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Album	You	Global	Diff
Spiderland Slint	5	2.97	+2.03
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3	+2
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.35	+1.65
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	5	3.38	+1.62
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	4	2.39	+1.61
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.48	+1.52
Hotel California Eagles	5	3.59	+1.41

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.71	-2.71
Document R.E.M.	1	3.55	-2.55
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.29	-2.29
Pump Aerosmith	1	3.11	-2.11
Connected Stereo MC's	1	2.95	-1.95
Whatever Aimee Mann	1	2.84	-1.84
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79
White Blood Cells The White Stripes	2	3.65	-1.65
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.62	-1.62
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.48	-1.48

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Artist	Albums	Average
Miles Davis	2	5
Radiohead	4	4.25

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Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	2	1.5
Aerosmith	2	1.5

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It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs · 1 likes

2/5

That sounded thin

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow · 1 likes

3/5

Bit too artsy for my taste

Document

R.E.M. · 1 likes

1/5

Vocals are not growing on me. Probably a good album for some.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths · 1 likes

5/5

A classic that I Love

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses · 1 likes

1/5

Barely bareable if you manage to ignore the vocals.

1-Star Albums (7)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

A return to a great record. Its difficult to not feel that the time for "21st century schizoid man" has only really come in the present. In all it's proggy glory, In The Court Of The Crimson King is full of hooks and instantly memorable melodies.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Quite enjoyable, not as minimalist as Either/Or that I had previously listened to a couple of time. Still haven't taken the time to go into the lyricism more deeply.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Very energetic, but also calmer gems in here. Loved listening on Headphones.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Like it for what it is.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

A classic that I Love

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Good, probably really good, but not my favorite Dylan.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

My first time listening to a full Marilyn Manson Album. It didn't do very much for me.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Really growing me. First time really paying attention to pixies lyrics. Noise pop?

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Big throwback to playing a burned CD of this in high school. Burial is such a great track. I like the whimsy Tosh tracks less.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Pretty good, completely new to me.

Document

R.E.M.

1/5

Vocals are not growing on me. Probably a good album for some.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Knew half the songs from passive exposure. Worth paying attention to!

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Not bad! First listening to a full record.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Ok, on the record that features "Love fool", I did not expect multiple instances of Sabbath worship! Outside of the well known hit, this record is packed with hooks and bits of cool lines.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Bleak and minimal, still need to listen to it more .

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Loud. Lots of hits, still deserves more listens.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

Barely bareable if you manage to ignore the vocals.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Pretty good. I am liking this way more than the last time I listened to it. Making delayed trains around Köln much smoother.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Paying attention to this reveals a lot of finely crafted melodies. It's also not produced in an overly clean fashion like some of the following folk rock of the nest decade will be.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Catchy and repetitive

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

An interesting carnival.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Bigger than the meme

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Meeting me in a spacemen 3 / spiritualized phase, this fits right in.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

This would go super hard live

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

Oh so mellow

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Can there be too many vocal lines?

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Quoite Kinky

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Hooooooorns

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Doomy, grungy, and lots more

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Alright

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Solid as they come

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

Liked it better than Document

Wild Gift

4/5

Got me humming along

Scissor Sisters

2/5

Meh

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Might be a 4 even?

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Pretty pretty good

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Hearing a lot of Bowie in this one, obviously

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

2/5

Catchy, but I just don't like the vibe of those guys

Play

Moby

3/5

Good sample choices throughout

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Never heard about this

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

the lord is testing me

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

not fully clicked yet, but see potential

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Goes hard as ever

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

The worst and best moments of classic rock all in one album

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

conceptual!

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

not just the filter sweep

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Not much to say

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Straight up Björking it

System Of A Down

4/5

Poison!

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Hmrooorm

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

Weirdly enjoyable

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Yess

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

It's not bad but I rarely listen to it

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Radical

Eagles

4/5

Country rock

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Ough

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Modal

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Guitar!

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Listened while dozing

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Hmm modal Parallelism

Elvis Presley

2/5

Cool to find tutti frutti here

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

Still love it

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Need to relisten

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

One of those super well known artists, that I never awarely listened to. Catchy for sure

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Still want to get into it more

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Not as dark as many others by Nick cave

2112

Rush

3/5

Adding to my adventure rock list

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Pretty good time ngl

Tracy Chapman

2/5

Somehow I like this record less with every listen, even though it has great songs

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Ah that Bayern 3 Sound. Not bad but much of the same?

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Need to get it in my head that this is not Gil Scott Heron

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Need to listen to note fka twigs

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Enjoy the jazz and funk bits most

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

R e s p e c t

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Actually more experimental than the original post punk sound had me think

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Cool pallette of sounds

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

4/5

can sound a bit samey on the surface but it's worth paying attention

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

That sounded thin

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Never heard of this before. Not sure where I stand on it yet

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Tough listen on a Monday morning, but cool to listen something from them other than the björk collab

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Just full of energy

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

That turns out not to be a concept album / children's TV series ost

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Interesting how Days That Used To Be sounds quite a bit like the all star live version of My Back Pages

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Some records test you

Joan Armatrading

4/5

The ones with a county twang I liked most!

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Always

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

A lot heavier than that dog barking track i know

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

My beloved

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

Did not do much for me, but can see it grow

Connected

Stereo MC's

1/5

Ough

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

Fairlight synth on a diy record?

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Göated

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

All tracks from Once In A Lifetime onward are crazy good

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Gives me Proto Gorillaz vibes

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Excellent album. The hill I am willing to die on is that it's not nearly as revolutionary an electronic album as the discourse around it is making it up to be

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Rhythmic force

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

Better than expected, turns out this band isn't so bad when not listening on a car radio or club speakers

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Psychy folky

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Solid but not more

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Yesss

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Bit too artsy for my taste

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Don't like it as much as I want to

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Easy to forget how good their songs are

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

Unhinged production

Pump

Aerosmith

1/5

This is like my least favorite music. Best track Dulcimer Stomp (without The Other Side)

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Need to listen to them more album based

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

On the fence whether this would become a 2 or 4 with repeated listens

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Special Relationship

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Know it for a long time, the synth parts are driving this thing forward

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Perfectly pleasant, just not sure what the combination of Frank and Antonio is so special to be included here

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Like the ones with a country twang, the rest are mid

Os Mutantes

3/5

who up osing they mutantes rn

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Fun but never loved it a lot

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Decent, catchy, but no instant hit

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

I can't really place this type of music.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Schmeckt

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Solid

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

good! still don't wrap my head entirely around what this band is about

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

really need to get into that shit

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Listens to that a bunch back in 2016 but then forgot about it

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Better than that glam rock one, but still nothing I would spend time with

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Rhythmically very cool, could have done with a few tracks less imo

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Classic I'm very aware off, but somehow isn't logged in my last.fm. probably listened at a friend's in vinyl

The United States Of America

4/5

Crazy sounds specked throughout

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

obviously funky, but wasn't too memorable upon first liste

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

not a bad song on it

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Finally some country

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

didn't know at all, and can't yet place it musically

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

I like the Umm, Oh Yeah Dearest sound much more than this

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Almost perfect

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Blown away by Danny Boy and the transition to Desperado

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

It good, always need to take time to take in the complex song structures

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

blown away by the album version of No Woman No Cry

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Never managed to get into it very well. Interesting to hear the much more hip hop sided sound compared to Mezzanine.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

4/5

Very helpful to not listen passively on moms car radio

Fever Ray

4/5

dark and near perfect to me.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

It slaps, but I might not ever get into this type of 90s hip hop much more

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

4/5

It good, listened while driving

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

not a good driving record, hard to hear anything. should revisit elsewhere

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Iconic and a bit grating at times

Paul Simon

3/5

Mellow

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Some tracks recklessly unhinged (which I like) others stir my dislike for rockabilly/psychobilly (which the monks obviously predate)

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

(perhaps obviously) really good, but I always feel I'm not American enough to really get it

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

2/5

Love I Think We Are Going To Be Friends but the test doesn't do much for me

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

an album you enjoy without remembering a single track

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

used to listen to them a lot!

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Foxy

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Very cohesive. Feels like one continuous rave. But hard to remember individual tracks

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

freaky indeedy

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

My fav Santana, doesn't feel to work out and cool album art

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

No idea what the goal of this keyboard orchestra is

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Nails the atmosphere, funny as heck, and the jazz so smooth

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

First time I actually get this record and really good. Fuck Kanye anyway.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Synth whistles frying my brain and I'm here for it. This one also has the tracks a mere casual like me recognizes.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

The right mix of pop and psych

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

This is it

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

I see they are a decent rockband. What makes this stand out?

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

What else can be said?

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

I'm not sure I get what this is trying to do, but I liked a few individual tracks

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

This feels a lot less like a circus compared to schools out

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Strong throughout

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

really aching for country and this was really good

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

good - wanted to get more into this OKC band more for a while

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Love the slow ones and the fast ones. Love the synth and Foley sounds swirling in, love the bass playing, love the drum sound

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Good listening to the album, I think most of plays come from hell freezes over

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

reggae infused punk full of hooks

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Super strong sunny stroll album when you're not sure yet what kind of day it will be

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

super powerful, amazing backup vocals, great reverbs

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

all sounds kinda the same to me

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

have to admit I mostly liked the more conventional tracks on this. Imagine this would be a ton of fun life though

The Joshua Tree

3/5

gotta say this is starting to work better for me

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

I somehow always find this music pretty dorky and lacking a cool factor. music isn't bad.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

I think this is quite well regarded. To me this production never really works, feels like a collage of layers more than a track often. Probably I am missing some musical context.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

guess I wasn't there

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

The low points are still extremely good

Femi Kuti

2/5

make my head bob, even though I find not too much I like in this

The Downward Spiral