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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
1989 Taylor Swift	5	3.26	+1.74
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.53	+1.47
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	4	2.56	+1.44
The United States Of America The United States Of America	4	2.61	+1.39
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.62	+1.38
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	1	2.76	-1.76
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	1	2.64	-1.64
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	2	3.43	-1.43
Punishing Kiss Ute Lemper	1	2.41	-1.41
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	2	3.39	-1.39
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	2	3.38	-1.38
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	2	3.11	-1.11
La Revancha Del Tango Gotan Project	2	3.04	-1.04
Hunky Dory David Bowie	3	4	-1
The Coral The Coral	2	3	-1

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Radiohead	2	5
Beatles	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Fall	2	1.5

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Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson · 1 likes

2/5

Can’t figure out why this is on the list.

1-Star Albums (3)

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Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

ti esrever dna ti pilf ,nwod gniht ym tuP! Really loved this--somehow had never heard it before. SO many great featured artists.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Not the Willie record I would have chosen as representative of his genius. This is is one of the greatest cover albums of all time, though.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Take out the dumb skits and this is an all-timer

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Iron Maiden

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Wonderful record that I had never heard!

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Foundational!

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

I really wanted to be blown away by this. Thundercat's talent is indisputable. But I found the tracks lacking in range and diversity. I wanted big jams as well the quiet contemplative and funny stuff that the WHOLE album basically is. All 24 tracks. Oops... I listened to Drank accidentally. Drunk is much better.

Django Django

3/5

This was new to me and felt like a more accessible Animal Collective. I liked it and need to remember to revisit!

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

I don't think I'd ever listened to this whole record. It is clearly a classic. I'll be returning to a few of these tracks (beyond the obvious) for sure!

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Classic!

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

I'd never heard of this band before... honestly, not that impressed.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

There are moments of awesome here, but I will likely never listen to anything here again except maybe "Walk on By."

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

One of my favorites!

The Stone Roses

3/5

Better than I remembered

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

Black Flag is...adorable?

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

In context--at a club--I'm sure this is really fun. But as casual listening... it's obnoxious.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Probably my favorite REM record and an absolute 90s classic.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Some absolutely classic songs here. I appreciate the history, for sure.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

delightful.

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Never my favorite 90s record, but the singles were fire.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

1/5

No thanks

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Not my favorite PG--but I had forgotten how jazzy it is! Also, Solsbury is an all-time banger.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic is as classic does.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

This is just an incredible record. I blame Buckley for popularizing Hallelujah, though.

Moby Grape

3/5

Never heard of these dudes. Glad to be introduced to some excellent SF rock.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

I like Bowie. I appreciate Bowie's genius. I wish I loved Bowie. I don't love Bowie.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I like Born to Run better. This feels like one long song.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

1/5

This is post-punk? It feels like drunk punk. No thanks.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

One, two, three and to the four…

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Strokes-y, but sometimes better (and sometimes worse). Still a great record that I had never heard of.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

Timmy needs a cold shower.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre still at the door...

2112

Rush

3/5

Rush is a great band that I don't really like.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Fantastic record. I'll be going back to this one. Shooby-dooby!

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

This is fine. Def understand Pulp's place in britpoptopia. I wish the songs were better.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

This is my favorite PG and the first in a trilogy of masterpieces: So --> Us --> Up

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Funny!

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

five or six absolute all-timers (out of 13) is enough for a five-star rating, right? Or maybe it's this: if more than one song on the record can almost bring me to tears. FIVE STARS

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

I like this a lot. It's a once a year listen, for sure. For that and the iconic album art -- 4 stars.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

This was fine. JB, a legend. Not likely to go back to it.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Tempted to rate this as a 3, but it has like four bangers on it. Is it as good War, JT, Acht, or even Zooropa? I don't think so. So compared to the 4s and 5s there, I guess it has to have a 3. 3.5 officially.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Weird, but cool 80s weird.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Wonderful album that is only listenable once a decade.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

It's like Pink Floyd, but way less interesting.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

I liked this but am not likely to listen again.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

The United States Of America

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Adele

5/5

This five-star rating surprised me, but it has zero skip tracks, so ::Fire::!

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

This album doesn't have any real singles, but it has VIBE for days.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

beautiful and weird

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Not really my thing, but I get it.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

I just love the sound of VM's voice. I could listen for days.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Reinvention.

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Honestly, disappointing. One-single album that establishes the band's sound but doesn't yet really allow them to shine.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

I like this. I should listen again sometime.

The Coral

2/5

This was fine. I likely won't ever listen again.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

4/5

This album feels embattled. Lennon is embattled. A direct comparison with McCartney's first record makes it all the more so. Lennon is broken, bleeding, hurting, needing. Macca is like exuberant. Who broke up the Beatle's now? Someone is conspicuously carrying that weight...

The Cars

4/5

Solid, wide-ranging, eccentric, power pop! Love it. That this was the debut is even more impressive.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Not really my thing, but OK

The Clash

4/5

Great! I wish I was more of a fan.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

AWESOME!!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Such a vibe!

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

This is also a vibe.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Something about this didn't then and doesn't still appeal to me. Too heavy? Too much butt-rock remnant? Not sure. I like one song a lot, the rest... less.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

I liked this very much.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

4/5

What strikes me most here is that NONE of the big Monkees hits are on this record, yet it remains SOLID. Really enjoyed this one, which was new to me.

Technique

New Order

4/5

I'm a fan, but this one is a weird choice for the 1001. No singles.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

For what it is, this is the end-all, be-all.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Kendrick raps about experience far from my own. His genius is undeniable, but this isn't ever going to be everyday listening for me. Even so, I think this is a near masterpiece. TPAB will come up at some point, and while I like the jazz influence on that record, this one feels more embedded in KL's personal life and the culture of the street.

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Me likey.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

One absolute classic and ten more bangers..

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Solid record with a clear vision of itself and its audience.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Classic!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Never my favorite

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Lower marks from me because the non-singles are barely listenable.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

So close to perfect

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

An incredible album that I should have been into in the 90s but was not

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Banger

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Interesting but not my thing.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

5 stars if it weren't for that absolutely obnoxious first track. We get it JH, you can make your guitar sound like traffic.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Classic tunes does not a perfect album make.

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

i'm sure this is great. it is just not my thing... at least not on this listen.

Le Tigre

3/5

This is really fun.

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Hard to rate my favorite band. This album has two of my very favorite Cure songs on it as well. Do I like it MORE than albums I gave 5 stars to here? Yes. Do I think it should be rated as 5 stars? Maybe not. It's gonna have to be 4.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Gosh, that's a lot of blues riffs to get through before you can listen to Layla. Is it weird that I like the long outro for that song better than anything else on the album?

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Saw a compelling argument that the presence of the best Beatles song ("Tomorrow Never Knows") on this record (which is a good choice) makes it a strong contender for best Beatles album. I'd agree... almost. It has "Yellow Submarine" on it, which is arguably the worst Beatles song.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

One of my favorites from the early aughts.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

This album has my favorite RS song ("Can't Always Get...") and arguably their best song ("Gimme Shelter") which includes one of the most incredible vocal performances of all time with the middle-of-the-night vocals from Merry Clayton. That song kinda creeps me out though.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

No real standout singles!

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

4/5

I thought this was going to be one thing and then it was totally not that thing. And it was great.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Not as interesting as I hoped.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

kind of a slog. 2.5 rounded up

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Not really my thing, but verrrry vibey.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Magisterial

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

I love the 60s-era Temptations. This was not as good as I hoped.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Again, gangta rap will never really be my thing. This one gets particularly pornographic. But the hits are the hits and the beats and sample work here are great.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Bring on the Bjork

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Every song is a bop. I think it took me 30 years to realize the pop sensibilities here... it just sounded heavy and awesome (and subversive) to me as a teen. But there is a direct through-line from the Beatles to Nirvana. It's not hard to see at all in hindsight.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

First album I listened to twice to be sure it couldn't be a 5. I just really liked it a lot. 4.5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

sounds like a masterpiece, must be a masterpiece.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

SOLID METAL. I get the appeal for sure.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

He sounds as good live if not better... That's rare.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

locked in on this sound

1989

Taylor Swift

5/5

I mean, this is a pop masterpiece. It falls off (barely) at the end... but such achievements should be recognized and celebrated.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

never heard of these dudes. I can't believe there are three of their records on the list.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

I liked the vibe quite a lot.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Hard to be objective here as this album and its b-sides (via Aeroplane Flies High) was probably the most important music to me for at least four years--1995-1999. But it holds up... I don't listen very often any more, but--there is incredible range here. I think the double album was ambitious and I don't think it could have been any other way, but there are songs left off that might have made it better (Ugly, Set the Ray, Jupiter's Lament) had they replaced the weakest tracks on the album (We Only Come Out at Night, Tales of a Scorched Earth, and--sorry--Lilly). The other thing I want to say here is JAMES IHA. Iha is the George Harrison of SP. This record's James songs and B-sides are superb and need more recognition. "Take me Down" is gorgeous. "Said Sadly," "The Boy," "Believe," "The Bells"--all incredible. His solo record Let it Come Down tracks right along side Harrison's This Too Shall Pass: A full record of gems passed up by the main band's double album. He was right to feel dissed. So, let's hear it for The Boy.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

solid.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Can’t figure out why this is on the list.

Common

5/5

This record! Incredible. There is one track (Testify) where the repeating sample gets annoying, but wow was I blown away.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Great production here, though I always wondered why they wouldn’t tour with a bass player when there is such great bass work on the album.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Having an accordion with a dance track beat is almost enough to give this weird choice an extra star. Almost.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

This was better than initially expected. I appreciated the opportunity to listen.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Two all timers on an album of decent blues/folk tunes and I'm right between a 3 and 4

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

It's wild to me that this band has three albums on this list and the National has one. And there are so many great artists that have none. Like, why?

The Band

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

I know this is classic, but the gigantic farts in the last song dropped this from 4 to 3.

Tical

Method Man

4/5

I wish I had had the head for hip hop in the early 90s. I missed out on so much while I was out smashing pumpkins.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

Not my thing. But I'm sure it's somebody's thing.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

I'm just going to say the quiet part out loud: Joy Division is one of the most iconic bands of all time AND Ian Curtis is a terrible vocalist. On Unknown Pleasures, the best song is the one Peter Hook sings on (Interzone). He gets better on Closer (or maybe they just did more vocal takes). But his singing is just distracting on this first album. For me it is so bad that it undermines the whole vibe they're shooting for. Curtis (God rest his troubled soul) sings these long held out notes and they are hopelessly flat. So a few hot takes: First: New Order > Joy Division. (At least in listenability--they never reached JD's iconic vibe) Second, While Joy Division basically wrote the blueprint for post punk and the best possible version of Joy Division is Interpol.

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

Several good songs on this, but it's odd to me that Control isn't on the list. It has better songs. RN's centerpiece is RN and every other songs has the same beat.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

I want to like this. I love the guitar stuff... but DB's vocal style was sometimes just barely tolerable.

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Track for track classic. Incredible.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

Proto primus, but still.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Destroyer

KISS

4/5

I mean... why the hell not?

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

There is no way not to understand this as classic.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Brilliant.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Almost every track is a classic.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Love the sound. Love the song. Love the organ. But a classic song does not a classic album make.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

This is my favorite, if not the best Radiohead album. EVERY TRACK IS INCREDIBLE. Also, in case you're wondering, OK Computer is the best Radiohead album.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

This was a hard listen. It reeked of early 2000s genre dysphoria. Pharrell trying to to alternative rock... kind of? I would have much rather had listened to a hip hop or r&b record.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

I guess I’ll start playing which Beatles album is the best Beatles album, because every one of them from Help on is 5 stars. This one is near the top but not quite the top. Maybe in 2nd place. Will be thinking harder, but I just think the medley is one of the most interesting things—if not my favorite Beatles songs. Also, THE ORGAN on this is incredible. Was Billy Preston a Beatle?

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

This is one of the best albums--if not THE best--of the 2000s. I'd probably say Sufjan Stevens, Illinois, Wilco YHF, and then this one.