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Album	You	Global	Diff
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	5	2.83	+2.17
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	5	2.84	+2.16
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.34	+1.66
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.34	+1.66
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	5	3.36	+1.64
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Green R.E.M.	5	3.47	+1.53
Ramones Ramones	5	3.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.38	-2.38
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.32	-2.32
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	1	3.2	-2.2
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	1	3.2	-2.2
At Budokan Cheap Trick	1	3.1	-2.1
The Rise & Fall Madness	1	3.04	-2.04
Pelican West Haircut 100	1	2.97	-1.97
Ingenue k.d. lang	1	2.95	-1.95
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	1	2.88	-1.88
Destroy Rock & Roll Mylo	1	2.88	-1.88

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Artist	Albums	Average
U2	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Scott Walker	2	1
Leonard Cohen	2	1
Fiona Apple	2	1.5

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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

A childhood favourite, kinda dated at times but anthems like Kids Are Alright and My Generation have withstood the test of time.

Elvis Presley

4/5

One of the Three Kings of Rock and Roll.. along with Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed. Some tunes I never heard before that took me to a rockabilly joint downtown where the cats are cool and the chicks are hip.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Wicked, love the Stones but especially this era... UK version seems to be a bit better than the North American release

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Not really my cup of tea, however it had some good hooks.

Metallica

4/5

I've spent the greater part of my adult life chasing bands with pedal steel guitars, fiddler and banjos... sadly depriving myself of heavier music like this. Gotta listen to Metallica more often. Much more often.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

I liked this offering from PJ Harvey, kinda' missed her years ago. Jangle folk... i need to hear more, definitely going into regular rotation.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Mellow, pre-disco Bee Gees. Great harmonies.

Boston

4/5

Summer of '76... this album turned the heads of many kids my age. Rick and Roll genius at the time, a little age-worn today.. but a classic nonetheless.

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

Sounds too much like Harry Chapin or Neil Diamond. I know people who might like this but its not in my wheelhouse.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Couple good ones here. Black Tambourine especially.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Cindi Lauper? A poster child for the music that I despised in the 80's. I'll give it a listen to see if time has changed my mind. Well.. the first song... was a surprise. Money Changes Everything is just a good damn song. The rest included some nostalgia for the mid 1980's but overall, still not a fan but not a hater either.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Finally some country music to play. Reminds me of 1970's small towns and AM radio. Love it before listening 12 songs about heartbreak, loneliness, love, alcohol abuse and marital problems. One of the saddest albums I've heard lately.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Another blockbuster from 1976.. except I disliked it back then. Several songs were massive hits on mainstream radio so I skipped them as much as possible. 50 years later, I didn't mind it all. Maybe not in rotation but not something to be ignored. Very good songwriting, musicianship incredible.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Not first thing on a Monday morning... nope. After lunch music. Classic album from my youth... there's still a couple songs in regular rotation in fact.

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

It's ok.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Wow... noise and stuff. Im gonna give it a 2 for making me think a bit more than I normally do when listening to music. Like.. what is that sound? A beer bottle rolling across pavement?

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

Both kinds of music.. Rock and Roll! Another album from the early days of my journey.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

1/5

Its ok

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

Guided by voices... alot of singing which wasnt that bad but not something im gonna put on repeat.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Yes! One of the recordings that kick started a generation.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Great voice! I liked the country stuff the most, never been a fan of easy listening.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Rolling Stone's best Christmas album of all time... I love Spectors Wall of Sound take on these Christmas classics. Especially the Ronettes' songs.

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Very good!

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

Noise... deliberately made. Something cool i guess but a long way from my taste.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Classic... early rock and roll. Ain't That A Shame is one of the best songs ever.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Another album from my misspent youth. Many hours were passed listening to T-Rex... great to take a deeper dive into tracks that seldom see the light of day. Guitars, guitars, guitars.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

I like shoe-gazing, this one was good enough to add to the rotation.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Not a fan of hip hop but this record goes a long way towards changing that attitude.

Tracy Chapman

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Love Green Day, always have, probably always will. A modern masterpiece... urban decay... physical and mental set to a snotty, scorching punk rock beat.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Yeah, liked this one alot. Further investigation required.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Where was I in '78? Still hadn't left the bosom of CanRock and 1970's FM Radio result being, I missed a ton of music! Like Big Star... the album is spectacular at times then disjointed at others, still sounds good 47 years later. My young self would appreciate older me listening to this band more often.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Classic southern rock from the '70's. Part of the soundtrack of my life.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

The Beatles... what else can be said?

Live Through This

Hole

2/5

Yeah its ok

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

I heard this record when I was 14... I knew right then that Jimi Hendrix was someone to be admired. Fast forwarding 50 years, im still inspired when I hear it.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

Pretty bad.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

OMG... Booker, Steve, Don... instrumental magnificence.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Post punk aint too bad

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

An amazing record... been on rotation since its release... best LIVE show ever.

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Don't need to comment. This ones a 5 too!

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Never heard of this band so it took my surprise. Wicked rock and roll.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

This record definitely has a time and place...

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Yeah this is heavy.

The Stone Roses

5/5

5/5... Such a great record. This has been a favourite for many lifetimes.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

I wanted to like this one, I really did. Not as though I've never heard of the Kinks, this record is on a few lists of seminal rock records. Not to my taste sadly.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

What a surprise, older me liked this immediately... younger me standing off to the side, petulant look on his face. I am adding this one to rotation. Great sound, studio band sounds terrific of course, but Aimee's vocals are spot on for the most part and the songwriting is decent enough.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Whoa! Class of Classic Rock Volume 1!!!

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

I liked his earlier stuff better, but there were a couple good songs.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Rock and Roll from the late 80's Take with a shot of whiskey and chase with a grain of salt.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Yeah... very cool. I liked this one.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

1/5

Hmmm..thought I liked ska music.. but it must have been another band.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Great vocal range

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

1/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Ramones

5/5

Yeah, so good I listened twice!

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Excellent... the album that propelled a generation and influenced at least one more.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

1/5

Mmm nope. Not my cuppa'

The Cars

4/5

Let the good times roll... a classic.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

I was listening to this one in high school in the late 1970's . A classic among classics.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

It's ok

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

When a guy who's spent his life as a successful, professional musician tells you to check out a band, you do. Dallas Good from The Sadies told me to check this band out but specifically the work of Roky Erickson.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

Country and Western music? Hmm. Volume 2 got sort of close but not really.

Joan Baez

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

I wanted to like this... but didn't.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

4/5

I liked this one so much I downloaded it... missed it the first time around.

The United States Of America

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Ok, not his best in my opinion but his work with Crazy Horse is more to my liking.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

5/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Like fine wine, gets better with age.

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Where was I that I missed this band in the '90's? Wicked album with so many good if not classic songs?

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

2/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

System Of A Down

2/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Yeah, this IS good.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

First time I've given this a chance despite how good they tell me it is. Its ok.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Liked it then, love it now.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

1/5

The first Scott Walker record on this list didn't impress me much. I will pass on this one.

2112

Rush

3/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

1/5

Nope

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Yeah its good but not for me...

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

1/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

Heavy

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Jazzy jazz...

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

1/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

The queen of country music.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

1/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Quite alot of noise on their records, Sonic Youth needs to be seen live for best effect.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Excellent

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

1/5

On the radio but not on my stereo in the 80's. Still feel the same way.

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Dont need to add any notes, sonic bliss.. Both kinds of music... Rock AND Roll!

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

Just not that into jazz, obviously these cats are amazing musicians however.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Brilliant live set, this record was my first exposure to Deep Purple. When I finally got around to buying Machine Head, I was blown away.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Its ok... lol. Nah, its a classic.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Not his best by a wide margin but still has a couple of classics.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

A long time favourite ...

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

4/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

The 60's... I was there at the end but still too young to know anything. This was ok, they had good songs but the presentation of them gets lost in the era.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

Yeah I remember this one.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears