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Album	You	Global	Diff
Greetings From L.A. Tim Buckley	5	2.83	+2.17
Black Monk Time The Monks	5	2.94	+2.06
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	4	2.04	+1.96
Eternally Yours The Saints	5	3.05	+1.95
Manassas Stephen Stills	5	3.06	+1.94
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	5	3.08	+1.92
Liege And Lief Fairport Convention	5	3.09	+1.91
Permission to Land The Darkness	5	3.13	+1.87
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
The Poet Bobby Womack	5	3.22	+1.78

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.68	-2.68
Amnesiac Radiohead	1	3.42	-2.42
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.12	-2.12
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.05	-2.05
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.87	-1.87
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	1	2.76	-1.76
Kid A Radiohead	2	3.71	-1.71
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.66	-1.66
Pornography The Cure	2	3.32	-1.32

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	5
Beatles	3	4.67
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
David Bowie	7	4.14
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
Johnny Cash	2	5
The Kinks	4	4.25
The Stooges	3	4.33
The White Stripes	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	2

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Leonard Cohen	4, 1, 3
Tim Buckley	3, 5, 2

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Makes for an excellent morning commute soundtrack.

Why did every British rock band sound identical for like 15 years?

Not bad, but not really my thing. Kinda went downhill after the first track (pun fully intended).

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Basically the experience of listening to a mid classic rock station for half an hour.

Just boring from front to back.

Not actively painful to listen to, but just a plodding slog to get through.

One of my best friends in high school had "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" as the first track on a mix cd and that has absolutely colored my opinion of this album. But it's fucking fantastic even besides that.

Music to sit on hold to

Going through my backlog, I really wasn't expecting this to make me look forward to Baby One More Time coming up next.

If you're going to make a two-hour album, consider making some of the music good.

Rounding up from a 3.5.

Going with the original International Edition track list, not the later releases with progressively more and more extra songs. Couple bangers (Steel Claw goes hard) but overall it's too 80s pop for me. Always liked her (and her and Ike's) R&B stuff a lot better.

Not bad, but not really my thing. Kinda went downhill after the first track (pun fully intended).

Better than I expected.

I've listened to Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash straight through more times than I could count, but I think this is the first time I've done it for this one. It's great, but doesn't quite reach the level of its predecessor. (Also damn if Sentimental Johnny by Flogging Molly isn't a straight ripoff of Fiesta)

Okay there's some primo shit

"Okay, so what if we take rock & roll, but make it boring?" - Thom Yorke, probably

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

Marvin Gaye singing about praying is surprisingly almost as compelling as Marvin Gaye singing about fucking.

Pleasingly Bowiesque

Couple bangers but not enough to make it more than meh.

I feel like I could reasonably give this anywhere between two and five stars.

I have an indelible memory of Candyman playing in the barbershop at boot camp when I got my first haircut there. Some good songs but also what feels like a lot of filler. Didn't need to be over an hour.

So I knew that the Bee Gees started out as a rock band before moving into disco. I did not know that the transition apparently included whatever the fuck this is, but it's good.

Not as good as the last Suede album we had.

The same song ten times and it's just as boring every time.

Elevator music.

Modern rock needs more piano. But I'm pretty sure that's not how Geronimo died.

Well that's just generic 80s-90s country.

I prefer my Elvis a little less croony, a little more rock and roll.

Why did every British rock band sound identical for like 15 years?

6/5, with the extra point for June Carter stealing the show on Jackson.

I think this is the first one that I started and just couldn't get through.

3.5, not my favorite from Stevie but still pretty good

Look, I know it's a trick question and Lemmy is God, but this just gets real samey real fast. Also, "I'm in your life, I might be in your wife" is a fantastic line.

Never was a big fan of the Police, might need to rethink that.

Easily one of the best rock albums of the 00s.

Well that went some places. Not totally opposed to some French Tom Waits growling.

How much meh electronica really needs to be on this list?

I don't know why I bothered asking "How much meh electronica really needs to be on this list?"

Actually some fun ones one the back half, but overall a lot of standard British 90s-00s rock that just drags on.

Really enjoyed it, and I understand the importance of it, but wasn't completely blown away actually listening to it.

Oh that's a weird one

I don't know what the hell this is but I dig it.

Makes for an excellent morning commute soundtrack.

Okay weird choice for the random generator to put two Pere Ubu albums back to back, but I like this one better.

Having somehow never listened to much Wilco despite them being big in my formative years, I wasn't sure what to expect. It started slow and I was worried it would be another meandering album of 90s sad boy rock. It's certainly got its fair share of that, and it definitely meanders, but into some sick-ass funky country rock that I really loved. So Wilco, I apologize, I wasn't really familiar with your game.

I can appreciate the lyrics and musicianship, but man do I have no desire to listen to that ever again.

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