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Album	You	Global	Diff
Timeless Goldie	5	2.53	+2.47
Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely	5	2.67	+2.33
Palo Congo Sabu	5	2.69	+2.31
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	5	2.73	+2.27
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.76	+2.24
Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer	5	2.8	+2.2
Ys Joanna Newsom	5	2.8	+2.2
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	5	2.83	+2.17
Goodbye And Hello Tim Buckley	5	2.84	+2.16
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	5	2.85	+2.15

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5
Dolly Parton	2	5
Depeche Mode	2	5
Beatles	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5
Eagles	2	5
Metallica	2	5
David Bowie	2	5

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Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band · 1 likes

5/5

1,000 hip hop samples were taken from this bad boy!

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles · 1 likes

5/5

The first classic Beatles album to feature all original compositions…and they all Rule!!!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson · 1 likes

5/5

Some would say this is better than Thriller. I wouldn't go that far (Thriller is my second favorite MJ album. My first? Bad.), but this is perfection from start to finish!

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen · 1 likes

5/5

Post-Punk perfection, from a band whose influence is greatly underappreciated in American.

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The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

“Starlings” has to be one of the finest opening tracks on an album that most causal music fans have never heard. Just breathtaking.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Besides 3 Feet High & Rising, this is easily the greatest use of samples ever on an album!

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Where to begin? A revolution in sound. It didn't last, but the Alternative nation was an incredible era of music to grow up in.

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

The beauty of this record never ceases to amaze me. Homemade samples, scratches and Beth Gibbons’ immaculate voice.

Timeless

Goldie

5/5

“Inner City Life”, along with “Block Rockin’ Beats” by the Chemical Brothers opened my mind to EDM in high school. I’ve loved it ever since!

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

5/5

Bowie doesn’t get enough credit for being a kickass piano player!

In It For The Money

Supergrass

5/5

Britpop 4 life!!!

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Double the fun, double the Max, soluble the brilliance of Lindsey!!!

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

The sound of the resistance!

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

1,000 hip hop samples were taken from this bad boy!

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

The perfect double album, arranged, performed and produced to the nines!

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

One of the concept albums that never really leave my rotation. A glorious story of betrayal, murder and redemption.

The Specials

3/5

This is just fine. I would prefer Bob Marley or even The Mighty Mighty Bosstones...but this is just fine!

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

5/5

So many great Aerosmith songs throughout their career, but this is the one true classic, 5-star Aerosmith album!

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

It’s hard to pick a fave, but I think this is mine for the best post-Beatles album by any member!

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

5/5

Biting, devastating, hilarious. All of the feelings with this album.

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

The king, killing the game that only he could play!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

It's easy to forget how good of a pop album band Blondie was. Their singles were brilliant, but their albums were kinda perfect.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

A headphone masterpiece, that you better hope involves wireless headphones because you are going to pull your stereo off its shelf dancing around if those headphones are wired in!

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Hero worship of David Byrne begins here.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

The title song of this album, though not widely known, is one of my go-to sad songs of all time.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Roots rock before that was eve a genre!

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

All in all, one of the finest stories ever put to vinyl. Pretty sure it got me through high school.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

4/5

Pollard has written more songs than some people send texts in their lifetime!

The Clash

5/5

Gold…Punk Gold!

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Country folk at a level most artists outside of Willie Nelson never reach.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Swamp it up!

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

80’s Electronic pop with a sad soul.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

The first classic Beatles album to feature all original compositions…and they all Rule!!!

The Score

Fugees

5/5

A peak of the hip hop genre that has aged better than almost any album from the period.

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

The pre- Thriller MTV era in a nutshell…and a great dance pop album!

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

So perfect. So deeply sad.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

The king of New Orleans soul gives us some of his finest sides!

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Where Lana starts to become a major album artist.

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

Breakin' the law, Breakin the law!!!

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Harder to listen to now because of the homophobia, but at the time of its release, one of the most important hip hop albums of all time.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Some would say this is better than Thriller. I wouldn't go that far (Thriller is my second favorite MJ album. My first? Bad.), but this is perfection from start to finish!

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The versatility on this release. From the baroque folk of “Lady Jane” to the blues jam “I’m coming home”…Incredible stuff!

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

5/5

The most immaculate VU cover ever lived here.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

5/5

New Wave Manna!!!

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Early Beatles firing on all cylinders.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Such an incredible follow-up to something that probably felt impossible to each or surpass. Perfection.

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

A hip hop manifesto. Glorious stuff.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

A singer/songwriter stretches his wings to give a hint of the path he would take in his experimental 1980s.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Literally save me life, this one.

Ramones

5/5

A sea change at 33 1/3 RPMs

Paul Simon

5/5

A bright and shining way to start a solo career!

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

A Sample-forward masterpiece.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

The zenith of their power. They were good before and they were great after…but they were perfect here.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Absolute poetry.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Prog Rock moves into the 80’s gracefully with impact to spare!

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Raw, powerful and one of the best album covers of the decade

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

A Last Burst of Pure Genius before the MAGA and the Madness set in.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Basie continues his string of albums that glide him gracefully through his later years!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

A dream of a pop album: tough, melodic and sung to perfection.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

5/5

Beautiful, esoteric and oh so French.

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Overshadowed by Plastic Ono Band, this is Lennon and his poppiest, his most optimistic and his nastiest. An incredible statement.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

Singer-songwriter Americana at its smoothest.

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

“The Last Resort” is the fifth greatest song of all time

Beautiful Freak

Eels

5/5

Beautiful, off-kilter pop .

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Best Xmas album ever.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Early Cure hits so differently and so good!

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Never seen the appeal. I understand it is music that moves millions of people, but it is sounds super pedestrian to me.

Adele

5/5

The finest pop album of the early part of the 10’s!

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

5/5

The birth of metal. Delicious!

Iron Maiden

5/5

Metal perfection…almost Prog metal, but if not it, than it’s forefather!

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Every album you discover of Elvis Costello's is such a unique, rewarding experience. Blood and Chocolate is no exception!

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

The Riff alone is worth 5 stars. The rest of the album is superb as well!

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

1st major label album, and it set off a run on Warner Brothers that most bands would sell their souls for!

Destroyer

KISS

5/5

Bob Ezrin finally made this band sound on record like they did at their live shows...Such an incredible record.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Dance away the pain.

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

Bowie-produced madness. ESSENTIAL.

The Modern Lovers

5/5

John Cage-produced bedroom rawk...Essential!

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

5/5

What a journey this album takes you on. Trevor Horn is a production god.

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

A punk manifesto.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

I've heard the sound was not mixed well in the room, but it sounds immaculate on this live recording...Orchestral Metal is a powerful freakin' thing.

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

Eno, Fripp, Visconti & the Thin White Duke...Making magic in Berlin.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

5/5

Close your eyes and listen...and you hear Jeff Buckley...It's uncanny!

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

5/5

My fave MJ album, now and forever.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Like their idols The Beatles before them, this is a perfect debut album.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

A Pandora's Box into prime singer/songwriter manna, that once opened, can never be closed again. Lives are changed with every song on this one.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Maybe it wasn't trying to be a concept album...but it's the best Prog variety this side of Genesis' Lamb.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

5/5

Funk metal with a sardonic and biting edge.

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Perfect in every way. Never better, never duplicated.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Back when samples ran wild…and the headphones all transmitted masterpieces.

Joanna Newsom

5/5

A murderer’s row of talent on a perfect freaking album.

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Shuggie Otis

5/5

One of those albums that once it enters your conscience, it never leaves your rotation.

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

This, and Genesis' Trick of the Tail, show that sometimes you can go on without your original lead singer quite successfully!

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

5/5

Post-Punk perfection, from a band whose influence is greatly underappreciated in American.

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

5/5

Sometimes, albums that only got 3 1/2 stars in the Rolling Stone Album Guide are my favorite albums by that artist!

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Vocal gold.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Rage against the dying of the light.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

5/5

Country clawing it’s way through the 70’s fresh, vital and important.

The Cars

5/5

Power Pop never reached these heights again, until Ocasek produced the first Weezer album!

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Metal, as a genre, as a product and as an artform, peaked right here.

Van Halen

5/5

How do you put out your first album and shred this hard!??!

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

Bey's sister got pipes.

The Stone Roses

5/5

Madchester seemed to peak hear...and then came the Gallagher brothers!

Permission to Land

The Darkness

5/5

The Queeniest Queen this side of Queen!!!

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

One of the founding fathers of Prog. Still makes you wish things had gone different for Syd.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

The most opulent Nick ever got...and god is it gorgeous.

Palo Congo

Sabu

5/5

Afrobeat starts here!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

On of the 5 greatest live albums of all time.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Progressive Rock, after many starts and fits, is born with this earth-shattering classic for the ages.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Such perfect pop that even a progger like Mike Oldfield had to cover the title song!

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

5/5

Pop rock of the mid 90's variety rarely got better than this!

Moby Grape

5/5

An unheralded banger from the birth of the San Francisco psychedelic ballroom scene

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

"I got Music on My Mind, I got Talking Book, I got Fufinity, Fulfillity, fuck it, you know, the GOOD one!" - Eddie Murphy, Delirious

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Trip-Hop took me a minute to get. When I did, this was my bible.

Trio

Dolly Parton

5/5

Honky Tonk Angels, All!

NEU! 75

Neu!

5/5

Krautrock’s Krazy Krings

Real Life

Magazine

5/5

A beautiful 60s folk album that somehow was recorded and released in the 80s

I See You

The xx

5/5

Electronic glory!

Eagles

5/5

Hate it all you want, it’s a debut for the ages.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Gold R&B Classic right here

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

It's hard to think of a more fully formed band on their first record.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Nile Rodgers/ Bernard Edwards-produced perfection!

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

The true out-there journeys jazz could take you on are in full effect on this release.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Best white boys ever in the game…sit down, Marshall.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

A rebirth, excellent in it’s sad fury.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

It's hard not to award every Zep album five stars...So why fight it?!?

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

I want "Moonlight Mile" played at my celebration of life.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

The balls it took to make this brilliant work. Just astounding

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

5/5

Sounds transcendent on vinyl

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

5/5

Britpop doesn’t happen without him. The current king pays his respects.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

A film in an album’s clothing

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

5/5

Freak Folk lo-fi perfectrion.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

5/5

PERFECT SUNDAY MONING COFFEE MUSIC ALERT!!!

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Pop albums, with the exception of Beyoncé’s Lemonade, rarely get better.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

5/5

Hair metal never topped this peak.

White Ladder

David Gray

5/5

Legit a life changer.