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Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	4	1.88	+2.12
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.21	+1.79
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Virgin Suicides Air	5	3.24	+1.76
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.38	+1.62
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	5	3.48	+1.52

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	2	3.72	-1.72
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	2	3.66	-1.66
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.49	-1.49
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	2	3.32	-1.32
Fragile Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	3	4.26	-1.26
Revolver Beatles	3	4.24	-1.24
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	1	2.23	-1.23
Another Green World Brian Eno	2	3.12	-1.12

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	2	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5

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Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Not an album that would be in my current rotation, but was enjoyable in a sense. 70s country has the essence of country music that is lost on the modern genre that can not be replicated with sincerity, while also most certainly being the equivalent of "pop country" for its time. Falls closer to John Denver in take and tone than it does Johnny Cash.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

I don't think I've listened to Muse outside of their performance during the London Olympics closing ceremony in 2012, so I don't have much to go off of going in. Coming out on the other side I'm not certain how to feel on it fully. Every song out of the gate comes off as a banger, the type you hear when the credits roll after a cliffhanger ending in an action film or going into a boss battle. But then somewhere in the middle it just kinda muddles as everything happening comes to a head and competes with each other. Nothing about it made me stop and go "where have they been for the past 20+ years" but everything about it was still good. Great prog rock elements throughout but at times it felt too much or too little. Perhaps if the songs were longer it wouldn't feel like they're rushing to get everything in like Disney making a Star Wars film. Needless to say, I don't really know how to review music.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

I really enjoyed listening to this, however it quickly fell to the background to the point of forgetting about it. Melodic and well paced. Never overstayed its welcome. Strong Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibes

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

I've never gotten the appeal of Yes. I recognize their influence is all over anything remotely progressive since their formation, but it just doesn't do it for me. Perhaps its the voice, perhaps its the multi-layered vocals or something else but I'd have turned it off had it come on the radio. Just not for me.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Solid album. Made me think how the music of the time was so chaotic as a scene, so many artists lumped into “alternative” with no rhyme or reason because they just didn’t fit anywhere else. Been a long time since I listened to this last, did not realize it was not her debut album so may need to go back and see where it started.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Unlistenable. Tried listen with my all, but it is the type of jazz for people who absolutely love jazz with their soul, or people who hate themselves. Clearly the musicians are passionate for the music and they have respect for its creator because why else would 5 talented musicians come together to make this cacophony of noise. Lineup consists two saxophone players, two drummers and a bass player. Imagine if everyone was giving a full on solo of every note all the time at once. Midway thru I thought it was going to pivot and get better which it did for a moment before continuing with the emotional car crash that is this album.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Very enjoyable and smooth. Loved how the organ is not always the star of the song even though its his main instrument. Glad to have listened and want to listen to more by him.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Solomon Burke is legit fantastic. Pretty much classic oldies of the Back to the Future era. Solid songs and just a joy to listen to

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

This is the first time in a long while where I listen to an album and think “they had zero intention of having any of these songs play on the radio” You can hear the influences, almost culminating to a “best of” the times and styles of music while almost foreseeing what lies ahead for music in the 90s. Strong classic punk meets new wave/post punk while maintaining anthems of the 70s

The La's

4/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

An album I need to go back and listen to with headphones to truly appreciate it as listening to it in the background while driving does not do it justice.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

I've never been able to get into the Beatles, let alone the post-work and projects unless it involves Thomas the Tank Engine. I listen to this and can recognize excellent craftsmanship of music and song writing, but as I listen it just makes me wish for anything else because it just does nothing positive for me.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

Surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. Knew nothing about them prior, just really hit a nice note for me

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

5/5

Very enjoyable and a pleasant surprise. Felt like a fusion of several bands of the time and of the 90s mixed into one. Just really great overall.

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

List keeps churning out names I’ve never known. Part of my enjoyment then is reading up on them as I listen to them. Dion was nothing special for me. Pleasant in its effort but generally not for me. To read up on him though was a delight and learn how his influence can be seen still

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

California

American Music Club

4/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

straight up old school Frank Zappa psychedelic rock. Sounds like a mix of the Banana Splits meets early Sesame Street / HR Puffenstuff with an anti-capitalist/pro-communist agenda as performed by a serial killer. Not bad, but dated and not really for me though I can appreciate it.

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Beatles have never been my favorite. I know they’re popular and everything, doesn’t change the fact.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

3/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Django Django

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

The Doors

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Boston

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Strong peanuts gang vibes

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

The Only Ones

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Pretenders

4/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Suicide

3/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Suede

4/5

Germs

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Adele

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

War

3/5

Joan Baez

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Wild Gift

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

The Specials

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

4/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

The Cars

4/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

The xx

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5