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Album	You	Global	Diff
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.52	+1.48
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.52	+1.48
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.54	+1.46
Document R.E.M.	5	3.55	+1.45
So Much For The City The Thrills	4	2.81	+1.19
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	3.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Bill Callahan	1	3.02	-2.02
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.71	-1.71
Triangle The Beau Brummels	1	2.7	-1.7
Low David Bowie	2	3.54	-1.54
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	2	3.52	-1.52
American Gothic David Ackles	1	2.48	-1.48
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	2	3.39	-1.39
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	2	3.38	-1.38
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.36	-1.36
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	2	3.36	-1.36

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Truth And Soul

Fishbone · 1 likes

2/5

Funky college music grove - a little too one flavor for me tho.

1-Star Albums (4)

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Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

So - most songs sound very similar to their big hit, "Come On Eileen" but that's mostly do to the unique vocalization and instrumental makeup of the band. "Old" was different and I liked it.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Amazing that this is just three dudes! They have so much range and can create completely different vibes from song to song. I'd forgotten how much talent they have. Really enjoying this walk down memory lane.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

I can see the appeal, cool concept of a party in progress. Would probably like this a little more if I was sippin on gin and juice.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

Hard rocking and not very deep... but a good vibe overall. Spent many hours listening to this after it came out and remember getting pumped up by most of the songs. It hits different decades later. Less straight up rock, more posturing and pretentious. I can still sing along but don't feel much for it anymore.

1999

Prince

3/5

Prince is a genre unto himself... but I thought this album would hold up better than it did for me. Love the first two songs (1999 and Little Red Corvette) but couldn't really get into any others.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Never heard of this guy... really liking the vibe. Feels like a male Sade. Could see vibing to this again.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

I bopped along with every song and really enjoyed the simplicity of the lyrics and music. Hit me as a fun time the whole way through.

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Liked the club sound - not earth shattering but very consumable.

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Every song on this is iconic and defined R.E.M. as a band to pay attention to! This album got me through an entire summer.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Not as compelling as I thought this would be... I think they made a bigger impact with later albums.

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Smooth and perfect, just like the first time I heard it back in the day!

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Sublime - unpolished and often straying into performance art... but undeniably catchy and connecting in unexpected ways.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Really held up well - enjoyed almost all of it.

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

I had never heard of him before... I can see why he made an impact but I couldn't really get into his music.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

pretty solid sound and you can hear the roots of the song, Everybody wants to rule the world in these tunes.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Love Queen but never heard this album before - it's great.

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

Master song craft - and even when I didn't know the song... I knew the sound.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Ummm... not for me. Total crap.,

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Took be back to the fifties... an era I did not exist.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Excellent - had only heard two of these songs but they are all really intricate and so well crafted.

Boston

4/5

Almost every song was a hit - what a strong first album!

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Great groove - had heard of the artist but never heard the album.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Solid Frank - but nothing stands out

Cross

Justice

2/5

Techno - but with tons of repetition and found sound.

Low

David Bowie

2/5

A few cool moments, but really not Bowie's best.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Enjoyed the groove but felt a sense of sameness from song to song.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

Nice African groove - not really my thang tho

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Solid harmonies and guitar work - might actually try to play a few of these someday.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Loved it when I first heard it and still love it today - the sense of play and whimsy, combined with strong melody makes this the best Bowie album in my opinion.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Excellent funk

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Good Elton, but not great.

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Nice but not much grabbed me

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Hadn’t heard of them but liked it. Late eighties, early nineties indie sound with some solid writing. Could have easily played this in college radio at the time.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Solid 90s rock

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

My wife loves the Smiths, so I have heard all of these songs before, but had never listened to the album as a single experience. It's pretty good. I'm not into them but really liked the variety and innovation it shows.

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

Solid metal/rock... but not my thing anymore.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

So relaxed in the studio!

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

A little too laid back for me, but solid musicianship.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Solid Irish rock!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

What the hell is this. Experimental with kind of stream of conscience lyrics, pretty good musicianship.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

Funky college music grove - a little too one flavor for me tho.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Love the variety of songs and real soul in the music!

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Stevie is amazing!

The Clash

4/5

Pure punk!

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

1/5

What the hell - thought this was from a mighty wind!

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Not my fav, but I could appreciate the care, skill and precision of the intense playing.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Classic

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

A maverick in his time!

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Most of these tunes were hits - great overall.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Crooner meets old time music - kinda trite but good singer.

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Would totally have listened to this multiple times in college. Nice mix of acoustic and electric, kinda emo but it works for me.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Classic and almost perfect

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Pretty much a defining moment for the band

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Love me some early Elvis

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Had never heard this before - liked it

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Solid blues

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

Not my thing

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

So many hits on this album!

Medúlla

Björk

2/5

weird

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

2/5

Cars was about the only jam on this… but a few others were interesting

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Good music, but very misogynistic and juvenile… which sorta worked when I was 14, but not now.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Set the tone for a decade of rap!

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Liked the Caribbean groove

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Great songcraft - really liked the quickly sound design.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Pretty solid Elvis

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Not really my general mood

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Meh

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Excellent old schools westerns

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Love me some PJ Harvey!

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Good vibes - need to be in the mood to chill to really love it

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Never heard of them - great groove and songwriting

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Has a little appeal, but not much

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Not the best U2

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Classic Smiths

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Good Groove

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Adele

3/5

Adele is the real deal and can sing! I’m just not that into this music.

War

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Love this sound!

Le Tigre

3/5

Solid

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Almost as good as the Beatles

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

Nice mix of rockabilly and roots rock

Cypress Hill

2/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Great but not much variation in the vibe