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Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes • 5/5

Have listened to this album many times. Excellent. They don’t make good albums like this anymore.

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	5	3.41	+1.59
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	4	2.77	+1.23
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.82	+1.18
Dog Man Star Suede	4	3	+1

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Hard Again Muddy Waters	1	3.62	-2.62
1984 Van Halen	1	3.51	-2.51
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	1	3.39	-2.39
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	1	2.85	-1.85
Strange Cargo III William Orbit	1	2.77	-1.77
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.74	-1.74
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	2	3.42	-1.42
Opus Dei Laibach	1	2.39	-1.39

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Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Delightful for the most part

1 likes

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Like it more than modern rap but still gets very old after a few songs. Every song is roughly the same, random noise increasing in pitch for 5 seconds and then repeat with drums behind it, some record scratches mixed in, Chuck D rapping the same way every song, then 10-20 seconds interludes in between the verses for Flava Flav to scream yeah boy

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Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

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Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Bluesier then the typical Dylan that I like. Seems to be the start of his transition out of folk. Not surprisingly, I like the second half more which includes Its All Over Now, Baby Blue.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

Have listened to this album many times. Excellent. They don’t make good albums like this anymore.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

A little funky for my tastes. I prefer some of their other albums. Only liked last two songs.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

1/5

Pre thoughts: don’t like blues, it’s the same couple of riffs over and over in every song. Hank’s song in the Office ruins blues like Dewey Cox ruins biopics. Half way thoughts: I really don’t like blues. No structure like jazz or jam bands. Just not for me. Final thoughts: Before this exercise, I definitely wouldn’t have guessed that I like Romanian Death Metal more than blues. Hated it more than I expected to.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Knew most of the songs already. One of my top Bowie albums. Not usually a fan of covers unless they are drastically changed. Why is lets spend the night together here.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Knew most of the songs already. One of my top Bowie albums. Not usually a fan of covers unless they are drastically changed. Why is lets spend the night together here.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Went in thinking it’d be a 1 star. Still felt that way after first half as every song just seemed the same (only so much you can do with drums which is why I don’t really like modern hip hop). Second half kind of clicked and I enjoyed the last 3 songs or so. Probably closer to a 2.5 for me which is saying something but I’ll round up to 3.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

It’s pretty much one song - and it’s a good song - sung over and over with some slight change to the tempo and some different chords. I like it, but there’s only so much you can do with one acoustic guitar and drums.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Started off great and thought it was going to be a hidden gem for me as I didn’t know of the songs from this album, but fizzled out a bit. Suzanne is one of my favorite songs of all time but this album didn’t quite do it for me.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

1/5

Not really into that whole San Francisco sound. I’m hippie-ish but not this hippie-ish. This album generator experience is really telling me that I like structured music. Give me verses and choruses. This album doesn’t have many.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

I forgot how good their first two albums are before they really leaned into the pop side. This is pop too, but it has enough verve and feeling to keep it interesting. Kind of reminded me of Pablo Honey, and while Radiohead went on to be incredibly inventive and groundbreaking, Coldplay did the opposite. 3.5 up to 4.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Laughed out loud 5 seconds into the first song. What a time capsule. Definitely listened to this on my discman when I was in 8th grade. 1.5 stars.

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

Not my favorite type of music but can respect it. Couple songs that I liked. Thought I’d like it more than I did. Last couple songs almost dropped it to 1 star.

Kenya

Machito

2/5

Could be decent background music but nothing I would listen to just to listen to it.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Liked it a lot, some great unique guitar playing. Of all the albums I’ve listened to for this project, this has the most new songs that I’ve found that I like.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

1/5

Second album skip after two songs. No way I’m listening to an hour of this.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

5 or 6 incredible songs and the rest is so so. A double album, it means a lot of songs I was very nonchalant about. 4.5 up to 5.

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Kind of like it more than I was expecting but would probably never listen again. Janie’s got a gun is good. 2.5 down to 2..

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Couple of gems but jamming, ambient Bowie isn’t my favorite Bowie.

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Ooph these guys are angry.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Very solid. No real stand out songs but everything pretty good. Very impressive for first album since it sounds like he wrote, produced, and played every instrument

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Was shocked when a cover of Changes came on. Dug it.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

Started it and loved it and quickly went downhill. I bet boomers love this.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

60 minutes of any one instrument is a bit much.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

California Dreamin is a classic and I Call Your Name is great but nothing else really grabbed me. How do you rate an album with an all-time classic and not much else? Has to be at least 3 stars right?

1984

Van Halen

1/5

It’s definitely a lot of noise.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

Enjoyed it. Started running together at the end but I liked it

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

If this has razzmatazz or common people, it’s probably a 5 star.