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Album	You	Global	Diff
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	5	2.76	+2.24
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	5	3.11	+1.89
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	5	3.15	+1.85
Under Construction Missy Elliott	5	3.15	+1.85
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	5	3.19	+1.81
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.31	+1.69
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.34	+1.66
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.34	+1.66

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live! Fela Kuti	1	3.44	-2.44
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	1	3.33	-2.33
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.32	-2.32
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	1	3.19	-2.19
The Healer John Lee Hooker	1	3.18	-2.18
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	1	3.12	-2.12
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	1	3.05	-2.05
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	1	3.04	-2.04
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Bill Callahan	1	3.02	-2.02
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5
R.E.M.	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	2	5
Nirvana	2	5
Elton John	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5

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Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin · 1 likes

5/5

I never heard the rest of this album other than the really popular songs. Although I probably won’t listen to this a lot, I understand the talent of Aretha Franklin.

1-Star Albums (13)

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Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Good

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

I’ve never been a massive fan of the late 80s new wave since pop. And Depeche Mode is unique. It’s defining trait is a more avant-garde artistic version of the style of music. The dark voice, while cool, tends to fade in the background and I have a hard time discerning songs from one another. However, as an example of the style of music, this album was pretty Correct.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

I split Beatles into two camps - 50s/60s pop music and odd, experimental 60s/70s music. I think this one splits the difference. Songs with substance but also easy to listen to

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Good

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Not my "Jam" but it's clean and well orchestrated

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

Meh

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

I honestly loved this one. You can hear a lot of Elliott Smith influences, especially a great example of a more sophisticated version of 60s pop

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

1/5

Nope

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

I can appreciate it but I had to turn it off because I found it unlistenable while trying to do work. It's too experimental, and half the songs end up in a carcaphony of cymbals an noise.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Classic

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Great sounds, great songs. I think this was the first time I was exposed to the concept of "low-fi". I marked this as 4 since I don't think I love listening to the whole album. The basic drum beats get repetitive.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Pretty good find, and good story. I like the references back to the postpunk era that I like a lot.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

5/5

I went from “oh wow, they put an arbitrary hardcore punk album in this list and it’s nothing special” to “this might be one of the most beautiful punk albums I’ve ever heard.” Orchestrations of horns and strings, musical genres woven in you wouldn’t expect, anthemic punk choruses. This was 5 years after social distortion’s breakout album and the same year of Rancid’s album. I’d put this up there with both.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Great artist great album

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Meh

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Holy Guitar!

The Stone Roses

4/5

Definitely sounds like early 90s alternative, but this came interestingly early in 1989. Reminds me of a British REM. I like it for a certain type of mood.

Os Mutantes

4/5

Definitely as described.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Who are good but you can have too much Who

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

5/5

Great guitar but a great performer. Rea rock and roll

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

1/5

Sonic garbage. I remember the feel of this era, but there were bands that could feel anti-vanity and anti-establishment and still be melodic. This feels like they’re making fun of music, not evolving it

Wild Gift

3/5

Good early 80s punk

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

This album I’m pretty sure would be amazing at any point in time in the past or in the future. I saw Fatboy Slim perform at the 930 club in Washington DC and it was electric. I had always previously passed off mixing and DJing as less creative as live music creation but oh man, what a show.

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

5/5

Great unique album to have in the background. Makes happy

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

I didn’t realize how old this album was. I guess because I didn’t know about it until the 90s. Definitely set the stage and tone for what happened with 90s alternative.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

I liked the next album better, but this is good-mood ambient techno

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

This is between the two greatest Radiohead albums, and in retrospect you can hear them bridging their identity from one to the other. This still has the 90s alt-rock snarl of Pablo Honey but they play with rhythms and instruaments that will ultimately get them to Ok Computer, one of my favorite, most innovate albums of all time. I truly love this album and reminds me of my early college year dorms.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Timeless.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Good album but there are better Elvis Costello albums.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

English folk ? I guess it’s a thing

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

I never heard the rest of this album other than the really popular songs. Although I probably won’t listen to this a lot, I understand the talent of Aretha Franklin.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

All this English folk makes it feel like I’m living in a Wes Anderson movie

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Not sure I need to hear this before I die. I think at the time it was innovative? But hasn’t aged well

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

War

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Classic

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Don’t understand why I needed to listen to this before I die

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Really couldn’t get into this. Delicate and emotional soft rock.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

1/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Definitely defines an era and genre. If I was to tell someone what good melodic thrash metal was, I’d point to this album and a couple metalloca albums

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

folk with a snarl

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

1/5

Big No. Is ambient whining a genre now?

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Interesting sound coming from 1969. I get that this was the start of a movement. However, the album itself wasn't great. I bet it was awesome to be at the show, but not that great to listen to with only audio.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

I can’t not love this album. It summed up our mini generation and a sensibilities we had as 8/9 gradesrs.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

Traffic

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

One of my personal tops

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Great later album. He incorporates more instruments and cleans things up but still remains Dylan

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Great jazz singer never heard of her until now

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I can’t listen to this album and not get psyched up

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Pretty great album. I had heard the arctic monkeys before but never took the time to listen a full album. Grit, angst, with some swaggering vocals and good rhythms.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

Love the doors. This isn’t their first album though which I think is more essential

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

I’m embarrassed to admit this is the first time I’ve ever listened to this full album. I’ve always had a reverence for R.E.M. as the father of something that I loved musically. But couldn’t get past shiny happy people. This is a wonderful album. I’ll listen to it a lot. Aside from the big songs There’s a couple gems that I’ll probably play on Repeat before I put this down.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Janis Joplin was amazing.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

Good, but didn’t blow my mind

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

One of my all time favorite albums.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

1/5

Not worth listening to

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Common

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Underappreciated, timeless album. I think this would get significant airtime today and feel just as progressive.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Really liked his. Clean listenable blues

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

1/5

Infected

The The

2/5

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Not for me

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Their most mature and best album

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Not my thing

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Great era, great songwriting, unique voice

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Open your mouth and sing. Stop trying to sound cool

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

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

The Kinks

5/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Not sure why I needed to hear that

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

2/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Beatles are pretty good

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

I think I like Elvis

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Not for me

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

1/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

I get it. There’s super passion here.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Don’t hate it but not my favorite era of music

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

The story of this album in this band is really interesting, but I don’t think the album itself is very good

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Love the band but not this slbum

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

The xx

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Joan Armatrading

2/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Why

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

There was a time that I’d be really into this. I think a part of me still is, but I’d have to be in the right mood.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

If I ever wanted to play a Bollywood album, I might choose this one, but I probably won’t ever want to play a Bollywood album

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Solid jazz album, the songs at the end, though get a little off for me. But I wouldn’t mind listening to one side of this.

California

American Music Club

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Roxy Music

2/5

2 stars because of the drummer and guitarist. They both sounded amazing, only to be bizarrely interrupted and marginalized by an odd sounding meandering nonsensical wind instrument(sax?) and vocalist. Another example on this list of a promising, but unfinished project

Debut

Björk

3/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

This is why people hate music critics

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers