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Album	You	Global	Diff
The United States Of America The United States Of America	4	2.6	+1.4
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.61	+1.39
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36
What's That Noise? Coldcut	4	2.78	+1.22
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blur Blur	1	3.33	-2.33
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	2	3.91	-1.91
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	1	2.9	-1.9
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.9	-1.9
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	1	2.88	-1.88
In Rainbows Radiohead	2	3.85	-1.85
Remedy Basement Jaxx	1	2.68	-1.68
Born To Be With You Dion	1	2.62	-1.62
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45
Third Soft Machine	1	2.44	-1.44

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All Ratings

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Tracks 1 -4: Damn David Bowie had the sauce Track 5: 60s pop slop :(

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Didn't like it, mostly get what its doing. Sorry folks 2.5/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

I can see how this evolved into really good music, but this... is not quite that. I can see it absolutely melting the minds (complimentary) of teenagers in the 70s though! To me, today, this sounds like someone looped 15 seconds of a song for 38 minutes.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Overall, very solid album, lacking in its "arc". Many songs are somewhat same-y. When it hits it hits, and it rarely misses, never catastrophically. (3.5/5)

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Wow, I have no words. Mind blown... Incredible album

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

1/5

Incredibly dull... 1.5/5

The United States Of America

4/5

This album is... really good, I think if you don't like it you're probably just lame?

Stephen Stills

3/5

Stephen Stills' self titled album is... fine? There are tracks that are incredibly strong ("Love the One You're With," and "Black Queen"), and some that I found incredibly drab (I am not a fan of gospel music), the net result is that this averages out into an average album. Stills is FAR from untalented, but his showing here has just furthered my belief that Neil Young is the strongest member of Crosby Stills Nash & Young 3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Blur

1/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

4.5/5 this album is incredible, near perfect

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

This is these songs at their best, but they’re still Christmas songs. I don’t really want to hear them, even on Christmas

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Not personally wild about the "Big Band" swing but this has some good stuff

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

Amazing composition, but Lou Reed is not known for his vocals. Luckily, I am notorious for loving bad singers so in many ways this album was made for me.

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

First album I googled while listening because I needed to know if the production quality was supposed to be this bad (and whadayaknow, good 'ol phil himself produced it!). I love Dion and the Belmonts, this is not that.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Really didn’t think I was going to like this but it goes pretty hard lol 3.5/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

This album is so good. So close to 5/5, but many of the tracks have such a similar flow that they often blend together. I cant believe this made it onto a list as British (derogatory) as this one 4.5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

When I saw today's album was RHCP I audibly groaned. I thought that I genuinely hated them, turns out I was only half right. Not to be that guy, but as a bass player, Flea is one of the greats, I truly think that I only rate this album as high as I do because of him. Anthony Kiedis' rock/rap vocal style is so grating and corny. It sounds like if the Beastie Boys took themselves too seriously. The worst part is that there is a good (more "traditional") 90's/00's alt rock band in here (led by their strong instrumentals, see the title track). Good news is there is enough of it that this album is re-listenable!

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Electronic music is so hit or miss for me. Largely, this sounds like a boring score to a boring movie, you know, a movie you can't really bring yourself to pay attention to, and the music just sort of drones... Anyway, its not offensive just not great. "The Rough and the Quick" is hilarious, and (actually really listenable) though! 2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

This is really good. Ellington is clearly one of the greats for a reason, and as a burgeoning jazz fan, I found this incredibly listenable and engaging. Its production quality is absolutely abysmal. Obviously, its a live recording from 1956, its not going to be good, so why not also record it in a studio? I don't think we benefit from the crowd noise and we lose so much in the poor audio quality. Really good, but falters in its production. 3.5/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Its 7:30 AM, time for your british electro-slop!!!! - Robert Dimery This album is so boring

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Really solid funky album! 3.5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

I don't know much about The White Stripes. This album feels a lot like (proto?) incel-rock. That being said, I have a soft spot for the low fidelity garage rock vibes. I really enjoy the more folk-rock tracks (e.g. Hotel Yorba, We Are Going to Be Friends), they were delightfully unexpected interstices in what is often a slightly boring album.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Pretty forgettable rock, some of it was fine, some of it was nearly Nickelback :(

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Holy shit, something thats ~almost~ *country???* on this list???? LETS GOOO Its good, not great but good. 3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

I really like how the tracks in this *drive* forward, matching with Brel's sharp plosives and the natural sound of the french language. It fails in the way many (most?) live albums do, its production quality is poor, it was clearly not recorded in a studio and it doesn't do anything interesting by virtue of being recorded live. I also feel like this would hit way harder if I knew what he was saying. Overall, Im pleasantly surprised, when I saw it was french-pop this morning i audibly groaned. Happy to be mostly proven wrong (and a little pig-headed)!

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Where has Nina Simone been all my life. This is incredible, beautiful composition backing Simone's gorgeous Vocals. With lyrical depth to boot! Im normally not a fan of compilations, I feel that albums need an "arc" that arises from an album being planned. This may be the one of the two exceptions to that rule of mine that I know of. This is really good stuff 5/5 (only my second one)!!!

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

STEVIE WONDER LETS GOOOOOO!!!! TWO HEATERS IN A ROW!!!! He unequivocally has the sauce, there's really no denying it. After so, so, so much Br*tish *slop* these past two days have been a breath of fresh air.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

I have very little exposure to Reggae, I didnt hate this but it sort of feels like someone took all of the parts of jazz that a lot of people dislike, and that (in my opinion) make jazz interesting). It is in many ways *super* palpable, But its also really boring. Proof that ideological agreement (I hate Margaret Thatcher too) != enjoyment 2/5

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

In my rating I fall victim to only listening to an album once. The production is obviously amazing, I would need some time to get used to Björk's vocals. Looking forward to her other work on this list, we'll see if exposure makes me rate her higher.