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Album	You	Global	Diff
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.26	+1.74
Pornography The Cure	5	3.31	+1.69
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	5	3.59	+1.41
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	1	3.93	-2.93
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Simon & Garfunkel	1	3.62	-2.62
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	1	2.72	-1.72
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	2	3.5	-1.5
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.49	-1.49
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	1	2.47	-1.47
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.42	-1.42
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	2	3.38	-1.38
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	2	3.36	-1.36
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	2	3.35	-1.35

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David Bowie	2	5

5-Star Albums (7)

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

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Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Essential Goth music for any spooky fall season.

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Funky little blues album. I can imagine being a kid in my parents living room, shag carpet and worn couch, with one smoking a Parliament and the other drinking a scotch, dancing in the fading sunlight of a Saturday afternoon while this vinyl spun on the record player (not that this ever happened, but I can imagine the scene)

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Sonically it's not bad, but lyrically it's pretty gross.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Favorite tracks: Killer Queen, Flick of the Wrist, In the Lap of the Gods ...Revisited

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is cooking by the end, but this one comes out swinging. Hot and fresh. Feels like a Fallout soundtrack.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

The highs were high but the lows were low. Highs: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn, Sally MacLennae, and Billy's Bones.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

1/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Very Portland, very 90s, a very appropriate fall soundtrack actually. I liked this one more than I thought I would.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

1/5

I knew going in the Beach Boys really wasn't for me, and this just confirmed that for me 👍🏻

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Can't hate on a classic (well, I can, but not this one). This album was everywhere during my youth - cool older cousins, art teachers, even my damn parents liked the Beastie Boys. Still holds up today. Some real gems on this one.

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Essential Goth music for any spooky fall season.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

I don't think it's possible to hate Rush. Even if it's not your thing, it's still good.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Classic PFunk album. Some real bangers, bookended by some fun experimental tracks.

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Pretty bland Britpop album. The concept aspect was pretty much lost on me. Not bad, but probably wouldn't reach for this one again. Best tracks: That's Really Super, Supergirl, Earn Enough For Us. Dear God was kinda catchy too.

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

The first half of this album slaps, the second half less so.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Mid country pop album. I can see the appeal but not for me.

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

Great background music, terrible active listening.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

Probably not as bad as I think but unfortunately reminds me too much of my ex. 👎🏻

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Great vocalist for the era. Best tracks: Son of a Preacher Man, Windmills of Your Mind

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

I ended up liking this one more than I thought I would. I can definitely hear the influence he's had on some of the artists I love now (Muse came to mind).

Violent Femmes

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

1/5

2112

Rush

4/5

A 20 minute opening track is definitely a choice, but hey, it's still Rush.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Another I ended up liking more than I thought I would, but by the end it felt like an hour of sameness.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

Didn't like Bob Dylan when they made us listen in high school, haven't really changed my mind.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

I remember one of my middle school teachers telling me I would probably like PJ Harvey, and I didn't listen to her then. My teacher was right, I probably would have been into her back then.

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Van Halen

4/5

This was a very nostalgic album for me. A lot of these songs were favorites of my mom, and I must have listened to this album with her at some point.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Sounded like it was written for indie-adjacent romantic dramas. Songs of Love could have been in a Wes Anderson piece. Didn't care for it though.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

I first heard Starlight when I was in the 6th grade. My radio alarm clock went off at 6 AM and my routine was to spend an hour in bed laying to the alt rock morning show. The single was released in September and was in heavy rotation that fall, so I probably heard it every morning for months. In the summer of 2020 I "rediscovered" Muse while on a road trip through the desert. Knights of Cydonia was our theme for every washed out, unpaved, rock-filled death trap we drove over. That winter, I met and fell in love with a Muse superfan. In 2023 we got to see them live together in Las Vegas - what an incredible show. They've been in my top artist rotation for the last several years, 20 years since I first met their sound. Muse has always been a force in my life, I can't imagine my musical library without them. I wept during this listen through.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

It's definitely a classic of the genre, but I am not Slim Shady's target audience.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa