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Album	You	Global	Diff
Raising Hell Run-D.M.C.	5	3.51	+1.49
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.77	+1.23
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.87	+1.13
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ten Pearl Jam	1	3.92	-2.92
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	1	3	-2
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	1	2.53	-1.53
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	2	3.32	-1.32
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	3	4.1	-1.1

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Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Love the Coldplay nostalgia. Yellow is one of my favorite songs of all time

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1-Star Albums (3)

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Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Not my favorite. I think "We Don't Need Who You Are" far exceeds the quality of the other tracks on the album.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Great album. The most Rolling Stones Stones album.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Love the Coldplay nostalgia. Yellow is one of my favorite songs of all time

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

It was kind of boring.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Listening to this album is like a tour through music samples and influences that came before and after this album. It's a nice album to listen to in the background while you are focusing on something else. I mean that as a compliment.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

It's a slightly darker version of there contemporary Irish counterpart The Cranberries, but also has a lot of similarities to HAIM's music.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

It's an eclectic genre bending album before that was the cool thing to do which I appreciate. It starts out a little rough but gets better as it goes on in my opinion.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Just so many iconic tracks, guitar riffs, and lyrics. It's truly one of Bowie's best and one of my personal favorites.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Any album that begins with "Like a Rolling Stone" can't be bad.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

While the music is not bad, it is incredibly repetitive, and I don't believe an album should be roughly 50 tracks.

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

In Raw Power you hear the beginnings of what may Iggy's solo efforts so good.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

An iconic album of early hip-hop. So many great tracks. I played this album on repeat during a time in high school, and it's always great to come back to. So many people would be missing their karaoke go-tos without this album.

Talvin Singh

2/5

The Cars

4/5

The Cars are a great early pop rock band that, like The Clash, served as a precursor to a lot of the early 80s pre-Glam Rock rock music. This album is a great summation of their influence and includes many of their most famous songs.

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

It's hard to go wrong with an album that includes 4 of ABBA's biggest hits, but the album also features several interesting options beyond the group's recognizable pop hit including the folk instrumental title track.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

1/5

It makes sense that this album comes from the early days of prog rock. It's essentially several droning tracks of random instrumental noise. I try to find a redeeming quality or a song of favor from every album, but that was a real struggle with this one.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

This a fun, groovy soul movie soundtrack typical of the blaxploitation film genre.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

It's a completely pleasant album. Mitchell is probably one of the premiere vocalists in the last century of popular music, and while her brand of folksy jazz is not the most interesting to me, I do enjoy hearing the clear influence her vocal sytling has had on one of contemporary favorites HAIM.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Despite having one of U2's most famous hits and one of the biggest songs of the 90s in "One", the rest of the album is just kind of bland

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

It's a fun mix of Irish folk and 80s pop.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

The album that introduced both Snoop Dogg and diss rap to the masses. Still, it's definitely an album that is more important for its influence than the quality of its tracks.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

There was a time when I really loved late 60s/early 70s rock music, but when I listen to it now, I often find myself astonished by how repetitive and indistinguishable the songs are from one another. That's my feeling on this album as well. "Your Time is Gonna Come" has some unique characteristics, but the rest of the album just blends together.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

It's just a great, quick album with a lot of wonderful songs.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

It's R&B Muzak.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Sounds like the music that would play in the background of an 80s comedy