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Album	You	Global	Diff
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	4	2.22	+1.78
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.43	+1.57
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.63	+1.37
The Score Fugees	5	3.69	+1.31
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Our Heads Hot Chip	1	3.11	-2.11
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	1	2.75	-1.75
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	2	3.57	-1.57
Definitely Maybe Oasis	2	3.52	-1.52
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	1	2.32	-1.32
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	2	3.24	-1.24

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Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

First time listening. I'm very glad for this opportunity. It's crazy, it's too good! You start with Walk On By, the intro plays. And I had to stop, go back, listen again. And stop. I gave the headphones to my partner. “Listen to this intro here." I had to share it with her. Finally, back to the beginning to listen again. Second track. The piano, the beat. It doesn't stop being awesome. The tracks are very long, but you don't notice the time passing. Every second is enjoyable. One Woman is quieter. Absolutely beautiful. This is not the kind of music you listen to a song, and jump to another like a tiktok video. This one you put your phones on, sit down or lay down, ignore the time, ignore your problems, and enjoy the beat!

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Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Tiny Dancer is a good and known track to me, put I didn't remembered. Full albus is very good. I've probably listened to it already when I was getting ready for Elton's show in Rock in Rio (2015?). Holiday Inn is also very awesome!

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

It's OK, but not my flavor.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

I was never actually a very big fan of Van Halen, but for some reason, some of their songs were "Deja vu-ing" in my head. This was a very good opportunity to listen to this album carefully. This is awesome! Even in Jump, I didn’t quite like the synthesizers, but listening to it now, it sounds very well balanced. Hot for Teacher is a wonderful guitar play!

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

It's OK. Not memorable, has good moments. But, overall, its meh. The Police has done better. Sting has done better.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

It's Bowie. It's awesome! Not much to say. I'v listened to this album many times before, but didn't think much about the instrumental tracks. Very cool.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Ok. I didn't know, but I grew up with Fugees, and this album, many of these songs were playing when I was a teenager, in dancehalls, at parties. So, listening to the album, I thought it was about remembering my past, I thought I knew about Fugees, but listening to this album now, in 2025, I've come to realize it is bigger than that. This is a masterpiece. It represents the 90's but also many things that were happening around the Americas, in Brazilian suburbs. It's strong, powerful. It's a very important part of my life and about the place I was born.

Third

Portishead

4/5

I used to listen to Dummy because of Glory Box. It was a specific moment in my life, right when I started my gender transition. The depressing vibe of Portishead connected deeply with what I was going through then. From there, I didn’t listen to much else. The first words on Third are surprisingly in Portuguese. It’s fucking depressing, but that’s Portishead. Their music is wonderfully depressing: deep, haunting, and absolutely awesome.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Nothing special

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

Too weird to me.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Ok. Average.

The Only Ones

3/5

Cool.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

It's the kind of artist I knew about but never stopped to listen to. Some songs I recognize, but everything sounds wonderful. It's an awesome album, from the first to the last track.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

It's OK, a good musician doing weird music.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

Not my vibe.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

I didn't expect what I just listened to. I knew one or two Jane's Addiction songs, kind of alternative from the '90s, but this album is the other way around. It is very heavy, more like hard rock, very well produced, with awesome songs. From the first to the last track, everything is worthwhile.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

I enjoy Radiohead, but I don't think I’ve ever listened to more than a few of their albums. This one is spectacular. Well, actually two: In Rainbows and In Rainbows Disk 2. It was so good that I added the second to my list, but it finished too quickly. Jigsaw Falling Into Place is my favorite!

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

It's cool.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Not my taste.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

Meh

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Not my taste but quite good.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

I didn't knew it. Absolutely awesome!

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

I think I never actually really liked reggae, but this is Bob Marley. This is beyond good. This is fabulous. I completely enjoy this.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

No, I don't like RHCP. But since it's here, let's listen! Breaking the Girl is actually a pretty good song. OK. 3 stars. The band is kind of "meh," but this album is OK. Then I realized I was singing Suck My Kiss really loud. Yeah, it has some good songs, but it's Red Hot Chili Peppers. I never actually liked them. Oh no, Give It Away... I hate this song! But I love Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Oh, now I'm singing and banging along to Under the Bridge. Hey, Apache Rose Peacock is really good too! OK, OK. 4 stars!

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

It deserves. Too much information in a few tracks: the guitar, the beat, the lyrics. Some are outside of this world, but this is Jorge Ben's mark. Zumbi, Chica da Silva, two iconics figures related with black resistance, Brazilian history and his songs made then even more iconics. Too much beauty for just one album!

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

It's REM. It's good. Enjoyable. Not the best. Just good enough.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

1/5

This is too bad.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Horrible!

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I didn't knew it. Awesome!

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

I tried, but there is no way for me to like this.

Achtung Baby

4/5

Too much nostalgia in this album. Many amazing songs. I've listened to the Deluxe version. Even the remixes are good. Still not their best but still wonderful.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

I didn't knew this band. They have a good vibe.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

I was feeling a bit guilty for giving 3 stars to albums that are quite good, but not GOOD. GOOD ones are the ones I want to listen to quite often. But then, when I put something like Bob Dylan's Freewheelin’ on, I feel good, because I know this is what EXTRAORDINARY music sounds like. These are the ones I reserve for 5 stars.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

This is why I am here for! I knew many o these songs, didn't knew enough. For me The Who was just "meh", but this is gold.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

A good old school punk. I'm too old to like it.

Cross

Justice

4/5

This is why I'm using this album generator: to find things I would not listen or look for by myself. This is very different but it's good.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Unexpected. Incredible good. I enjoyed from the first to the last song.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

Ok. Nothing special.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

It's good. It's OK.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

First time listening to X-Ray Spex, and I love it! Very good, simple, raw, and even better: a female-fronted group. Very vocal, very political. They don’t have many albums, which is sad, but it’s probably one of those discoveries that will become part of my regular listening.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5