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Album	You	Global	Diff
Giant Steps The Boo Radleys	5	2.88	+2.12
D White Denim	5	3.21	+1.79
Low-Life New Order	5	3.3	+1.7
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.31	+1.69
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.49	+1.51
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.51	+1.49
Electric Warrior T. Rex	5	3.54	+1.46
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rubber Soul Beatles	2	4.12	-2.12
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	2	3.87	-1.87
Sex Packets Digital Underground	1	2.67	-1.67
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	2	3.61	-1.61
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.45	-1.45
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	2	3.42	-1.42
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	1	2.38	-1.38
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	2	3.36	-1.36
Paranoid Black Sabbath	3	4.2	-1.2

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Black Sabbath

3/5

Not really my thing, but I get it. RIP Ozzy

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Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The first track, "Whole Lotta Love," is obviously a radio classic I've heard a number of times. The guitar melody is thrilling, the vocals are great, but the drum break about a third of the way through the song is what really sets this song apart and a great example of what's makes Zeppelin who they are Another great guitar riff in Lemon Song, accompanied by a bass strumming just underneath that keeps the melody flowing while cymbals clash Ramble On represents another radio classic and example of what makes Zeppelin great, with it's rhythmic percussion and easy vocals Finishing with the instrumental Moby Dick followed by the bluesy harmonica of Bring it Home, II ends on a high note that makes me want to listen to more Zeppelin

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

This one absolutely did not work for me, which kind of shocks me because I consider Born to Run, just a few years earlier, to be an all-timer

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Obviously Pump It Up is the major hot from this album, but the whole thing is full of bangers. Not necessarily something I'll revisit, but I wouldn't be mad if this came on. Great party music

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

For one reason or another, hip-hop has never been my genre, and for some very specific reasons Kanye feels hard to get into in 2025. Still, listening to MBDTF it's clear what everybody sees in him & his music

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Much more into this, with regards to hiphop

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Obviously the famous "Hallelujah" cover, but from the first notes of Mojo Pin this is entirely my type of thing

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Good stuff

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

The type of old country/folk that really resonates with me. I wish I could do half stars

Parklife

Blur

3/5

I like Britpop more in theory than reality

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

The Beatles are a band I'm excited to get into during this exercise, since I really haven't before now. Good album, but not sure it's going to convert me

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Queen isn't really my thing, but why is Bohemian Rhapsody and Killer Queen the only songs you ever hear? They have more bangers

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

I get why Manson has that reputation now

Black Sabbath

3/5

Not really my thing, but I get it. RIP Ozzy

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

More classics on this like War Pigs and Iron Man. Planet Caravan was a cool break from the intensity, too

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Has the more classic Golden Years song, but I feel like there's a reason this isn't a more well-known Bowie

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

Cool stuff, but the heavy synth work like this is just a total turn off for me. Barely made it through, glad I did, will not be looking further into it

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Pretty good, super jazzy, love her voice. Not something I'm probably going to revisit

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Great album, super easy to listen to and still super deep if you can pay attention. A classic for a reason

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Good stories, just not at all something I want to listen to a whole album of

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

Nah. Not for me

Dire Straits

4/5

Easy listening 70s bangers. Sultans of Swing still rocks in 2025, and In the Gallery is just OK, but overall a great album

Cypress Hill

3/5

Not crazy about this ine

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

While it never quite reaches the heights of the first four tracks, all in this is an excellent piece of 90s electronic

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Good stuff, classic Little Richard

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

1/5

Had to tap out halfway through, not my thing at all

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

I don't like the bee gees, I don't think I'm going to

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

I liked Sky Holds the Sun, and overall this is pleasent enough that I won't turn it off, but ultimately it didn't do a lot for me

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Actually really enjoyed this one. Listened to the 2022 remaster on Spotify, and thought the demo versions we're a little stronger, but that's more a personal taste thing than anything

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Love me some jazz. Especially jazz with vocals, Ingoo Pow-Pow is great ending to a great journey of an album

Peter Gabriel

3/5

In Your Eyes is obviously great, and there are a few other surprising great songs on this album, but songs like This Is The Picture are a little weird for my taste and hold the album back

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

2/5

Not for me, man

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Kids and Time to Pretend feel like the highlights, both were played incessantly on the radio when this album came out. While this is a fun album, it really feels firmly stuck in 07/08 and aside from nostalgia I don't see myself really revisiting

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I vastly prefer Songs Of

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Takes me back to youth group

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Pretty heavy for a band called Pixies

White Denim

5/5

Actually ended up going through this twice, I love the psychedelic, bluesy, new wave style this comes in

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Some classic blues

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Rose makes for a strong ending and I quite like the Ballad, but ultimately this piano heavy psychedelic 70s rock is very hit or miss for me, and this album is a miss

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

The type of overpowering noise you either get into in highschool or never get into at all. Bowed out at O-Men

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

I find the back half more enjoyable to listen to, but the album overall still feels like a revelation almost 40 years after it's debut

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

Gimme all your loving, Got me Under Pressure, and Sharp Dressed Man is just banger after banger. I Need You Tonight slows things down in a way I don't quite love but picks right back up, hitting another classic Legs and keeps on rocking through the end of the 34 minute album

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

Nice orchestrals, but didn't do much for me

Rubber Soul

Beatles

2/5

The Beatles just don't do it for me

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Pretty great easy listening, but it definitely feels like a freshman outing

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Opens with the iconic Running Up That Hill, and I'll admit I was that this would be another case where the single was the best part of the album. Happy to be proved wrong! The rest of this is weird and open in a way I'm completely in the bag for, love it from start to finish

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Lots of long, meandering soul music. Not my style, but I see why it's beloved

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Easy to listen to, for whatever reason Sonic Youth has never really done it for me

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

There's no denying Franklin's incredible voice and musical stylings that are still being copied and iterated on fifty years after this album debuted. Still, I personally admire Aretha Franklin a lot more than I want to sit down and listen to Aretha Franklin

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Another fantastic album that is absolutely not for me

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Actually enjoyed this one. ImNone of the songs really blew me away but as a whole album I enjoyed listening to it and will probably revisit

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

I like the sampling and jazz style but it feels more like a museum piece than an album. I'm going to put in and listen to

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Not my favorite Beck

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Musr rocks

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Was surprised by howul much I liked this whole album. Will definitely revisit

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Not for me

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Having long been a fan of One of These Things First, I'm surprised I never sought this album out. Loved, the beautiful guitar and piano melodies carried me along and for once I wish I was actually disappointed when it ended

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

I already find Imagine somewhat annoying and trite, and the rest of the album only gets worse from there

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Some good stuff here, but not my favorite Ryan Adams

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Some good stuff here, but not my favorite Ryan Adams

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

I have pretty strict tastes when it comes to soul. I think they're doing cool, really new stuff, but it isn't for me

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Merely good, 7/10

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Rocks

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

A beautiful lyricist with a great voice and super interesting beats. Not really my style, but something I may revisit when I'm feeling something different

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

5/5

Am I getting into shoegaze?

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

A lot of the 60s stuff is a little earlier than I like, but it's cool to hear some songs I've known all my life and catch some influences. Also, bring back total left fielders like Mother's Lament

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Brown Eyes feels like the real standout in an album I'm not really connecting with so far. Further down, I like Tusk, but this doesn't really elevate my opinion of Fleetwood Mac

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Nah

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Really liked some of the guitar riffs here, but mostly bounced off this one

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

I think London Calling & Train in Vain are the best songs, and the rest of the album never quite gets there for me