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Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile In Guyville Liz Phair	5	3.02	+1.98
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds	5	3.11	+1.89
Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan	5	3.21	+1.79
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	5	3.24	+1.76
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	5	3.24	+1.76
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.38	+1.62
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.44	+1.56

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tical Method Man	1	2.94	-1.94
Ctrl SZA	1	2.91	-1.91
What's That Noise? Coldcut	1	2.78	-1.78
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.62	-1.62
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45
Be Common	2	3.35	-1.35
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	2	3.32	-1.32
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.32	-1.32
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	2	3.15	-1.15
Sunshine Superman Donovan	2	3.09	-1.09

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.67
The Doors	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5

5-Star Albums (34)

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1-Star Albums (3)

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You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

2/5

Cold, impartial, repetitive, soulless, relentless, endless, etc etc. Void of all human emotion.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

One PSB song (not on this album) is enough to last me my whole life.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Typical Costello.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Metallica

5/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Perfect soundtrack for the times. Still relevant.

War

5/5

Scathing soundtrack to the violence of the time. Fear, unfairness, uncertainty and at the end, hope.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Iconic operatic glimpse of love, lust, coming of age.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Landmark album for the Peppers. Good listen all the way thru.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Very difficult to listen to. Couldn't do it.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Fantastic album of collective dissonance, upbeat rock tunes and introspective songs that are diverse enough to keep you interested yet cohesive enough to present a sense of place throughout the album. A must listen all the way thru.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Classic Sinatra but gets pretty tedious by mid-album. Better arrangements of some of the songs can be found elsewhere. But, sets the mood back to the 50's and 60's for dancing, boozing, and smoking.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Not my preferred genre of music, but I get it. I especially like the music intermissions with the classroom recordings. I hope Lauren found what she was looking for.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Excellent collection of roots rock classics. elements of american blues and rock and roll. this one should be listened to over and over.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

One of the finest Live Albums in Country Music. The audience was "captive" throughout the performance.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Brilliant album start to finish.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

17 songs of over-dramatic screaming negativity.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

Video game music

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

WTF? Incomprehensible. Thought I had an open mind about music but I couldn't get into it.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Swingin' music of the times.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Meh

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

couple of great songs here, rest are forgettable. because my girlfriend in HS had this cassette and listened to it all the time. I don't remember any of the songs but 2.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Great album. Classic Dylan

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Love the Pixies, love this album.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Great live album performed by a captive audience.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Sorry. Bored as hell listening to Morrissey's monotone. This album sounds like 1 song played over and over. Sorry, don't care how deep his lyrics are, if the music isn't interesting, it gets 2 stars for valiant effort.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Nice find!

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Waterfalls is catchy--until the nasally rap-then falls apart quickly. A few nice harmonies, but not enough to keep it interesting. The interludes were the best part.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

5/5

Glad this album was suggested. I've never explored Phair's music before. Girl power all the way. Songs are paired down to the bare minimum using only her voice and a single instrument but they could easily be paired with a full band to produce a bombast. Good job Liz.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Solid rock album. Should be on the Top 100 of all time.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Technically beautiful but mostly forgettable. Production is late 80’s so sounds like everything else that was put out during that time. Glad to re-live it, but I’ve moved on.

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Smooth jazz. Not my jam since early 90's. But they've got it going on. Just not goin on my playlist.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Brilliant. Ahead of its time. Wonderful start to finish. Bowie.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

A steady drone of boredom. You must be way stoned to perceive any satisfaction from this album. A song starts, you expect it to build over the next 3-10 minutes, but it doesn't. Then you keep listening to see if it could get any better, but it doesn't. Then you fully expect some sonic release by the end of the song, but you finally realize you've been duped, you're left unfulfilled, and disappointed in yourself for wasting an hour of your life. Can't get it back BTW. 1 star for the fact they actually get this stuff recorded and 1 star for a few riff ideas that could be made into real songs.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Was a dancing good there that night I bet

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

5/5

Blues rock masters

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Brilliant

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Filled with interesting driving organic percussion beats and typical newer Radiohead vocalizations, this album is interesting at times, but exciting very seldom. It's not their best effort, not an album to listen to over and over. I love Radiohead but this one I only pulled a few track and pitched the rest.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

5/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Meh

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Catchy. interesting lyrics

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Meh

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Weird. Thanks for suggesting, but I won't listen again.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

not bad.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Excellent examples of NY from acoustic to hard rock. An important listen.

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Pleasant enough, but I don't feel like sleeping right now.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Nice one. Didn't know this existed.

Common

2/5

Is this supposed to be some groundbreaking R&B album? I must be ignorant.

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

Sorry, couldn't listen to this even part of the way through.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

I like Prince. I do not like this album. Awful.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Top 100 albums of all time. Classic.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Not for me, but thanks

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

For an album listed as a top 100 of all time, i'm not sure. Yes, some fantastic grooves and interesting tracks, but as a whole it would be down on my list. I'll listen again and maybe I can find that collective album spark.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

5/5

Never listened to this album all the way through. Blew my mind!

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Deep, man, deep.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Masterpiece of a live concert by one of rock’s greatest bands.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Love the "Break!"

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Brilliant guitar work, dark and brooding lyrics. An interesting listen but not something that needs to be on my playlist.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

I want to scream and smash things. I guess I like it.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

1/5

Couldn’t find this album

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Different from other MD recordings. Brilliant grooves that ebb and flow bring the listener along on an interesting journey. While most MD recordings leave me bored, this album kept me waiting to hear “what’s next!”

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

The Cure. Nothing different. But, The Cure.

Bert Jansch

3/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Yeah, OK.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Beautiful voice.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Glad to give this a listen. Some old Pixies in there, but otherwise a basic alternative/garage band album. A few cuts were worthy of downloading but the rest were average an forgetable.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Using all stellar artists for a backup band, it was hard to tell who was in control of this album. Most cuts were messy instrumentalists vs intramentalists vying for attention. In one song, it sounded like 3 guitar solos going on at once while pitted against the harmonica. A bit of a mess. I don't think this is the Muddy Waters that I want to be associated with.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

Interesting.

Music

Madonna

2/5

Madonna is talented. This record doesn't reflect that. It's basically an autotune irritation. But, as I was quickly dismissing track after track, I came upon "I Deserve It" which is an acoustic guitar backed track featuring her voice. Nice. Why doesn't she do a whole album like this instead of that crappy electronic poppy bullshit? Couple of other tunes that bear mentioning: "Paradise (Not for Me)" has a dark and brooding vibe with a really cool backbeat groove and the ending tune "Gone" is a quiet, self-reflection that closes out a 3 song album. The rest is noise.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

This may have been a groundbreaking electronic album when it came out 47 years ago, but it didn't age well. Sounds silly and juvenile. Probably a must listen if you're really into electronica but there's so much better stuff out there.

Tical

Method Man

1/5

Girl don't waste that, swallow it all! Terrible and disgusting.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Couple of stellar tracks here, the rest gets tossed into the "old music no one listens to anymore" bucket.

Gorillaz

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

classic 60's pop. haven't really explored their dark side yet.

Tom Tom Club

2/5

Hard to believe this band took itself seriously. Or maybe I just don't get it. Or maybe they don't take themselves seriously and this is all a silly joke. I remember hearing about the band back in the day but never really knew who they were. This app forced me to take a listen. I hadn't missed much.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Brilliant masterpiece by one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Wow

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

This album is a gem. A museum piece of Americana. Stories of youth, love, desperation and hope. Superb musicianship and storytelling, this should be in your top 100.