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Album	You	Global	Diff
If You're Feeling Sinister	5	3.18	+1.82
Rust In Peace	5	3.24	+1.76
Fear and Whiskey	4	2.6	+1.4
Green River	5	3.78	+1.22
Axis: Bold As Love	5	3.79	+1.21

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Smash	1	3.37	-2.37
Eagles	1	3.29	-2.29
Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
New Boots And Panties	1	2.7	-1.7
Machine Head	2	3.59	-1.59

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Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

The people's Champs! CCR are perhaps the best American band of the late 60's. Fogerty has such tasteful chops, that subtle pushing of the 2 and 4 on the acoustic guitar propelling the title track is exhilarating. This is the best CCR album in my opinion because it doesn't have 16 minute blues jams, bare bones no messing around rock and roll. Sorry haterz.

1 likes

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

This sort of broke my brain in high school. I got really into the Pixies just as they were breaking up. I journeyed through their catalogue in reverse order. I thought this album was so insane at first. The Albini production, the little snippets of speech between the songs, Vamos guitar solo, all sort of changed my idea of what you could do with a record. Growing up super churchy I loved all the biblical allusions. Everyone contributes on this, Amazing Songs and Lyrics from Black Francis, Joey Santiago's guitar playing, Kim's ice queen backup vocals (and lead on Gigantic) David Lovering's weird reverse drum beats on Bone Machine. The songs are all bangers. OH MY GOLLY.

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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

I like the Garage-y songs and Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are amazing mostly due to the strength of Grace Slick's voice. Both of those songs come from Grace Slick's previous band I believe. I am a sucker for this era of music production, and I think the sounds on this are good. Not every songs however is that interesting but they are pretty brief. Not a bad listen but I probably am not going to reach for this again and again. The Skip Spence song is pretty sick. (My Best Friend)

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Definitely some top tier bangers on here. Some kind of meh stuff too. Probably tied for 2nd to me for Stooges lps. Favs Search and Destroy, Shake Appeal and Gimme Danger. I really hate the piano in the song Raw Power.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

WoooooooooooooAhhh woooooooooaaaaaaaaaooooohhhhh. I think self esteem is kind of the platonic ideal of what these guys do. Really dumb lyrics I don’t mind the guitar stuff the vocals are really annoying. Always double tracked and singing at the absolute edge of vocal range always. Ska song was like if Sublime sucked even more.

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

Competent playing, but not for me. I hate this type of thing.

The Band

4/5

Definitely important but not really what o felt like listening to.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

Maybe just my current mood but this album was sort of like a mouth sore.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

I can’t imagine being able to write this many great songs in a lifetime.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Fun times sounds like weed

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

I had this on CD and lent it to Marie Andree Hudon in the year 2000 or so. Does she still Have it?

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Band on the run is pretty great. I love the transition between the parts jet obviously is a fun rocker. It starts to lose a little steam by MAMUNIA however all in all good time.

Fred Neil

3/5

I kind of liked the folk rock production on dolphins with the tremolo guitar and drums, etc. i’m not sure why he would sing that he’s going to heaven in a split pea shell but I kind of like that 12 string warbley guitar.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

This is a fun album lots of fond memories listening to this as a kid great sequencing. I love it up until about i’ll weight and the last couple songs are a little boring however, all in all a great fun record it’s only 33 minutes so you don’t get bored of it.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Pretty good for Moz

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Such a part of me being nine or 10 hearing the songs on the radio all the time can’t say that I really want to listen to this that much as a grown man but all done

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

It’s funny how certain times of your life certain things are appealing and other times they’re repellent for some reason. I can’t really listen to Simon & Garfunkel that much anymore, but there was a time when I listened to them all the time. There’s something about Paul Simon where it’s sort of earnest but he also seems like he is not being sincere or something. I can’t put my finger on it. Dig the moog on save the life of my child.

Eagles

1/5

This sucks I hate to go along with the sort of hipster music critic, consensus about eagles, but it’s just soulless and too perfect I just can’t with this stuff

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Kind of fun not sure if I’m gonna be listening to this over and over but I do like the sounds of it where everything was so artificial sanding in the early 80s

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

4/5

I enjoyed this kind of strange hearing country music from Leeds in England, but I dig it. I might listen to this again.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

How fucking long is this thing?

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did. Maybe I am embracing my middle age. Some great lyrics nice grooves. I will probably listen again.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

The production sounds a little dated now, but it is a cool mix of a bunch of different things, dub hip-hop, soul, reggae, etc. I like tricky the best and I think the tricky album Maxinquay and pre-millennium tension do the stuff on this better but this is still good

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

3/5

Kind of a mess I like the energy, probably not the best thing to listen to first thing in the morning while trying to work

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Meh

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

#1 Record

Big Star

4/5

El Goodo is my fav

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Fine I guess

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

I have listened to this album in the past and have been on again off again with it however, this morning‘s lesson it sounded awesome to me. Some things are kind of dated like the funky funk and the slap bas but they’re just some great songs I could imagine how great this band would’ve been with a good singer, but other than that, it rips.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Great one appropriate amount of wankiness no blues jams.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

One of the best thrash albums. Good times.