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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	5	3	+2
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.07	+1.93
american dream LCD Soundsystem	5	3.18	+1.82
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.35	+1.65
Opus Dei Laibach	4	2.39	+1.61
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.46	+1.54
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.49	+1.51
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Pie Don McLean	1	3.28	-2.28
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	1	3.22	-2.22
Mott Mott The Hoople	1	2.95	-1.95
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	2	3.64	-1.64
Ramones Ramones	2	3.58	-1.58
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	2	3.52	-1.52
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.46	-1.46
My Generation The Who	2	3.43	-1.43
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	2	3.42	-1.42

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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

This shit is mad annoying, actually. Sort of reminds me of a local band playing a college house party and they’re so annoying you want to bail but you can’t leave because you spent $5 on that red solo cup for keg access and you need to get your moneys worth because you’re a broke underage student who only works 12 hours a week and have blown through most of your financial aid even though you pirated, like, HALF of your textbooks so you could pocket the difference so you just drink foamy beer and scornfully clown on the the band from the back of the room

5 likes

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

I had a feeling I was going to dig this. I love the lore that Dennis Wilson was the ONLY Beach Boy™ who actually lived the lifestyle they sang about lmao. He was the only actual surfer, and he would go out and surf and bang chicks in the sand and come home and tell his brothers Brian and Carl and his dumb cousin Mike Love all about it, and they romanticized it into their whole band identity. Which maybe contributes to how surprising and impressive a record this is. Dennis was always just the surfing drummer to me but this absolutely solidified him as his own dense and potently creative artist. This single album might rival the entire output of The Beach Boys™

4 likes

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Devastated to discover there are SEVEN (7!) Neil Young albums on this list.

1 likes

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

The highs are high!

1 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

This is real solid country, the kind of country I can fuck with. It helps that there's a nice undercurrent of psych that elevates it beyond pure Americana into something entirely else.

Elvis Presley

2/5

“old as shit” That’s all I originally wanted to say about this album and, I guess, about Elvis too. It’s just so funny to me that this bland milquetoast bop got so hot, it really reinforces the weird state of pop music before then and just how musically stunted everyone was. I can appreciate the historical significance, but that’s about it

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Kinda crazy that this is actually Michael’s FIFTH solo album. I always thought this was his first solo album. That’s wild. Next you’re gonna tell me that he’d been singing and making records for over ten years before he broke through. Wait, WHAT!? This kid was a seasoned veteran by age 20, with fifteen albums between his solo work and The Jackson 5. I always considered this the “Michael Disco Album” but I’m guessing some of his others are too. I’m not gonna fuckin listen to any of them to find out, though. I have a lot more appreciation for this album now than I used to. Especially since it seems like the LAST real album of the disco era in general.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

While I absolutely love Bowie, and think that "Sound and Vision" is one of the greatest songs he's ever made, the ambient back half of this album supplants the first half. HOWEVER, I think it’s something that’s more obvious and highlighted in contemporary music consumption. As a streamed album, or even on CD, you lose the fact that the ambient stuff is clearly the B-Side of the record originally produced for vinyl and compartmentalizes the two halves. For some reason, that let me appreciate the instrumental, ambient half much more. And if you didn’t like any of the ambient stuff, you never flip the record, and just stick with the A-side bangers. But how can you NOT love “A New Career in a New Town”? That and “Sound and Vision” are sooo fucking good.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

This is nice. Lukewarm. It's "fine." It's just sort of... there. While listening to this album, I just kept thinking about if I would have liked it when it first came out in 1969 if I was alive then. I haven't done that with any other album yet, so it's interesting to me that I was hyper-focused on it. I feel like I would be super dismissive of this album for stuff like In the Court of the Crimson King, Abbey Road, Zeppelin, CCR, and Zappa. It's a concept album, and I LOVE concept albums. But in 1969 there were a good number of better concept albums by King Crimson or The Who or Genesis, and I'd have been too obsessed over those to give this a real chance. The fictional version of me in 1969 would have rated this a 1 or 2. But I have the hindsight of historical value, so I'm gonna bump that up to a lukewarm 3.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Incredible debut. RATM hit the ground running. They are a great example of a band that snuck through the cracks during the height of grunge, a time when execs were scrambling to find the next Nirvana and signed every metal band out of Los Angeles. RATM had the juice, though. It was just a completely different juice. A BETTER juice. A juice that makes you want to smash your face against the wall, but in a GOOD way! FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAH! FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!! Unless you tell me to do my taxes, then, yeah... I'll do that.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

I was stoked to listen to this album. I like the B-52's! At least I thought I did. Rock Lobster is a killer but the rest of this album doesn't really resonate. I'm honestly a little surprised this band hit like it did and was so successful in 1979. Who knew that a band ushering in the 1980s by doing a sendup of 1960s surf rock would be so popular? Did people like things ironically back then? Nah, this is sincere as shit.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

"We don't give a damn" yeah, no shit man, me either. Why was this album included? Was someone in the band related to the author of 1,0001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die?

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

5/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

This was such an interesting window into a specific point of time. Beck hit at the perfect moment; a great combination of right place, right time, but with the talent and ambition to back it up. It's easy to dismiss Odelay as "weird" but it's a unique triumph. Beck was able to take all these seemingly disparate sounds and entire GENRES and cobbled them together into a distinct sound that actually resonated for the moment.

Gorillaz

4/5

I absolutely LOATHED this album when it was first released. I HATED the singles, and thought the concept of the band was DUMB, even though I love CARTOONS. Luckily, I came to my senses when Demon Days was released, and it forced me to re-evaluate Gorillaz. This is a strong debut and a great thesis statement. While I've grown to love the radio hits, this album's best tracks are deeper cuts. I think Demon Days or Plastic Beach deserves to be on this list more than the self-titled, but here we are.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Bro fuck this guy and his crooning ass bullshit. Bossanova was already out of style by the time this fucko got his hands on it, only to slather it in his bullshit. Fuck this era and lazy-ass style of "not-actually-singing-but-sort-of-talking-slow" music. Fuuuuck him. If it wasn't for Antonio Carlos Jobim this would be a 1-star.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Deliciously atmospheric. Wonderful for both background music while you work or do chores, but also eclectic enough that you could sit and focus on nothing but the music itself

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

Sitar Phish

Ramones

2/5

I can appreciate, culturally, what they've done for the zeitgeist, but that doesn't mean I have to ENJOY listening to them.

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

As I get older, I realize I'm much more of a George guy

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Honestly comes off as a parody sometimes

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Wild that this is from 1994. Super ahead of its time. Was this the start of trip hop? Or at least what truly popularized the genre? Not the best Massive Attack album, but absolutely still essential.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

The Hardest Button to Button (jk not hard at all)

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Eclectic as shit

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

I'm a sucker for The Smiths, even though Morrissey is a real piece.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

For some reason, I went through a huge REM phase when I was 9 or 10 years old, which is kind odd, right? Like, what child actually goes HARD for this upbeat and optimistic janglepoppy stuff? But then I realized that it must have to do with its close adjacency to early, proto butt-rock. It's kind of the perfect segue band for a kid with growing musical taste: REM's music feels juuuust polished and melodic enough to catch a kid's ear but still "grown up" enough to feel cool and sophisticated.

Black Sabbath

4/5

This shit rips. What else is there to say? It's a classic for a reason.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Initially jarring, but once you get past that, it's a pretty fun album.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

this is like, the jazz I pretend to play when I make fun off jazz

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Crazy how much the landscape of popular music has shifted so much that it's impossible to imagine an act like this taking any sort of hold if it came out today

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

2/5

One of the very first CDs I was gifted was a Ryan Adams CD, or maybe it was a Bryan Adams CD? Anyway, I returned the fuck out of that shit and exchanged it for a Creed CD.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm proto-butt rock

Blur

3/5

Oh, wow. Song 2 was actually the second song on the album. Whaddayaknow?

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Thin Lizzy? More like Thick Glizzy, am I right?

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

shit's weird as hell in a good way

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

A cultural touchstone. It's hard to express just how ever-present this album was at the time, and the stranglehold it had on the people. It's an incredibly 90s-sounding album, but not in a bad way.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

It's tough to put this one into a box because while the music itself is really nice and great, the fact that the lyrics are not in English makes it very hard to connect to anything on a deeper level. Like, okay, I don't know what the fuck I'm actually listening to. I just got more annoyed as the album went on

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Love it. Pearl Jam is directly responsible for seeding some of my favorite acts of the 90's like they're some sort of Mother Vampire. Plus, their band is named after cum n jizz hahahahahahahahahhaahhahahaahah

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Devastated to discover there are SEVEN (7!) Neil Young albums on this list.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

If peeing your pants makes you cool, then consider me Miles Davis

Tom Tom Club

4/5

This is excellent on drugs

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Absolutely wonderful!

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

I thought The Doors was the deepest, most incredible band when I was 18

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

There's something about this album that makes it PERFECT listening for working overnight at Toys R Us in 2007 and stocking shelves or unloading freight in the truck bays in the quiet of the night, as you sob silently

Bad Company

2/5

lmao

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

This was dope as hell

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

lmao i started fucking cracking up when that evil-ass organ instrumental section played, ran that shit back so many times hahah the balls

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

This makes me think of The Sandlot

Common

5/5

This era was something else

Elastica

2/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

we get it bro, you vape

The Doors

4/5

Really incredible what three guys could accomplish with such minimal elements, and how iconic and historical their sound became.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

I know I'm in the minority, but I can't stand Frank Sinatra's bum ass. This whole era of croonerism is absolute dog shit. "But It was a vibe, man"... the greatest generation? My ass. This MFer was "selling a mood" and not doing jack shit with the form, just sleepwalking his way through talking a song just keeping those musical boundaries up and refusing to break through anything... how the FUCK was this dude seen as "cool" and "rebellious" at the time it's a crock of utter shit, puffing his chest like he's some kind of bonafide outlaw when really he was a sleazy rich guy who drank too much and bailed on his contracts, meanwhile you had ACTUAL rebellion in Chuck Barry who was creating rock n roll and Little Richard tearing up the stage, man fuuuuuck this guy

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

There's an alternate reality where the foundation of popular hip-hop culture sprouted from A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, instead of N.W.A., and I wish I lived there.

Opus Dei

Laibach

4/5

Almost a parody of industrial at times, and I’m okay with that

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Can't believe I used to hate jazz. Or mustard.

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Anthrax would have absolutely ruled as an instrumental band

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

idk man dude is kinda whiny

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Dolly is an all-timer for a reason!

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Singlehandedly responsible for launching the "unplugged" aka acoustic sets into the stratosphere, and for a very good reason! It's the gold standard.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Would LOVE to see a 2025 update of this "generation" lmaooo

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

I knew a kid in 6th grade whose entire personality revolved around The Beatles. This 12-year-old kid dressed like it was the 1960s every single day. I hope he's doing okay.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Look, okay, Tommy? Obviously. Quadraphenia? Sure, makes sense. Who's Next? Okay. But, fuckin... The Who Sell Out!?? WE HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

The Bone Machine was my first real exposure to Tom Waits, introduced by a friend. It blew my mind that this guy was around since the 1970s and had a massive fandom in spite of his lack of radio play. The Bone Machine is a great example of his unique and bizarre “voice” (both literal and artistic)

Mott

Mott The Hoople

1/5

NOTT the Hoople.... amiright??! Because this is f'n trash.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Fine-gile

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Mannn talk about a Tale of Two Different 70s, some stuff was absolutely awesome and trailblazing... and then you have the boring milquetoast stuff like this

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

You can feel the influence dripping off this

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

nahhh

Dire Straits

3/5

Huh, for some reason I always assumed these fellas were American

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Bro lmao what, ok, Paint it Black and Under My Thumb are alltimer songs but the album itself is, well, it’s the Stones

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

The Downward Spiral is a testament to storytelling and one of the all-time greatest narrative concept albums ever made. It's almost impossible for me to listen to any one song at a time, and I ALWAYS need to carve out an hour for the full runtime of the album.

Boston

4/5

The United States Of America

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

This made me feel like I was trapped inside The Black Lodge

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

I really enjoyed this but it might be just because it was different enough from this run of tepid 70s rock picks

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Remember Adult Contemporary?

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

I enjoyed this much more than I expected, but nothing stuck with me after and I couldn't recall a single song. But I still liked it!

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Absolutely fantastic blues

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

I get it, like, I TOTALLY get it, but I've got to be in a real particular "mood" for it.

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

I don't know enough about beeps and boops; this is completely lost on me.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The go-to quintessential "no-skips" album

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Mmmmmm chill yacht rock

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

"Yo, it's time to make some craaaAAAAAzy money!"

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

They WOULD be turtleneck guys

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

It's fine. Didn't really move the needle for me, though.

Suicide

2/5

Nah

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

The highs are high!

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

I was not excited for this going into it, but was pleasantly surprised by the end. Though I'm a sucker for adult contemporary

Joanna Newsom

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Still holds up so SO well. No notes, all love.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

I do miss Freddie.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Look, I get it. The 60's was a fun time and rock was in kind of a weird transitional place but JFC this is... annoying as shit.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

American Pie

Don McLean

1/5

goddamn this is the most boomer-coded bullshit I ever heard

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

The prisoners all cheer any time Johnny says he shot someone

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

This is wonderful

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Damn! This some good-ass cheese. How come you didn't tell me how good the cheese was? Good-Ass Cheese.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Mannnn, not really a fan of traditional punk.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

While I do really like this album, it's mostly due to nostalgia. In a vacuum it's hard to justify this selection for the 1001.

I See You

The xx

2/5

why? WHY?

Future Days

Can

4/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

This feels so incredibly ahead of its time. Absolutely phenomenal album.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Tonally kind of all over the place? But man, the bangers do bang.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

I didn't realize that I never really listened to a full Elton John album before

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

1/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Legitimately astounding just how big the Pumpkins were in the 90s. While this double album might seem bloated by today's standards, it remains an impressive eclectic group of sounds and styles and will forever be a 5-star album to me.

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Bro, what even IS a "Wonderwall"!??