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Album	You	Global	Diff
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	5	3.06	+1.94
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	5	3.25	+1.75
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	5	3.43	+1.57
Arrival ABBA	5	3.5	+1.5
The Cars The Cars	5	3.67	+1.33
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.73	+1.27
Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes	4	2.73	+1.27
Let's Stay Together Al Green	5	3.76	+1.24

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Transformer Lou Reed	1	3.67	-2.67
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.83	-1.83
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.7	-1.7
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.65	-1.65
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	2	3.42	-1.42
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.37	-1.37
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	2	3.3	-1.3
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	3	4.3	-1.3
Goo Sonic Youth	2	3.24	-1.24
Paranoid Black Sabbath	3	4.2	-1.2

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Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

I really enjoyed this.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

I didn't hugely enjoy this. I love Joni Mitchell for the soaring emotional highs and lows of Both Sides Now and Big Yellow Taxi. This was more of a stream of consciousness album with mild psychadelic tones. I think if I had been in a specific mood when I listened to this, I would have loved it. The music was enjoyable even without the correct mood, and I'm sure I would like the lyrics more if I was looking for a continuous story. I will have to see if I ever get in that mood and go from there. I'm glad I listened to it, regardless. It is very good music even if I didn't like it that much.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

This album is the single best argument I have ever heard for the fact that I need to listen to more albums in their entirety instead of individual songs. No single song on this album immediately became a favorite, but the whole experience was amazing. Start to finish, this was incredibly enjoyable. My favorite thing that music can do is to incept one person's emotions onto other people. Normally with David Byrne, I feel emotions while listening but can't put my finger on any single emotion that comes through powerfully. This whole album was like that, but in the best possible way. I felt many things while listening.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Otis Redding is one of my favorite vocal performers, and this album showcases a lot of the reasons why. It is also chock full of hits. Really really enjoyable album by a legend.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

I didn't love it but it had its moments.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

A little too one note for my tastes, but there is no denying the sheer force of nature that is a Marvin Gaye song.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Beautiful, but a little too much for me right now.

Transformer

Lou Reed

1/5

Nope. Not for me.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

This is going to be the worst review I ever leave, but I swear to Thor I normally like the Dead. When I was in college, Cracked was a huge thing. One of the authors on Cracked who wrote about music had a massive hate-on for the Dead. I didn't understand why at the time, but this album opened my eyes. The whole thing is long instrumentals followed by the type of muttery vaguely florid nonsense that people lazily making fun of the Dead do. Partway through I realized this could have been released as a parody album unchanged. There is an entire 7 minute track of feedback (titled Feedback, of course) as the second to last song. I'm going to keep enjoying Touch of Grey and Uncle John's Band, Ripple, Box of Rain, etc, but I am NEVER listening to this album again.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Solid 3.5/5. Closer to a three.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

It was fine.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Pretty fun, then it ends with Radio, Radio. That bumps it from a 3 to a 3.5.

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Pretty great.

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Opens with a hell of a bop. Overall fun album.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

5/5

Really fantastic album.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

Meh.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Fun little bit of history.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Not bad, but super odd. It has its moments.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Genuinely just so great. Excellence in its purest form.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Fun, but I didn't love it.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Very meh. I'm always surprised by how much people like Radiohead and assume I'm missing something, but this album isn't convincing.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

3/5

I think if I liked this band I would love the album.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

This album was lots of fun. No huge standout songs, just enjoyable all the way through.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

I was disappointed in this album. About every second song was fantastic, but a lot of the other ones were pretty meh IMO. I also felt like it didn't cohere that well. Definitely not writing off Peter Gabriel, some of those songs were awesome, but I don't think this one is for me.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Nothing stood out particularly, but this was super fun background music.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Fun.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Not my thing but fun.

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

I really enjoyed this.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Undeniably enchanting.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

I enjoyed this a lot.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

I liked it so little I didn't finish listening to it.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Classic.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Very easy listening.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Kind of loving it.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Super fun

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

Pretty nice.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

Did not enjoy.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

As expected, this was excellent.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

Meh.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Interesting but not really my thing.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Really really fun. I always forget how much I like the stones.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Interesting, but not my thing.

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

I didn't love it, but this felt like a much more intimate look at a songwriter's process than most albums. I'm also a cat dad, I loved A Fan's Mail (Tron Suite Song II). I feel like this deserves the 4 stars.

Goo

Sonic Youth

2/5

Meh.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

He's called the king for a reason.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Not my thing.