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Album	You	Global	Diff
Kilimanjaro	5	2.86	+2.14
The Genius Of Ray Charles	5	3.63	+1.37
Highway to Hell	5	3.66	+1.34
Grace	5	3.71	+1.29
Midnight Ride	4	3	+1

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Hearts And Bones	1	3.03	-2.03
One Nation Under A Groove	2	3.43	-1.43
Figure 8	2	3.32	-1.32
In It For The Money	2	3.23	-1.23
Autobahn	2	3.09	-1.09
The Rise & Fall	2	3.06	-1.06

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Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Wow, wow, wow. This is one of those albums I’ve seen everywhere but never heard. I’m glad I have now- this has heart, is cohesive, and gorgeous. In the musical Hadestown, the mythical Orpheus has a singing voice so beautiful it can sway the God of the Dead, and is written to sound a lot like the vocal performances here. I have to assume that’s intentional.

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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

There were more songs on here I liked than I feared there would be, but it’s still not an album I’d feel the need to revisit.

Adele

4/5

Great music for mourning a relationship at Barnes and Noble.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Not my favorite Talking Heads album, but there were some bops on here for sure.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Bob Dylan doesn’t do much for me as a singer or lyricist but the instrumentals here really carried the experience.

Dire Straits

3/5

The performances were solid and consistent, and the album overall had a really cool sound. I’m just not sure it was for me or something I’m going to seek out in the future.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

Excellent.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

It’s amazing how many of the tracks on here are played on the classic rock stations daily. They’re good but not my cup of tea.

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

I appreciate how this may have inspired a lot of music I listen to now, but by the mid-point, I said out loud, “we get it!!”

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Perfectly fine.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

The title is audacious, but it was a really excellent album.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

5/5

Enjoyed this one thoroughly, and it was added to my regular rotation.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

I liked some of these tracks for being goofy and the nice instrumentation. Can’t stand that album cover, though.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Solid reggae but not my cup of tea.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

I didn’t realize how much I like Black Sabbath until now. It’s fun that on some of the tracks, Ozzy sounds like he’s on the other side of the room from the mic. RIP Ozzy.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Good, still just not for me.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

I suspect that if I discovered them as a teenager, I’d love this band. This just isn’t the right time, and there isn’t anything exceptional here for me.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

This album was the epitome of cool when I was a kid, so I still get a kick out of it. It does lose steam a bit in the second half, though.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Some of these tracks felt delightfully edgy for the overall teeny-bopper sound, so I can see how this influenced later rock groups.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

2/5

This one is so influential and I have a lot of great memories listening to it in 8th grade German class, but it’s still a decently challenging album to just sit down and listen to.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

It’s fine, too bad it’s so hard to locate right now.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

I’ve already been a fan of this album and Kate Bush’s brand of dreamy, literature-inspired pop. It was nice to give this one a listen again.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

It’s pretty enough but really could only be good background music for me.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

There’s some really great lyrics on this one with a lot of very important social issues to this day.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

RIP Bowie, this one was short and to the point with a great sound.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

A lot of particularly great tracks on this one, and they could never make me hate arena rock. Some of the garbled samples weren’t my favorite thing to listen to, though.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Some perfectly pleasant love ballads here, but it felt pretty one note.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

I liked this one better than the last Bob Marley album that came up. I am struck by how much I enjoy his lyrics and composition, though it’s still not something I’m going to seek out regularly.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

1/5

I pretty deeply did not enjoy this one, though there’s nothing innately wrong with it. It’s possible Paul Simon’s voice and lyrics just rub me the wrong way.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

There were a lot of cool experimental sounds on this, but I don’t expect to revisit it often.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

This album had a very pleasant sound, just didn’t blow me away with anything.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Of the albums I’ve listened to so far, I think Kendrick’s the performer I’d most consider an artist. He has such a clear vision and point of view, and this was a really intriguing listen. I particularly enjoyed some of the references he made, like the interpolation of “Jump Around” about suicidal ideation.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

They could never make me hate you, The White Stripes, but this album probably could have had several tracks removed. It is an excellent garage rock record overall, though, and it does experiment with a range of sounds I enjoyed.