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Album	You	Global	Diff
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.29	+1.71
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	5	3.4	+1.6
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	5	3.66	+1.34
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.68	+1.32
Space Ritual Hawkwind	4	2.69	+1.31
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	5	3.75	+1.25
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	4	2.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ten Pearl Jam	2	3.91	-1.91
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.82	-1.82
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	2	3.71	-1.71
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	2	3.62	-1.62
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.43	-1.43
2112 Rush	2	3.38	-1.38
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	2	3.35	-1.35
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	2	3.34	-1.34
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	2	3.26	-1.26
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Ten

Pearl Jam · 1 likes

2/5

Torn between 2 and 3 stars. I love that Pearl Jam exists and what they've done to inspire a lot of bands I love, but they're just not my cup of tea aside from a song or two. Still happy I listened, but I can't imagine any scenario where I'd choose to put on this album when there are so many to choose from that don't feel like work to get through.

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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

Don’t Think Twice is an old favorite and one of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar. I love Dylan, and wanted to enjoy this album more, but I found the harmonica grating. It could be that I was just in the wrong mood for it at the time, because I just found myself antsy and wanting to get through to the end. I’ll have to give it another go because I still listen to Bob Dylan regularly, this full album just started irritating me, though.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Surprised at how much I enjoyed this.. feels like the perfect Sunday night album to put on to kick back and wrap up your week with the feels.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Sam Cooke's voice is a one of one. It's perfect and buttery. Rich and full of life. Truly my favorite vocalist of all time, he was gone way too soon! Fun hearing him in a live setting, I really enjoyed this album.

2112

Rush

2/5

On paper, everything is there for me to like Rush and I keep thinking the day is just around the corner where I'll listen and it all finally clicks for me. But it never does. They feel sterile and distant and uninspired even if technically impressive. Also... Greedy's voice is annnnoyyiinnggg. I tried. I'm sure all try again, too. But man, I was so ready album to be over.

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

1999

Prince

4/5

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I only want you to have some fun." Great lyrics to kick off the album because I really did need to suspend my '80s music judgement and just have some fun. This album was a blast and I'll definitely be listening again, adding some songs to my regular rotation. My main criticism is how many tracks unjustifiably are 6-9 minutes. I love a long song if it is building and adding new elements along the way, but too many of these were CTRL + C the first 2 minuted CTRL + V 3 more times for no reason. Still very fun.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Maybe closer to 4 stars when compared to Teaser and the Firecat, but for me Cat will always be an automatic 5 given how influential he's been in carving out my own music taste. I remember as a young kid feeling like I "discovered" him because it wasn't my parents, siblings, or friends who showed him to me- I found him all on my own listening to the oldies station and instantly he became a my guy. Tea for the Tillerman rules.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Tricky one to review Listening to the full album ⭐️ I imagine a live performance in the park at a summer concert series with a few buds and brews where they only play two songs, probably ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I get it, bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong OKAY I GET IT.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

Super fun, what else is there to say?

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Whoaa mama this caught me by surprise! I was thinking it would be some '90s nostalgia for a few minutes but ultimately leave me ready for it to hurry up and end. Au contraire mon frère! This was incredible start to finish. Only thing holding it back from being 5 stars is I realize 85% of the time I won't be in the mood for this kind of music but it's just so perfect when you're ready for it! Maybe I'm being too precious about my 5 stars but this is riiiiight there. AND, totally justified long tracks which can sometimes be a drag but in this case, Underworld brought the goods and kept layering and taking me down a road I loved going down. Great listen, the '90s rule.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Still might like the idea of him more than listening to him but overall solid and happy this album exists.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Caught me by surprise, this was awesome! I could see myself editing this down the road and giving it the full 5 stars once I'm more familiar with all the songs. Not once did I think of skipping a track or feel antsy for it to be over. Beautiful.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

I'll have to come back and review properly because I just didn't feel like listening and skimmed.. I know them, I like them, can't speak to the full album specifically.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Clearly talented, liked it at bits and wish I was more in the mood for jazz while listening but... it also didn't do much to get me in the mood. I like to think I was ready to meet ya halfway, Hugh, but ya never popped and stayed pretty meh.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Deserving of 5 stars, I’m being overly and annoyingly precious about giving them out, but yeah this album rules. Gotta feel so cool to be Paul and pull off an album like this after the Beatles. I grew up on Band on the Run and Let Me Roll It but the others were all super fun and deserving of equal recognition. This fella just writes tune after tune that you want to sing to along with, it’s like a Michael Jordan level dominance in his craft kind of feeling. Ah Damn it, I’ve been turned by myself, going 5 stars. Well done, Sir Paul.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

I’m sure it’s great in the perfect setting but.. I’m tired man, I don’t want this.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Oh sweet mamma jamma that was delicious! This is the exact reason you participate in a project like this, to expose yourself to incredible music that so clearly should have been taught to you from a young age but society failed you haha. So good!!

Black Sabbath

2/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Yuummmmmmm

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Really good, love starting off with that quintessential California sound. Nothing stood out enough for me to be returning to this album but happy I listened.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Hell yeah! Damn I miss the ‘90s.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Fun, good, won’t ever put it back on.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

I dig it. Didn’t realize RATM’s Renegades of Funk was a cover. Funky fresh fun time.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

I really enjoyed this, might be dipping my toe into jazz a little more after finding some like this that doesn’t make me feel like I have vertigo. Nice easy pleasant.

Garbage

3/5

3.49999999 Perfectly encapsulates the ‘90s sounds of my childhood. I had never heard of Garbage before, really fun listening to this album and hit my nostalgia for the era hard.

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Radiohead is a tricky one for me because OK Computer is an all time favorite despite not actually knowing the full Radiohead discography very well. Everything else I listen to by them is just a random assortment of their songs I’ve heard over the years and added to my lineup without knowing which album they belong to. So coming into this I was excited to learn some more and really start identifying songs with specifics albums, aaaand it turns out I just really didn’t enjoy this and was ready for it to be over. I’m sure after a few more listens I’d find more to appreciate, but if felt more whiny and aimless than the Radiohead I love.

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Hard for me to just sit back and enjoy ‘80s music most of the time but today the setting was right for it to just be fun. This album was an easy, fun, don’t-over-analyze it kind of album. Well done.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

I’m sorry.. like yes NIN woo n such, but nah I don’t want to listen anymore please I just feel dark for no reason

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

Meh, love you uk electonica, but super meh

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Holy sheeeeit this was way better than I was expecting. RIP Ozzy, thanks for rocking 🤘🦇

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Sorry Rufus, you’re talented and there’s a world where I’d really dig your dig if your voice was entirely different.

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Realizing I just kinda cruised through this one without paying attention, I’m sure it was great because Bowie n such, but will need revisit to give an honest review

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Woo!

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Nice! 3.4999, definitely liked it and fun to be reminded of the REM tracks I subconsciously know every word to. Nothing something I’d change if it came on the radio, I’d be pretty happy, but nothing I’m intentionally setting up to play again either.

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

🤘🎸🧨

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

Hell yeah, this is perfect.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Love it, what a guy!

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Chill

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Even though modern doo-wap bullshit attempts usually annoys me, Amy nails it in a fitting way.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Eh probably just the wrong day for this genre but wasn’t feeling it

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Just incredible stuff from these little nerds, love em!

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Well suck me sideways, that was incredible! Okay, so Sweet Home Alabama drives me nuts and I was ready to hate this album because that was my mental association with the band. I have been missing out! This album just shredded start to finish, will definitely be listening to Skynyrd more often. Turns out Happy Gilmore & Forrest Gump already exposed me to a couple of songs here already but start to finish this was just chef’s kiss 70s rock. 🤌

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Album cover had me expecting something like massive attack which had me fired up, so the tonal switch took me a second and maybe left me feeling meh about it. Love British rock and can see why they’re influential/ great 90s band for a lot of people who discovered them at the time. Coming to them 30 years later with no relationship or nostalgia though left it a little meh.

Fleet Foxes

2/5

I mean it’s good but it’s also very Provo PTSD

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Joan Baez

3/5