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Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Fragile Yes	5	3.32	+1.68
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
1984 Van Halen	5	3.49	+1.51
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.52	+1.48
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.62	+1.38
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	5	3.7	+1.3
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Da Capo Love	4	2.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	1	3.17	-2.17
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	1	3.12	-2.12
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	1	3.05	-2.05
The Grand Tour George Jones	1	2.79	-1.79
Bright Flight Silver Jews	1	2.68	-1.68
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	1	2.55	-1.55
Surfer Rosa Pixies	2	3.49	-1.49
Suicide Suicide	1	2.46	-1.46
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.29	-1.29

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Suicide

Suicide · 1 likes

1/5

Groundbreaking I'm sure but a brutal listen.

1-Star Albums (8)

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Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Typical new wave, nothing particularly ear-catching.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Never gave a proper listen after Graduation. All Of The Lights is an all time banger. Runaway pretty good as well.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Hard driving rock. Some catchy rocking tunes.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

All time all time. All bangers in their own way. CSNY is fucking awesome.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Nirvana without the depth of electric sound doesn't work as well for me as for some others.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Never knew this was very much an ode to P-Funk. Gs and Hustlers with the Bernard Wright sample is an all time banger.

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

Hard charging rap. Strong message. Not the best ear candy.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Solid, no real bangers.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Quite a few songs with steady radio play growing up. Never really understood this band all the songs really seem to blend together. La Grange is my favorite ZZ Top song and unfortunately not on this album.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

Meh.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Had never heard of this band. Unique sound, decent background music.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

Very off the beaten trail for me but a good head nod.

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

So many very familiar songs and sampled beats.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Southern Man is an all timer. Classic singer songwriter album. Cripple Creek Ferry is a 90 second sleeper.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Meh I understand it was groundbreaking for the time but other than I Can See For Miles there's just nothing good here.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Can see the groundbreaking nature of it but not melodic enough house for me.

Suicide

1/5

Groundbreaking I'm sure but a brutal listen.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Banger after banger. Cover to cover classic.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Chill and soulful but never really gets out of 1st gear.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

1/5

Lyrics and no musical quality.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

So many Christmas classics. Didn't know these were the versions that got played so often on radio.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

A few lesser songs, but I love The Strokes. Someday, Last Night, Hard to Explain all bangers. Some repetitiveness to the songs.

Fragile

Yes

5/5

A prog rock classic.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Generic pop.

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Iconic opener. Chill upbeat background music besides.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Decent sound and progressive I'm sure for the time but very repetitive and nothing more than background music.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Lots of radio classics here.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Some classics from my youth but a mixed bag as an album.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

Grime genre doesn't work for me. No sound all lyrics.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Musically significant with a decent but repetitive sound.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

1/5

Brutal listen.

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

A modern classic. Hit after hit.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Everything In It's Right Place and Idioteque are classics with a bit of non-descript filler in between.

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Pretty good! Didn't know anything from Love previously. Jammy psych rock.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Very very 80s. Almost so much so it's a joke. Some decent songs but mostly just lyrics heavy.

Pretenders

3/5

No "Back on the Chain Gang," but not knowing much about the band besides that seemed a solid effort.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Jazz that's a bit too low tempo for me to love it but definitely good background music.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Classic singer songwriter. Slightly on the soft end for my personal preference though I love "Feeling Groovy"

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

More classic singer/songwriter. "American Pie" and "Vincent" both all-timers. Bit of filler besides.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Bland singer/songwriter.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

1/5

Really tough listen. Slow, folky, boring.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

"Where is my mind?" is a standout. Everything else? Not so much.

Blur

2/5

One classic that was everywhere at the time and relatively nondescript besides.

Roxy Music

4/5

Pretty good! Can hear alot of early progish sounds of the time throughout the album. Bowie like sound to a lot of it as well. Had only ever heard the name Roxy Music but didn't know the music well.

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

Never heard of this group. Pretty good can hear early prog/synth influences along with British New Wave.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Hard charging classic rock.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

All time classic. Hit after hit with a few sleepers in between.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Chill background folk singer/songwriter.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Pretty generic background house/electronic music.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Games Without Frontiers a true classic. And Through the Wire a nice find. A good listen besides.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Woof.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Very soulful.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Solid headnod.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

Every song quite similar sounding. Lyrically strong but musically repetitive.

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

The Kinks

3/5

Really catchy opener with Victoria. Pretty standard besides.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Very offbeat. Love the exploratory synth.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Only offhandedly had ever heard of Jeff Buckley. Great voice and solid rhythm to a lot of these songs. A pleasant surprise I would listen to further.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Reggae classic. Smokes on the beach.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Decently catchy. Can see the early trends on display here.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Only knew "Running Up That Hill" previously but didn't hear any of the same catchiness in this one.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Some decent toetapping music.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Trippy vibes.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Never gave Iron Maiden a thorough listen but knew quite a bit from this album. Catchy and hard charging metal.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

1/5

Not my genre.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Bland and unremarkable.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Iconic album, but doesn't rise to a higher level.

War

4/5

Out of the gate with some bangers. Tails off a bit towards the end.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Nothing particularly noteworthy here by Bowie standards.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Frankie baby at his best.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Come's out of the gate with some killer jams. Tails off a bit at the end but P-Funk always hits the spot.

808 State

2/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Great album. Really catchy take on a lot of classics. Very replayable.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Comes out with some bangers before tailing off at the end.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Hard charging rap but pretty repetitive to my ear.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Tolerable but not my genre.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Love me some Neil Young. Great vibe and very relistenable, but no true standouts.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

High highs with War Pigs and Iron Man and a softer side of Black Sabbath I didn't know of.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

Drum and bass not really my thing but after giving it a chance wasn't a terrible listen. Can appreciate the groundbreaking nature of the work and inspiration for future genres.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Groundbreaking I'm sure but nothing very much out of the ordinary to my modern.