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Album	You	Global	Diff
LP1 FKA twigs	5	2.8	+2.2
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	5	3.01	+1.99
Shaft Isaac Hayes	5	3.24	+1.76
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.42	+1.58
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.45	+1.55
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	5	3.49	+1.51
Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	4	2.9	+1.1
Rings Around The World Super Furry Animals	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
System Of A Down System Of A Down	1	3.26	-2.26
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.76	-1.76
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.63	-1.63
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	1	2.23	-1.23
Thriller Michael Jackson	3	4.22	-1.22
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	2	3.01	-1.01
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	3	4	-1

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Beatles	3	4.33

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Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Classic Brit pop album with a surprising mix of weird electronic sounds which I fucking loved!!! Really enjoyed it on the first listen and will definitely be sitting down for a re- listen sometime soon

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Can recognise how influential Neil Young is with his song lyrics. But his style of vocals don’t appeal to me and I’m not really drawn to laidback/minimalist instrumentals. I don’t want to judge his music on just one album, but unfortunately this one didn’t draw me into becoming a Neil Young fan

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

This may be a controversial opinion, but I prefer this over rumours. Rumours was just a bit too poppy of a rock album for me. Then again the Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham era isn’t my favourite Fleetwood Mac era either. This album was definitely more experimental but I think I just preferred or enjoyed this album more because it felt like I was listening to a rock album. Didn’t change my opinion about how Fleetwood Mac’s best music was with Peter Green.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Preferred this over After the Gold Rush, which I already know is going to be a controversial opinion. Let’s just say I prefer Neil Young doing rock over folk, his voice is less grating for me. I do like his instrumentation more on this album, but I felt it took to long to get to a proper rock ‘n’ roll sound, it was a bit too laidback in the beginning. This is an improvement from the last album of his I listened to but its brought me to the conclusion that I’m not a Neil Young fan.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Punk rock before punk rock existed.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Listening to this album reminded me of how important Meg White was to the band. She kept their sound grounded, while Jack White fucked around with different experimental instrumentals; despite what people say, she was a really fucking good drummer.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Would have loved them if I was in college in the 80’s, great music to lie in bed and listen to while having a mental crisis.

Van Halen

3/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Fucking brilliant! Love cool shit like this!

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Can never go wrong with Dusty Springfield

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Adele

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

System Of A Down

1/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

The original Proud Mary is still the best one, fight me!

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

The most epic example I’ve ever had of sampling

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Weird German electronic rock, nice :)

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Meh

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

5/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

The Joshua Tree

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

Boston

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

I know this is labeled as an iconic and influential album, but I honestly didn’t hear anything new and groundbreaking in this album. Maybe because I’ve already listened to all the music that was inspired by this album, but either way it didn’t grab me.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

This is more like a 3.5 or 3.75 but fuck I just love the atmospheric sounds on this album.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Not as depressing as the album cover makes it seem, although it is most definitely a darker sound for The Beach Boys, I love the atmospheric spaces they make in the instrumentation along with the echoey vocals. It feels like music for walking along the beach at night, that half sort of peaceful/haunting vibe.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Weird spacious vibes, always a win

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Bad Company

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

The soundtrack to every British coming-of-age film I swear

Paul Simon

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

3/5

2112

Rush

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

This is honestly a 4.5, I have to state this to make it clear how much I adore the sonic sounds and creativity in this album. Janelle Monae is a musician who is by no means underrated but I believe doesn’t get credited enough for how much of an influence she has been on the music scene.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

This honestly could have been a 4 if I didn’t find the vocals so grating

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

I wish you could add half stars to this website because this is honestly a 3.5. It’s so close to being ranked higher; there’s songs I loved; unfortunately they were swamped by songs I found forgettable

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

This is where I feel guilty giving a low score, because realistically it’s a 5 star album, it’s so beautifully composed that there’s nothing I can really fault, other than this doesn’t fit my musical taste and it’s unlikely I’ll listen to it again.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Not bad, but it just sounds like every other American punk band

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Cool interesting instrumentals, but not engaging enough for me to listen to the whole song

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Good classic soul; I usually lean towards high energy in soul music; this was a bit too laid back. But that’s purely musical preference and by no means discredits how good this album is.

Pretenders

3/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

You created a dark creepy weird album and somehow you managed to bore me

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Not my favourite The Smiths album and Morrissey will continue to be a prick, but this brings me just as much as comfort as any other The Smiths album. They capture youthful melancholy so well

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5