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Album	You	Global	Diff
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	5	2.46	+2.54
Fly Or Die N.E.R.D	5	2.86	+2.14
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	5	2.88	+2.12
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren	5	3.03	+1.97
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.13	+1.87
The Visitors ABBA	5	3.21	+1.79
Inspiration Information Shuggie Otis	5	3.27	+1.73
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Document R.E.M.	1	3.56	-2.56
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.34	-2.34
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	1	3.24	-2.24
Dust Screaming Trees	1	3.16	-2.16
Berlin Lou Reed	1	3.09	-2.09
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega	1	3.02	-2.02
Copper Blue Sugar	1	2.97	-1.97
Who's Next The Who	2	3.9	-1.9
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	1	2.81	-1.81
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.62	-1.62

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Nirvana	2	5
Elton John	2	5

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Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan · 1 likes

3/5

i've heard a few of the popular tracks. kinda felt like i was watching a good bad romcom. every track feels like it's worth blaring on the road. even though i mistakenly listened to it on shuffle... i thoroughly enjoyed myself. bangers all around. i couldn't help but enjoy it with irony. i think Steely Dan owns up to it too. the title of the album winks at their own critique and particpation with "the system"-- The Center cannot hold, yadda yadda yadda but at least i'm drinking Coca-Cola.

Joan Baez

Joan Baez · 1 likes

4/5

this self titled album felt like an offering to whatever it is you find Divine. there's so much emotional depth in her lyrics. genuinely felt the brokenness. Baez is safe in her own sharing of vulnerability. her storytelling and images of atlas... just powerful.

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Wild Gift

3/5

sounds like an messy dive bar in LA. a bit of romantic grime. Let’s call it sweaty punk.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

it’s like I woke up and realized that my idealized sense of how to live my youth kept me from losing the plot. flipped nostalgia. i’m left with making out what I just dreamt.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

wordplay like no other. this album felt like a raw exorcism of his own psyche. suburban rap at its finest.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

a Triumphant album in every sense BUT what is traditional and safe. modern by design and it isn't dumbed down for the masses. full of quiet victories in how it confidently pulls off an Intelligent Cool sound. it's just Architectural. it's consistently kinetic & so self-assured. i'll always wonder how it stretches time.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

easily a Manifesto to groove.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

i’ve never heard gospel music like this.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

these artists must have saved what we know as the genre of rock in the 21st century. i hear punk blues too. it’s guitar driven and i don’t mind it one bit. handful of standout moments that are timeless and iconic. it's sonically stripped down to its bare elements which gives it that raw quality and that is refreshing in the year 2025...Basic is best here.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

sounded confessional, like a prayer almost— a cry for salvation. interchangeably gospel music. Lots of yearning, lot of loss, and it was all felt. it’s progressively satisfying. enjoyed it closer and closer to the end.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

1/5

pretend to be of Scottish descent to MAYBE get into this album.

Berlin

Lou Reed

1/5

Like a watered down then bland imitation of Frank Zappa’s work.

Common

3/5

just call it an exhibition of Kanye West’s beat making and production— he stole the spotlight whether it was his beats or bars. Kanye really carried here while Dilla’s holding it down. it’s just hard to take yourself out of the thought that this album is an early display of Kanye’s experimental work. it added a whole other dimension to Common’s flows… which i liked at times. felt out of place and forced other times. i kept having to pause and really get a feel for their choices because even today, it’s so refreshing!

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

A cacophony of moments. hazy at times and then a crescendo of clarity and warmth.

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

I can hear some of these tracks belonging in the background of late 1960 telly ads. still a fun album to listen to.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

politically charged. heavy material with a good sense of humor. seamless transitions. timelessness,

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

gotta love a bedroom production. even with the album title, it is euphoric throughout—the kind of music you play when getting ready to hit the town. I enjoyed the use of litany in this album too.

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

so electric. felt so pumped. they really kept the energy up!

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

5/5

there is nobody like Alexander Spence. is "Oar" purely unconventional country folk? probably. i'd go far as to say that this is categorically avant-garde. the album is weird and raw. it expresses playful confusion, a jumble. and we could not have received a better ending to an album that exhibits who Alexander Spence is. he is the original Strange Creature and we'll never hear anything like this again.

Dust

Screaming Trees

1/5

what is remarkable about this album? Nirvana’s popular but at least they actually sound grunge. “Dust” sounds like Screaming Trees shop for grunge clothing at Forever 21. their first track immediately lowered my expectations for the rest of the album. I did like their choice of percussion bookended within in the last track “Gospel Plow” - it provided a nice contrast to their own Seattle “grunge” sound and lyricism. the rest of the album remains blah.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

feels like a collage of textures.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

purely Epic.

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

when poetry and punk collide... you'll find this album somewhere in the middle.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

such a fun album. Gives feminism a good name.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

5/5

Van Halen

3/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

1/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Proper Grunge

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Suzanne Vega

1/5

not sure why I find this album...funny. the first track really sets the tone for her album. this album sure is poetry but it genuinely sounds like a bit to my ear. kinda sound like really bad 80s tv. album gets more sophisticated in lyricism.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

5/5

one-man, double album. each side behaves like its own little universe. its stylistic sprawl isn't just variety, it's Rundgren showing he can genre jump like he's changing channels and yet... every track feels deliberate in its place. i especially like that he parks "intro" halfway through. the whole album comes off like a producer proving he can outdo an entire studio system with nothing but tape, ideas, and nerve.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

most tracks in this album sound good at first... then when I hear words, i'm immediately taken out of it. i appreciate the midwest math rock instrumentation a lot.

Copper Blue

Sugar

1/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

many biblical references - sounded a bit like epic poetry. very arcane language.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

5/5

a Cool like no other. so intimate and funky, it’s cerebral. even after all this time, it still sounds so fresh and influential.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

yearning, confessional—even leans faith curious? whatever it is, i don’t hate it. Also, what an ambitious album title. can’t say it carries the weight…

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

cinematic and seductive

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

hums at a higher frequency. feels like strange electricity. this band splinters and peak at the same time, that sort of tension gives this album bite.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

undoubtedly the sound of an 80s record

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

I’ve been arrested. this is the kind of album you listen to and you’ll never be the same.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

as experimental and weird as this album sounds… it is certainly rooted in an Effortless Cool

The United States Of America

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

incredibly influential album. it’s intentionally self aware and I have the utmost respect for what this album does.

Roxy Music

3/5

enjoyed the horns throughout the album

Document

R.E.M.

1/5

a lot of these songs sound the same. listening to this album is kind of like watching the theme song of a bad tv sitcom. I get that it’s woke but their message is barely listenable.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

post punk at its finest. love the concept "de-evolution" -- such a raw and aromantic reaction to the cultural rapture. it's leaning all the way in on hostility.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

banger after banger. what can I say? A banger is a banger.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

I hear the cultural significance of this album. handful of tracks were certainly in popular movies. this album paints soundscapes.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

Is this what taking steroids feels like?

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Suicide

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

this sound chooses scar tissue over over shine. Bless Albini for the surgical ear. it’s priority is structure over noise. i can hear the vocals and screams crystal clear like it’s a confession. i was present throughout.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

surprisingly sexy

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

I like that it’s stripped. no fuss, all story

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Nobody else does it quite like this…

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

5/5

Fly or Die is a mindset built on pressure: you either adapt fast, take risks, and level up or you get left behind. Fucking excellent.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

cruise in your car, avoid highways type music

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

nice to listen to when you’re cooking or doing chores at home. for such an up beat melody, I wasn’t expecting the existential lyrics— really liked that tension.

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

felt like I stepped out of the wreckage and chose clarity over volume. no grandiosity, just earned grace delivered in a near whisper. I like stripped countryrock.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

found this a bit overwhelming. It’s a bit ambitious too. dare I call it a cocaine album? theatrical but it’s not glamorous in any way.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

birthed a genre. Absolutely Legend

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

I love the unsettling atmosphere, the arrangements, the abrupt dynamic shifts, letting texture carry more weight. politically charged as heck. this is their most mature album. just pure pop perfection.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Pretenders

4/5

punk, romantic, definitely rock n’ roll at heart.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Absolutely No Notes.

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

that was in fact Timeless. it was emotional, had cinematic elements. not much to dislike here

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

a breeze.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

This album is simply Impossible and Pure. it goes so deep emotionally. Pet Sounds commits to the feeling and it never breaks. it’s timeless. you can always return to it and you can count on being changed forever each time. it grows with you in life. the arrangements swell and recede like one’s nervous system. even the silences create space and are treated as active frequencies.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

well that was fun futuristic funky

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

this is as sophisticated as thrash metal can possibly be. How do you not listen to the first track and NOT expect sheer and utter greatness all the way through?

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

really liked the instrumentation here. felt like they took chances and it worked a lot of the time. this album had a lot of interesting ideas. highly original. wish it was purely instrumental. glad this exists.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Every sound is dialed to excess and somehow it still feels intimate. that contradiction is why this record belongs in the canon. it sounds enormous because it is. it has that bruised maximalism and it’s guided by sincere feeling.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Smash n’ Sk8

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Do I need to be on heroin?

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

Who invented the concept album?! Who? loving the savage satire on commercialism. for its time, it’s certainly bold. felt like art rock album.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

This man was born to do the damn thang. I can hear a lot of this work has been borrowed throughout the ages. deeply influential. an undeniable voice and talent.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Neil Young's voice is made for parody. can't take his singing seriously. lyricism aside, this album was just ok. I can tolerate the renditions of some of these songs... I might actually prefer them.

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

at times, it felt like a chant, credence the next

Who's Next

The Who

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Diddy must have took this album very seriously.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

the kind of attitude that packs a punch. the samples carried.