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Album	You	Global	Diff
LP1 FKA twigs	5	2.8	+2.2
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	5	2.88	+2.12
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby	5	2.98	+2.02
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	5	3.14	+1.86
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.34	+1.66
En-Tact The Shamen	4	2.43	+1.57
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.86	+1.14
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	5	3.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tical Method Man	1	2.94	-1.94
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.7	-1.7
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	2	3.43	-1.43
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	2	3.33	-1.33
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	2.28	-1.28
Dance Mania Tito Puente	2	3.27	-1.27
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	3	4.16	-1.16
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	2	3.13	-1.13
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	3	4.12	-1.12

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The Who	3	4.33

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Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Melodic rap with a some real bops. I'm not the biggest fan of most of it, but that's just preference; I can see the talent and creativity.

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Several iconic songs. And some extended jam sessions. 😂

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

A sad dreamy meditation.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

This one really feels iconic. A lot of songs I didn't know I knew, or was at least a little familiar with.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Not a personal fave but I see what it did for rock

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Intricate instrumentation and soaring vocals. Ideal weed high music.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

All bangers no skips

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Bluesier than I expected. Very high quality jamming.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

The best I can say is it's listenable.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

I know they had some bangers later, but I can tell they were young when this came out. A lot of being in love with weird sounds.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Layered, intricate songs that immediately feel classic.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Obviously a new sound, definitely a vibe.

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

Music for getting high to. Aumgn is great, Peking O is unlistenable.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Definitely "cool white person in 1970" funky.

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Like being in a very cool alt dance club in 1990.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

I don't know how to rate this as it's so very itself and I've heard bits around for my whole life probably.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Having mostly known Oasis from Wonderwall (which I have never liked), I was pleasantly surprised. It was good, if not something that personally thrills me.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

So hard to rate because the music is so good and the lyrics are so misogynistic most of the time. I guess violence and posturing about violence I expect/understand, but wow do they hate women.

Black Sabbath

3/5

What a bunch of goth LARP nerds (complimentary).

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

5/5

This album fucking rules. I've loved it since I first heard it.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

VIBES

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

What a voice

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Absolutely love.

Tical

Method Man

1/5

Not for me.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

Are we sure this isn't Bob Dylan?

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Melodic and somehow both breezy and sometimes plaintive.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

I can hear the roots of so much modern music in this. It's often a bit busy--in a way that's very intentional, but means it's music for a certain mood for me.

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Call me uncultured, but that's just noise.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

A smooth voice over the highest quality elevator music.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Amazing from top to bottom. I loved every second.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Overhyped navel-gazing from a real asshole. Cemetry Gates is kinda a bop, tho.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Just great harmonies and melodies.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Heartfelt and sweet

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Fabulous and fantastical while still being somewhat grounded.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Prince was never like anyone but himself. I can imagine how different this would have felt when it first came out. Just a funky lil dude.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

A lot of iconic songs...and then Smackwater Jack...😅 But honestly a really great singer/songwriter album.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

I feel like I know these songs without knowing these songs, and that's probably because of how influential they were.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

I wouldn't have thought this would be something I liked if you described it to me, but damn if I didn't!

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

I mean, listen. It's good, no denying that. But it's also unrelenting. And this comes from someone who's been known to skip slow songs.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Those sure are some songs from the late '60s.

Adele

5/5

All hits no skips, amazing voice.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Fabulous. The harmonies are tight, the melodies are catchy. One song that's iffy for me (white) to play in public these days, but the message is good.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

5/5

Fabulous. Like a score to an exciting and charming movie.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

So much talent, and I'm just left cold. It's my fault, but I just don't like jazz.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

Rocks, but mostly didn't make an impression.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Beautiful voice; you can tell he feels the music deeply. Downgraded one star for the loooong narration on the last track.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

I can't stop thinking about how much more I like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, but that's probably not fair. It's very good on its own! But I can't help comparing. For that reason, Killing Me Softly is my favorite track.

LP1

FKA twigs

5/5

Vibey, sexy, and weird (complimentary). I love her strangeness.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

This is aggressively fine. I think Andy Samberg listened to it a lot growing up (but I like The Lonely Island more).

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

I feel like I should be sipping a cocktail in a mod apartment with James Bond while listening to this.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

I agree with another listener--it just doesn't hit for me. Too moody.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Musically, a 3.5. Lyrically, 1.69 (he would have liked my choice of decimal, if not what preceded it).

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Three extremely talented musicians singing together in perfect harmony: what's not to love?

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

It's so interesting what is called "Country"-- much like Lil Nas X and Beyoncé more recently, Ray is redefines country, and it's brilliant.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

I have always thought that I must have been born in the wrong year to really appreciate Elvis. He always felt cheesy to me. Wearin' that Loved-On Look surprised me! It's a real bop. The rest of the album--mostly felt cheesy.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

This is probably an album that is much more impressive in historical context? It's very moody singer songwriter, before the peak glory days of singer-songwriter, I think.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

I'm sure this is once again a me problem, but I mostly had a very hard time telling one song from the next. One is fun, 12 is a long time (almost) completely at one tempo.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Now this is how you maintain intensity without staying in one gear the whole album. I'm looking at you, AC/DC.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Just the epitome of that echoey 80s sound

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Wow this album brought me back to college.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

I mean what is there to say about the Beatles that hasn't been said? Downgraded for the horror of Run for Your Life.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

About halfway through and I think I got the point about 15 minutes ago.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Sad girl music that doesn't depress.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Exactly what you think a punk album from 1984 would be.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

No doubt she's a good vocalist, but I guess I don't see what's worthy of this list.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

I'm so sorry to my teen self that I didn't listen to this then. I mean, I still dig it, but *man*....

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Ranges from mild bop to "why was this done"....often in the same track.

Iron Maiden

4/5

More varied and interesting musically than I was expecting. I did keep thinking, "wow, these guys really want me to think they are SO DARK and EDGIER than they actually are."

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Just a blast. I have to deduct one star for the one song (you know which one).

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Inventive and cool--sometimes it fails, but always interestingly.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

An amazing album top to bottom. I feel a profound sadness every time I hear Rehab.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

I honestly have more respect for them now. I mostly knew them as Pour Some Sugar on Me and that's it. They may have been the mindless rock of their time, but it's layered and interesting musically.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Poetic and melodic

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Mostly the gangbanging, woman-banging stuff that is to be expected of the genre/era, but Suicidal Thoughts hits hard and seems like it's more of a real window into his head.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

A virtuoso; yet it gets kind of long-winded.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

As a sheltered child when this album came out, my first introduction to it was at a cast party for a high school play, where the owner wanted us to sit and listen to it. Not the vibe, Levi! I decided I didn't like it. Next I heard the Weird Al polka version of Closer. Obviously amazing. Years later, I heard Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt. I've read that Trent Reznor has even said that it's Johnny's song now. So I came into this expecting not to like it. By and large, I did, however! Closer is a really good song, it turns out. I did keep expecting to hear silly noises instead of f-bombs, though.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

I liked this better when it was the Simple Minds album I was assigned previously.

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

In a lot of ways, an update of previous record on this list, Straight Outta Compton.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Very talented guys doing really impressive things with their instruments. One extra star for the sweet wildcat noise.

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Basically the definition of punk.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

His voice may waver a bit with age, but somehow that just makes these songs better. His life experience and conviction shine through at every point and songs like Hurt and Personal Jesus are completely transformed in his voice.

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

I guess I'm not sure what makes this particularly special, but I didn't dislike the experience of listening to it.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Idk that I'll ever listen to it again, but I appreciate that it exists. I love the weirdness and the witchcraft themes.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Oh hello, ninth grade me. Her intensely felt and creative vocals and relatable lyrics still hit.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Funky and goth at the same time.

Garbage

4/5

This album screams "I'm so young and edgy", but it sounds good doing it.

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

Weird experimental stuff. I'm sure there's all kinds of hidden stuff in there that I'm too much of a philistine to get--or maybe not. Anyway, I mostly let it wash over me, and it was fine.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

5/5

If this album consisted of "As Yet Untitled" 11 times, I would still give it 5 stars. Some of the other songs are less exciting on their own, but his virtuosic voice elevates them.