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Album	You	Global	Diff
Sail Away Randy Newman	5	2.97	+2.03
Who Killed...... The Zutons? The Zutons	5	3.14	+1.86
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	5	3.25	+1.75
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	4	2.86	+1.14
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	1	3.56	-2.56
Debut Björk	1	3.37	-2.37
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	1	3.35	-2.35
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	1	3.03	-2.03
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.85	-1.85
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Illmatic Nas	2	3.6	-1.6
...And Justice For All Metallica	2	3.43	-1.43
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	2	3.38	-1.38
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38

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Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

1/5

Flamin' dog shit

The Score

Fugees

4/5

So many songs I liked that I didn't know were from this group. Definitely adding some songs to a playlist.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

This one was disappointingly boring. I didn't relate to a single song nor did any of them stand out to me. The mixing seemed off. However, I'd be hard pressed to say it wasn't good.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

I liked it. Definitely a jam, but I won't be adding anything to my playlist.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Boppin'. I'd add these songs to a playlist. Every song is a good time, even if I don't relate to the lyrics.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Long and drawn out instrumentals. They are good, fun to have on in the background. This is not sitting and listening music for me.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

A fantastic and fun vibe. It's good to sit and listen and to have in the background. Every song lasts just a bit too long, but the variation within them makes up for it.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

I was not a huge fan of the lyrics in these songs. I found them a little distasteful. I'm also not much for the meaning in the songs. His vocals were fantastic and the instrumentals had a clear blues influence that I liked. This album was just not for me.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

I know almost all the songs, and none of them miss. I don't really relate to them, but they're fun to sing along to.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

I really liked the music. The vocals left something to be desired though. Hard to understand and seemingly quiet compared to the loud and energetic music. Some songs had a western country feel while also being hardcore electric and rock. I saved a song to my playlist!

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

Definitely my vibe, but something seems off about it. Like an amateur who has had no training in lyric writing and draws "inspiration" by copy/pasting from other songs and smashing them together. The music and vocals don't take their time. Every song feels rushed and improved.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Beautiful vocals, wonderful instrumentals, and good variation across the album. However, they are slow, meaningless, and unchanging songs.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

I don't know. It was weird, noisy, inconsistent in both speed and rhythm. Clearly they are the spirit of psychedelic.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

He had the iconic country vocals, the album was classic country the way I think of it. It wasn't really anything special. I did like The variety in his vocals a lot. And I'm on the cusp of saving if you want to be my woman to my playlist.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

5/5

I loved the nostalgic feel, the lyrics had meaning and the vocals where wonderful. I loved every song for many different reasons.

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

The vocals have a very unique and distinctive sound. I will always recognize an AC/DC song. I can see why people like the music, the instrumentals are wonderful and I like how the lyrics always rhyme. I just found myself very bored and the unique vocals a little annoying after so long.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Honestly, I don't know what to think about this album. It was cool, it had almost a theatrical feel. I liked the songs and her voice, but I was not the biggest fan of them.

Black Sabbath

3/5

I didn't save any songs, but it was almost as good as paranoid. Since I was an older album of theirs. I understand that they were still finding their voice.

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

This was a strange one, like psychedelic rock tends to be. Definitely not sure how I feel about it.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

This album was great. However, I was not the biggest fan of the discordance like I usually am. It was a slightly worse jimmy smith.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Feels like the music was made separately from the vocalist. It sounds like music made to be popular with less individualism.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

I was a little bored by this album. It reminded me of Tally Hall, weird pop and all, but I think Tally Hall does it better. I found the first two songs to be the best in the album.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

I normally have a bias against live music. And none of the Frampton songs stood out to me. However, it was good music.

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

I have never really liked this style of rap. I don't follow the message well and I can only hear the n-word so many times. Definitely nothing bad about this album, but it just didn't hit.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Great! Upbeat songs with good vocals and average music. Each song is its own unique. Interesting piece. I like bluebird enough to save it.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

This album was an extremely mixed bag for me. I liked songs like jackass and ramshackle, but I hated songs like novocane and derelict. This album was so mixed, in fact that I don't know how to rate it.

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

David Bowie

3/5

I definitely recognized a few of the songs, and of course they were good. The last two songs were the best. I don't know if it's as good as the Frampton live album, but some of the songs stood out a little better in this album.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

The vocalist was fantastic. The messages in the songs were clear, the mixing was great, the music was fantastic. Fantastic. I'm still very uncomfortable with the n-word in songs, but outside of that I liked this album.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

The vocalist mixing was quiet and soft compared to the music. The music itself was largely the same and kind of boring. Although smoke in the water has the iconic riff it was still boring. I liked the lyrics in pictures of home. Ironically, the song lazy had the most variety within it and was the most interesting.

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

I liked the songs on the album. It had lots of variety and the singer had good vocals. Lots of the songs had a slow tempo which I tend to like. I ended up saving two songs

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

The music was good, but I didn't like the vocals. And honestly it was quite boring overall.

Debut

Björk

1/5

She's saying the same words over and over and over and over. Each song had the same qualities, the same raspy voice. I did not like this album.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

I love the lyrics in every song. The vocals and sound of the music feel modern and nostalgic. I really love this album. I've even heard some of these songs before without knowing who sang them.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

5/5

I love this album, especially the sax in the first song. Each had interesting lyrics and interesting music.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

There were too many songs on this album but was pretty good. It sounded a lot more like slam poetry with music which I tend to like better than rap. I also liked the The fact that there wasn't as much sexism in the stories. The songs are more about personal tax against stupid people and how amazing he is.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Johnny Cash has a very interesting voice. I really liked this album, the songs were all super interesting. Even if I didn't like the lyrics too often, the songs were still captivating.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

I wasn't much of a fan of the content of the songs, or the parts of the songs that weren't rap. However, the music was good, and more often than not a bop.

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

I save Babylon! Wasn't expecting such a slow sad song in the end. The message of the album didn't really become too clear until then. Still, it was good music.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

The music i s great background music and reminds me of the void fish music from TAZ. Love it

Eagles

4/5

I saved a song. And yet early bird made me want to defenestrate my phone. I also wasn't a huge fan of every song sounding like it was made by completely different person and sung by a completely different person. But they were definitely some bangers in there.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

5/5

I saved a couple songs from this album. I really liked the themes throughout, whole the way they sang fit the emotion. Each song had a different sound to it

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

It wasn't as interesting as the pervious album. The songs in the beginning were good and the last song was great (though it was giving "you've got a friend in me").

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

1/5

I got to song 5 of 36! When I realized that this was God torturing me for not believing in him. Tally Hall just does this better. I force myself through half the songs before I decided, "good enough"

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Love songs aren't really my thing. And neither are generic "I love yous" and "I love hers". I prefer a song with intrigue and poetry. These Beatles songs sounded like Bo Burnham, " I love your greenish/bluish/brownish eyes." I know what songs I like from The Beatles and this album did not have them.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

I really liked the sad piano and vocals. The vibe was great through the whole album, and the jazzy female vocals had a lot of intrigue in every song. I saved the album but I would only listen to it for character inspiration.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

This was all right.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

I honestly don't know how I feel about this album. I certainly listen to all the songs. I just couldn't decide if he liked seeing about it or if it was more like a warning. It's definitely a commentary. I just didn't know what kind.

Electric

The Cult

3/5

I liked the song peace dog. It was vocally interesting. The songs overall were pretty good, but I wouldn't seek them out.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

The music sounded like classic rock. It was outstanding or anything, and the vocals were not for me. I would definitely notice it playing in public, but not in a good way.