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Album	You	Global	Diff
Mask Bauhaus	5	2.85	+2.15
Out of Step Minor Threat	5	2.93	+2.07
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	5	3.38	+1.62
Synchronicity The Police	5	3.42	+1.58
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Arrival ABBA	5	3.5	+1.5
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.51	+1.49
1999 Prince	5	3.6	+1.4
Illmatic Nas	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Harvest Neil Young	2	3.82	-1.82
Moon Safari Air	2	3.58	-1.58

5-Star Albums (18)

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

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The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

It's not as transcendent as I thought when I was 15.

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1-Star Albums (1)

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Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

This album wasn't for me, and I'm not sure who it is for musically. Maybe the language barrier has me impeded, but the music stylings were a sign of their times and kind of just sounded like I was standing in line at a Häagen-Dazs at the mall.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

It's good. A lot of songs blend together. The hits are the hits for their uniqueness, the rest is just kinda there.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I hate Bruce Springsteen, but I liked this album.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Meh

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Didn't realize how many of these songs I knew and that they were Coldplay? It's a good, if not one-note album.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

As a young millennial who likes Pink Floyd, this was fine. I think I appreciate it more than I like it. For its time it was new and special.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Fantastic

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

After three songs I was ready to turn this off and I'm really glad I didn't. What a pleasant surprise from an artist I've never heard of.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

It's not as transcendent as I thought when I was 15.

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

This album was better each time I ran through it. What a treat.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

5/5

Holy moly

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Passing on Kanye no Nazi stuff here

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

This album was so good and full of hits and happiness

Mask

Bauhaus

5/5

I liked emo and goth stuff in high school, but I love this. Bring back real raw goth stuff.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

I typically love new wave brit pop so maybe it was really my high hopes that let me down, but this album was borderline ok at best.

The United States Of America

2/5

I'm not sure I was on the right drugs for this one.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

The greatest.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Generational hip hop album. Changed the game for everyone who has come since.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

I lined this more than I thought I would

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

I feel like my parents really undersold Bowie and now I'm playing catch-up. This was really good.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

This is 1 hr 52 min too long.

Paul Simon

5/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

This was not something I'd ever heard that sounded familiar and comforting.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

2/5

This album is not for me, nor is it for anyone not actively shooting an adult video.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Good albeit average 70's rock stuff. Fun to hear that 70's show song.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Boston

5/5

I remember listening to this album after I heard "More Than a Feeling" on Guitar Hero. I was 13 and it transformed me. 22 years later my stomach filled with butterflies as each song came flooding back. The baby did not sleep on the way to daycare yesterday, we were too busy singing.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Some songs did not suck!

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

I love this album but there are a few duds. Grace Slick might have my favorite voice of the era.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

My uncle has played in bar bands for my entire life. He plays bass and sings one song, La Grange. His deep bass voice is perfect for the intro, and he finds the key each time and rocks the house. When I was a little kid, this was magic. It still is at 35. 4 stars because Uncle Art crushes it.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Incredible album that only stumbles once or twice.

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

He's a gifted songwriter and this album is supposed to be amazing but I just don't get it. He has a mediocre voice and each song melodically sounds as canned as they come. Lyrics are on point, but I don't understand the appeal honestly. This is my first NY album on the list and I know I'm in for more disappointment.

1999

Prince

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

This album is good

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

It's fine

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

I'm out on the continuous stream of techno and fusion instrumental pieces on this list.

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Jim Morrison died and these guys tried to corner the market on sounding high behind the mic. They did not do it well.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Just cause I like it doesn't mean it's great. It's a good album, but nothing life changing.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

I only give this 4 because the other Beatles albums on the list are better

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

I'm biased as GFK is one of my favorites of all time. It's not a 5 star rap album, but is good and showcases his unique style.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Man this album just rules

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

4/5

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but this album is wonderful and should be on this list 100%. I feel like too many people would underrate this claiming it can't be as good as [whatever they like] when in reality this album has MAYBE 1 skip. The point of the list isn't to compare albums to each other, it's to determine if it should be on the list in the first place. This one should.