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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Clash The Clash	5	3.53	+1.47
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	5	3.54	+1.46
Stankonia OutKast	5	3.55	+1.45
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	5	3.64	+1.36
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	4	2.7	+1.3
21 Adele	5	3.7	+1.3
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	4	2.77	+1.23
Back In Black AC/DC	5	3.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.4	-2.4
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	1	2.91	-1.91
Scott 4 Scott Walker	1	2.81	-1.81
Faust IV Faust	1	2.78	-1.78
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	2	3.61	-1.61
Third Soft Machine	1	2.44	-1.44
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
2112 Rush	2	3.38	-1.38
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nirvana	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5

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British Steel

Judas Priest · 1 likes

3/5

Never having dug into their albums, it’s amazing how much good music is there underneath their massive hit singles.

The Next Day

David Bowie · 1 likes

3/5

I imagine there's more Bowie on this list but it's so interesting this made it. It feels like he's older and has slowed down. The inventiveness and what made him so unique is there but there's a spark seemingly missing.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse · 1 likes

3/5

Muse has some really solid highs but it's just not a sound or style that translates to a few albums. Always a band that I'll appreciate their bangers but that's it.

1-Star Albums (6)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

The issue I have with this type of music (especially in the 80s) is that the falsetto, high pitch for some reason always sounds the same to me across the songs. So individual songs can be good (and many are!) but it doesn’t feel like stunning. And frankly, my easy listening budget is spent entirely on Clapton’s work from this era.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

It’s Miles Davis. Of course this rules.

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

No idea what the David Bowie x The Smiths band does nothing for me - but they don’t!

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Never having dug into their albums, it’s amazing how much good music is there underneath their massive hit singles.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

It’s just the greatest. Maybe the best run to open an album ever.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

This rules. Energy, writing and sound just off the charts good.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

It’s funny this came on the day of Taylor’s newest album because it’s everything that Swift’s latest isn’t. This is innovative, inventive, fun and interesting. It’s well written, well scored and is actually rewarding to listen to. The ideal pop album. There’s a reason that 40 years on this feels fresh in a way that Taylor won’t in 6 months.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

Too weird and then just boring. No reason to be that long

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

It’s maybe the greatest blues rock album of all time.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

It is fine

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

The problem with a lot of this music is that by the time I came of age, they were jokes. But this is good! I get that's the point of a book and project like this, but this is much better music than reputation has done for gen-pop.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

This is what a diner trying too hard to be retro sounds like.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

IDK man. Who knows what this album wanted to be. Why did it have to start loud and then mostly become vibey instrumentals.

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Some of the largest songs surround by other songs trying to be some of the other largest songs. Ain’t ever been my thing.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

This is such a funny (and phenomenal) record when you know their whole discography. Alex stays within such a lane but the music is so brash and loud. As he got more confident, controlled and styled but bigger - so did the band but they got quieter. And one of the great rock singles of this century.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

2/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

This might be the greatest rock album of all time. At least, the most notorious / impactful. It sounds cheesy because they built the model and were endlessly copied. But noone gets the distinct mix of pop style writing and catchy music that is LOUD. It is still stunning to this day that this was the first album after the death of Bon Scott.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Just at one point of a several minute, repetitive drone does anyone go "hey, maybe wrap this up?"

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

The riff that spawned 1000 dusty stratocasters. Mostly fine!

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

The Clash

5/5

Just one of my favorite albums and one of the best ever.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

I really like how this develops over the course of the album. The music was always solid but the vocals really came into their own as the album went on.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Stooges

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

One of the greatest rap albums of all time with several best rap songs ever on it.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

This set the path for 21st century rock and it's interesting that even today there are artists revisiting this era to re-find this type of sound. From British punk bands to Olivia Rodrigo, Green Day's sound is still influencing a lot. It's good!

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

There are times when this really pops and is exciting to listen to. There are times where the Talking Heads + Bowie mash up gets a bit tiring. And there are times where there sounds like an extended solo on empty coke bottles happening.

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Absolutely not. You should have your guitar taken away for producing several 20 minute songs in a row.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Boston

3/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

There are times when I listen to Muddy Waters that I believe so deeply that he's the best musician that America has birthed and this is one of those times. So deeply from here but expansive in what music could do.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

There was no one like him and this was his best.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

1/5

Boring.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

It's the Talking Heads! Take Me to the River!

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

This isn't my type of music but hard to argue against the bang on classics on this album.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Muse has some really solid highs but it's just not a sound or style that translates to a few albums. Always a band that I'll appreciate their bangers but that's it.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

There's parts of this that is extremely my shit but dear god why are their 43 tracks. there's a solid 11 album in there but maybe this nonsense worked better in the 80s.

2112

Rush

2/5

Every future part team music teacher's favorite band in high school

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Adele

5/5

Banger after banger after banger.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Apparently the idea of the Pet Shop Boys has been better than the actuality of the Pet Shop Boys. It's not even that this is bad as much as this type of pop does nothing for me.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Better than anything the Beatles ever did.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Honestly, pretty cool? Very funky and vibey but I really grew into this album. One of the few I've put on cold to walk through NYC so that certainly helped.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

4/5

Winwood, having partnered with Clapton at times in their careers, shares a lot of the same type of blues-inspired easy listening that sucked up (frankly, too much) of their 80s output. But, because he sounds so much like Clapton I have such a soft spot for it. It's good, it's become cheesy but there's masterful work underneath it all.

Faust IV

Faust

1/5

Stuff like this is so bad but I guess I'm impressed they managed to sound like an entirely different (also boring) band every song

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Rating mostly based on how hard the album art goes.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

1/5

THIS IS SO BAD. WOW.