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Album	You	Global	Diff
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	5	3.1	+1.9
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	4	2.7	+1.3
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	4	2.81	+1.19
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	2	4.36	-2.36
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.77	-1.77
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	2	3.56	-1.56
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	2	3.55	-1.55
Aqualung Jethro Tull	2	3.44	-1.44
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	2	3.43	-1.43
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	3	4.42	-1.42
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.39	-1.39
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.36	-1.36

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The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Someone should check-in on their singer. He seems sad.

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Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

I think my hair feathered itself while listening to this.

1 likes

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Prior to listening, had I been asked if this album had saxophone on it, I’d have been wrong.

1 likes

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

They really Mars Volta-ed this one.

1 likes

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say these guys were upset with the political climate in the early 90’s. Fortunately for them, things have improved drastically since then…

1 likes

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Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Sounds like an album from the band that did “West End Girls”.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

This was fine?

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Songs about killing girls that cheat them? These guys are going to be huge.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Pretty good singer.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Remember Rio, and get down.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Technically only a year out, but would have sworn this album came out in the early 90’s… “Epic” is still alright.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Kül.

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

One song reminded me of Nirvana. Others reminded me of The B-52’s. Those aren’t comparison I’d have expected on the same album… that was before the song that sounded like The Aquabats.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

So this is what Canadian rock music sounds like... I like it.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

I bet these guys are a big hit at Renaissance Fairs.

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

1919 seems like it’d have been a weird year to be in Paris.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

I never would have claimed to enjoy jazz. I don’t know if this classifies as jazz, but, if it does, I was right. I don’t enjoy jazz.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Girl drummer!?!? Now I’ve heard it all.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

They really Mars Volta-ed this one.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Four people in one bathtub? These fuckers are crazy.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

I dig your groovy tunes, man.

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Nope.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

I have to assume this won’t be the only album of his on the list. If it is, they picked the wrong one.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Would have liked stories from at least one more location.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Sounds like another album from the band that did West End Girls.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Stop. Clap. Stomp, stomp, clap.

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Weird urge to worship Satan all of a sudden. Probably unrelated.

Elastica

4/5

If they didn’t sell concert t-shirts that read “Elastica Makes Me Ecstatica”, then what was point of any of it?

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Prior to listening, had I been asked if this album had saxophone on it, I’d have been wrong.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

No, thank you.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

2/5

More like Zed Leppelin, am I right?

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say these guys were upset with the political climate in the early 90’s. Fortunately for them, things have improved drastically since then…

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Probably would have been five, but this album didn’t quite reach out and touch me.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

God damn you, Buck Owens. You’ve done it again, you son of a bitch.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

It would seem pretty insensitive to comment about his skills as a musician clearly being superior to his skills as a swimmer.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

A “spoiler alert” for those that haven’t seen the movie would have been handy. No point getting invested in Freddie’s storyline now.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Also not great in a digital format.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

I don’t get the impression that she’d have been a fun hang.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

I wonder if there will be other colors that combine to make a Voltron-like, ultimate Monk album.

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Still not quite grasping what the big deal was.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

As a fun bit of trivia, they should consider listing the drugs the artists were using when they made the albums.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Based on their name I was expecting something a little more aggressive sounding. They should consider changing their name… and their sound.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Someone should check-in on their singer. He seems sad.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

2/5

Couple of these I didn’t mind. More of them, however, that I minded a great deal.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Pretty sure there’s a comma missing in “Boogie On Reggae Woman”. I also wonder if anyone ever told Stevie it wasn’t there?

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

This should serve as a lesson to aspiring musicians. Put out an album like this, and one day you might get to play high school reunion bartenders on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Is the list trying to bum me out on a Friday morning, or subliminally suggesting I should stop and buy red lipstick on my way home?

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

One song made me think of the Gin Blossoms. It was kind of downhill in either direction from there.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

I knew these guys were generally considered a reggae band (as one would expect from a bunch of British guys), but, armed with that information, this was still surprising.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

This is an album rating by me. The star value of that rating is four.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

I think my hair feathered itself while listening to this.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Bet some babies have been made after people listened to some of the songs on this album.

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Had they know print media would be dying in a few decades time, do you think they’d have chosen a different name?

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but some of these songs are pretty dumb.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Were I to ever meet someone claiming this was their favorite album, there could be no guarantee that it wouldn’t provoke a violent response.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Better than expected, but I’d set a pretty low bar going in.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

I heard the style, and did not miss the point.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Guess they covered their bases by adding “As We Know It”. That way that song can be relevant every few years when shit gets worse.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

If they were going for a shittier version of The Cure, I guess they kind of nailed it.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Probably not a frequent addition to very many party playlists.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

The cover photo would suggest that one member was a bigger deal than the rest of the band. Hope that doesn’t create any tension between bandmates at any point moving from this point.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Turns out I’m familiar with more Lou Reed songs, that I didn’t realize were Lou Reed, than I was aware of… could have done without the new familiarization with most of the others.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Through no fault of his own, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear his music is New Jersey.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

A few of these kind of sounded Sleater-Kinney-ish, which I wasn’t expecting.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

2/5

If I were keeping track of band’s albums from this list that featured the Confederate flag in the cover, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band would be up by one. Guess we’ll see if any Lynyrd Skynyrd albums make the list to give them some competition (I’m just assuming it’s featured in most of theirs).

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Not saying I’d want to, but, even if I did, I don’t feel I was given enough information to successfully “do the strand”.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

I’m not sure this is the right soundtrack for what the three on the cover were looking to get up to.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

Nah. I’m good.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Seems reasonably safe to assume that Davey Havok was listening to this pretty regularly while working on AFI’s latest album.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Mon frère. That means brother in French. I don’t know why I know that, I took four years of Spanish… granted this is Portuguese, but the point stands.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Feel like the album cover does a pretty good job summing-up the overall vibe of this one.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Sounds like a cross between Tina Turner and Faith No More. Which oddly seems to work better than I’d have anticipated.

Adele

3/5

Not sure anyone has mentioned it before, but she’s a pretty good singer.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Probably a good call to just go by Frank.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Probably ought to say something about these guys knowing how to wail.

The Undertones

3/5

With a name like this, these guys should have waited a couple decades and come out as a late 90’s ska band.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Not an introduction I was seeking-out.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Sometimes you can see a picture of somebody and be completely surprised to learn they have a drug problem. Other times, less so.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

My guess is that this will be the last of their albums (chronologically) that makes this list.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Felt like I was listening to Blue Ark radio while I had this on durning my drive to work. Could explain why I felt inspired to run a few people over and steal someone else’s car.

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Unexpected, considering dude looks like a substitute teacher.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Maybe if I was on the right psychedelics… but that’s a strong “maybe”.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

I wonder if I should create some rap music, because I’ve also never done disco.

Eagles

2/5

I had a rough night, and I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!

Led Zeppelin

3/5

This was easily recognizable as a Led Zeppelin album.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Hate to call her a liar, but the Bouncing Souls would lead me to believe she was not the last of the true believers.

Paul Simon

4/5

The real question is who will have more solo albums on the list between Simon and Garfunkel?… smart money is on Simon.

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Let’s just say that I feel differently about this album than Ben.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

I’m no expert, but I’d call this a jazz album.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Those jeans would be a bit uncomfortable. Looks like a prize hog, though.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

I don’t know, Lloyd. The French are assholes.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Wasn’t expecting Of Montreal to feature on one of these songs.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

Why revisit 61 when everyone knows that you get your kicks on Route 66? Just seems like poor trip planning.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Gui-TAR!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Seems like a nice, wholesome Christmas album by a nice, wholesome dude.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Well that’s just good timing to have this following a Phil Spector album.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

I was not appropriately prepared, on a Saturday morning, for how wild of a ride this was.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Pass.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

These Swedes might be onto something.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Am I the only person that has no idea who Stiills and Nash are?

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Apparently this proves that Doves sound better while crying.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

Still maintain that if they’d shave like 20 minutes of unnecessary sound effects off, and this’d be a pretty excellent album. Also, is this makes the list and Relationship of Command doesn’t, I will riot in the streets.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Not what I’d expect based on the cover art. There should be a saying about not making those sorts of snap judgements.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Had enough on this list in the early goings to clearly indicate that it’s a “separate the art from the artist” situation, so, I shall continue to rate in the same spirit.

The Libertines

3/5

Was going to say these guys have some songs that remind me of Arctic Monkeys, but I guess the other way around would be more appropriate.