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Album	You	Global	Diff
Public Image: First Issue Public Image Ltd.	5	2.43	+2.57
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	5	2.84	+2.16
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	5	3.18	+1.82
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	5	3.22	+1.78
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	1	3.38	-2.38
Smash The Offspring	1	3.37	-2.37
Eagles Eagles	1	3.3	-2.3
The Sensual World Kate Bush	1	3.17	-2.17
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	1	2.7	-1.7
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.59	-1.59
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	2	3.45	-1.45
The Chronic Dr. Dre	2	3.32	-1.32
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	2	3.29	-1.29

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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.

1 likes

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Never really liked this album too violent/misogynist.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (6)

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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.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Unsurprisingly I love this album. I think it’s hard to rate the first four pixies albums because they’re sort of different but excellent in their own way this one is kind of a subtle record sometimes even though it starts with a crazy rock song I love this surf elements on this and it’s a real guitar record.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Pretty great love the focus on Acoustic guitar. I have a great memory of Mike Martin playing tangerine perfectly and signing it and when he noticed we were all watching him he stopped.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Great voice

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

This is prime LA music studio rock with a crazy cast of characters playing on it. I love Monday Monday. It’s one of the first songs I can remember wanting to hear again when I was a little kid I think because my parents record collection was all sort of early 60s pop it really infected my brain and that’s the that’s the type of music that I can relate to the most

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Cool UK people sounding cool but leaves me a bit cold.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Not really my thing, nicely done though.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

Kind of UR moment for new wave I love the record, but it’s obviously sort of difficult listening at times

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

So fun got this on red cassette when it came out loved it. I remember it didn’t sell well and Gavin and I going to White Oaks Mall and him finding the CD in the long box for $2.99 pretty sick so many highlights I really love the B boy bouillabaisse at the end. Hey ladies, this is a fun record.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Pleasant but not sure if it needs to be on the list

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Great record, peak pitchfork indie hipster era.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

1/5

Fuck off

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

This is really good. I think Radiohead is probably the modern Pink Floyd. What do you think?

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Love the boom boom bap era

Parklife

Blur

3/5

I kind of like this album, but this wasn’t really what I felt like listening to this morning.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

5/5

So awesome

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

I think it’s cool that they’re sticking to their Irish roots to make a sort of modern Celtic music record however, Celtic music sort of gives me a migraine and I prefer the songs that are less Celtic and more rock. The song about Hank Williams is terrible but maybe this just isn’t my thing.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Part of the streak of the great stone stuff, five stars

Da Capo

Love

2/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

So good. DK is underrated in the discussion of hardcore bands.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

5/5

This is probably the most lauded album of the sister rock genre. Anyone surveyed that has a sister has a great love for this. I think the Murphy family was no sisters didn’t know about this record, but I think they’re coming around to it. I’m not sure if Crystalyn has a sister, but we’ll find out.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Pretty much the only Christmas we listen to. So good!

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Kind of a rip off of the Make Up but otherwise really good.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Good background

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Never really liked this album too violent/misogynist.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Overblown but ambitious.

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

Some truly amazing songs but also some bores. Not very cohesive.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

I like her vibe, this is maybe not the best of her stuff I have heard.

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

I guess it’s good at what it does. The singles are pretty good, lyrics are crazy bad. Very of the time production sometimes ruined it for me. Too much Dx7 and gated drums.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

1/5

Bee boop ah doo dah. I’m sure this is probably good but this type of thing grinds my gears.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Kind of boring, classic rock Steve Winwood obviously has an amazing voice, but whatever

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Like it, not sure if it’s the album I would have put on the list.