol. Pretty good album though. Didn't know Coconut was written by a white man, so I learned something.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

Slipknot

1/5

For an album so loud, fast, and stuffed full of sound, it's surprisingly bland.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Can I be honest? I never got the amount of hype for REM.

Stephen Stills

3/5

Not very memorable, except for the Jimi Hendrix solo on song 4. Not bad, just forgettable.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

I love prog, but never really got into Genesis. They sort of embody all of the reasons people make fun of 70's prog, but there's a lot of good in this album. I did find myself regularly upset with the singing and lyrics, but musically, a nearly flawless album

Ramones

2/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

I don't even like rap but I like this

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

White Denim

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

It was alright. I know it's considered a classic, but it was just kind of boring after a while. The dueling guitars was the one saving grace.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

I don't like country, but this was kind of okay. I would consider listening again if the mood struck me

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I hate 80s hair metal, but I actually had fun listening to this. I must have been in a particularly good mood. Eddie's guitar work is great, but I still detest the overall vibe

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

The song Since I Left You is a fucking classic. The rest of the album is just fine though

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Adele

2/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

I'm pretty split here. Putting aside the person from the music, I find this at times good and interesting. Transgressive, vicious, and pounding. But fuck, it's so long, and I'm over it before I'm even half way done. I'm a sucker for concept albums and rock operas, but it's too much of the same. It's a 3.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

I See You

The xx

2/5

I should like this, but it's so boring. A few good moments, but overall, it feels slow and pointless.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Not a big fan of this one. The Rough and the Quick was kind of good though

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

I tried to approach this objectively and with new ears, but I listened to this album to death when I was a teenager. I can't be objective. It's an easy 5.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

A fun find! Surprised this came out in 95; it sounds like such a 2000's album. I'm into it.

Os Mutantes

4/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Divorce Court: the Album

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

Very standard 90s Singer/Songwriter rock music. Sometimes fun, mostly chill, but also pretty forgettable.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

I want to give this a five. Objectively, it's probably a five, but it also showcases everything about the typical 80's production/sound that I hate. The appropriation of African music, the very 80's synths, the electronic drum kits. Outside of this though, it's a beautifully written, recorded, and produced album.

Tical

Method Man

2/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

A classic record with a couple mid songs. The album is sleek, operatic, and at times a bit silly. The guitar work is sleek and unmistakably Queen. The Prophet's Song is super underrated.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

A very good album. Probably a five, but I think I need more time with it. Kind of reminds me of Sparklehorse if he had a larger 90s psychedelic band ala Brian Jonestown Massacre

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

System Of A Down

4/5