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Album	You	Global	Diff
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	5	2.98	+2.02
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	5	3.02	+1.98
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
School's Out Alice Cooper	5	3.2	+1.8
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.26	+1.74
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.34	+1.66
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.36	+1.64

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.41	-2.41
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	2	4.25	-2.25
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	1	3.15	-2.15
Now I Got Worry The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	1	2.52	-1.52
Blue Joni Mitchell	2	3.49	-1.49
Third Soft Machine	1	2.45	-1.45
Opus Dei Laibach	1	2.39	-1.39
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	1	2.39	-1.39
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	2	3.38	-1.38

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	3	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
Green Day	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Beatles	2, 5, 4, 5

5-Star Albums (48)

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This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

This Year's Model: an angry, eloquent punk-pop tunesmith with a hell of a band to drive the bangers. Favorite track: Radio, Radio (which also contains the best lyric: "And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthetize the way that you feel"). Honorable mention: Lipstick Vogue (madman drummer), Pump It Up.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

I may have listened to this album more than any other in my life...it's one of rock 'n' roll's goats. It's a miracle that this rag tag band of drunk and high degenerates were able to take a break from their LA sleazeball lifestyle to capture the level of focus and clarity on this record. Slash and Izzy with all-time guitar interplay. Nobody with the range or power dynamics of Axl here. Favorite track: They throw the molotov with the opening guitar notes of Jungle, immediately followed by Axl letting the world know that his is the one that says bad MF on it. This one still rules from start to finish every time it comes on. Slash isn't quite in the top level of the rock 'n' roll soloist Hall of Fame pyramid with Hendrix, Page, and EVH...but he's in the tier right below with Angus, Joe Perry, etc. In the immortal words of my daughter when she was six years old about the Paradise City outro: "Slash doesn't wanna slow down."

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Dropping the horny-ass rock n roll sledgehammer, as they always do. Bon's a beast. Malcolm's the riffmeister general. Tight rhythm section for Angus to go apeshit over. "[She had] the body of Venus with arms."

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

2/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

Very scattered

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

I’m just not a gangsta. Or a hustla. Or a bitch or hoe. Or… Dre’s beats tho….

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Didn’t think id love it like I did

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Meh, but Papa Was a Rolling Stone is undeniably great.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Boston

5/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

Gah. This is not fun. Force more words into that line.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Oh boy. Hoping the album title isn’t forecasting my opinion.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

This dude says “me” more than Beaker.

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

WTF do I really need to hear this before I die? Ohh shit. Not what I expected. Kinda dug it.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

See notes on Snoop, as predicted by Mr. Miller.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Five if it were shorter

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

1984

Van Halen

5/5

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

The ultimate hook record

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

I feel like I’ll be eviscerated for this score.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Common

3/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Appreciate it. Millions of French can’t be wrong.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Suzanne Vega

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Compelling, some good grooves. But Aisha is too much to shake.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

As was said, “hippy dippy” but I always appreciate a good LBJ shoutout.

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

Tunic hit hard.

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Couldn’t get through it. One maybe two songs? Not sure the theater of it and the message quite lands for me.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Under My Thumb is very cringe, as the kids say.

Achtung Baby

5/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Never heard of them until I heard that goddess song pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty good

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Metallica

5/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

VERY GOOD sad girl background music.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

I’m not going to make it thru. I’m going to use this album to express how frustrating it is to have a list that comprises albums that are objectively shit just cuz someone in it went on to do other things that are, if not great, at least influential. These are not albums that I need to hear before I die.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

“The War on Drugs are this century’s great rock ’n’ roll synthesists, obviating the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the abstruse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. The War on Drugs have never done that so well as they do with I Don’t Live Here Anymore, their fifth studio album and their most compulsive and bold set of songs to date.” -posted by the band I mean…I’m my own biggest fan, too, but Jesus, this is a lot of hot air. First song was pretty good, but it was meh from there. Jackson Browne might have made this record.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

Homie’s voice is just grating to me. Undeniably good musicians, but not my cup of tea.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Talvin Singh

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Never has the vibe of a band music matched the vibe of their name. I thought this album was a field of flowers, cause I skipped through it.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Germs

2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

The Band

4/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Not wholly unpleasant mush

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

Bill, get all the frogs out of my voice. I see a deca man standing in there.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Traffic

3/5

Fred Neil

3/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

Love the production this album will always stir up something. But the lyrics are so cheesy on many of the tracks that I can’t bring myself to give it more.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Hard to say… All-time talent plus Gershwin. Yeah, the Gershwin’s I don’t know.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

Scum

Napalm Death

1/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

Was going to give a four, but then the last song derailed it for me.

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

I love this record. NEVERMIND will likely be remembered more fondly, but the musical growth shown here is pretty amazing. It seems more refined and grown up while retaining the sneering punk sensibilities along with some slyly inane heart-wrenching lyrics and visceral imagery.

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

Simple Minds

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Less yakking more music

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

A very high three

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Suede

3/5

Mehhhhhhh

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Funky motha(shut yo mouth)!

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Too short!

New York Dolls

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

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

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Same song over and over and over. But a good one.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Rock your body and cry me a river and a bunch of crap

Third

Portishead

2/5

Intriguing, but inaccessible. Not going to want to revisit this one.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

Now that’s how you make violence against women sound good.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Guero

Beck

5/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

Aside from a couple bangers, this is pretty boring.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Now that’s what I call musíca!

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Groovy hippie music

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

S&M

Metallica

3/5

I thought I was watching the longest John Woo movie ever

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Eagles

2/5

I hate the fucking eagles, man!

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Pretty good psychedelic rock.

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

I do like the line in Vincent “snowy linen land” cuz of the double meaning/descriptor. Painting on linen, but linen isn’t a perfect white, as most folks who write sappy songs about snow will describe it.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

So hard…TH>everybody, but TH>TH??!! On repeat, for sure.

Kilimanjaro

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