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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.31	+1.69
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.33	+1.67
Blunderbuss Jack White	5	3.39	+1.61
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.43	+1.57
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.46	+1.54
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.54	+1.46
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	4	2.73	+1.27
What's That Noise? Coldcut	4	2.77	+1.23

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	3.31	-1.31
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	3	4.14	-1.14
Devil Without A Cause Kid Rock	1	2.01	-1.01

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One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic · 1 likes

5/5

By far one of the most interesting sounding albums I’ve heard in my life. The entire album is full of musical easter eggs; I will be tuning into to this body of work for the rest of my life.

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No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Silver Raven, Strength of String, Some Misunderstanding, True One are my too songs. In the bottom are From a Silver Phial and Lady of the North. The first doesn’t particularly have an “it” factor for me. nice western/country/rock/ body of work. Great songwriting with hope and full of soul. Even the songs I didn’t care for were still great songs.

The Doors

4/5

The are popular for a reason, all were my tops songs off the album: The End, Light my Fire and Break on Through. Kinda spooky. Can’t imagine hearing this body of work when it came out for the first time. Could be fun at times, but also is quite dark, brilliant song writing sprinkled in.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

When I picture “Masculine Rock,” this is what I envision. It was fun and explosive, and the song blended into one another quite well. Sheik blew me away, it stood out among the rest.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I loved this album! I want to spend more time with this one for sure. For an alt rock album it was quite chill? Each song was cohesive but so unique without sounding all the same.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Band was in full swing, but I found the album a little plain. Boy was he sad.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

This was a really great live album. It is electric and full of The Who’s kooky personality as a band. The 8-minute rock opera was just sensational. They are simply a British folk band with the biggest speakers and electric guitars.

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Really enjoyed this one and it’s dark synth-alt pop makeup. Sub-culture was my top track which was followed by face-up, my least favorite track. The lyricism and poignant themes stuck out to me the most and connected me with album.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Though I deeply respect what they are trying to do I did not care for this album.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Fun album, but I was surprised for how dated some of the songs sounded in this listen. I listened to this as a kid a lot and obviously that is something I never picked up on. Dirty Diana is by far my top Michael Jackson song ever and I wish more of the album had this sound.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

I loved this album! I’m glad to have it on my radar and I think it is such an important listen in the current political climate. The themes of the album with the playful manner they were handled were outstanding.

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

This album was fine? It had some fun songs, but I think I would die happy without having heard it.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

This album sounds like George was just writing songs for his fave artists and then performing them.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

This felt like rock jazz, it was cool but also intolerable.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

I feel like the more you listen to this the better it will get—I also think if some of these songs were released as steely dan I would love them, so I will rate this with that in mind

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Excellent album, with some of the best christmas bangers ever!

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

A lot of great songs on here, but the composition overall takes the cake of what makes it special and really stuck out to me. Still had a couple skips.

Metallica

3/5

one note, but I enjoy it a lot, especially the drums!

The Undertones

3/5

Fine, just nothing that truly sucked me in.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

I had a lot of fun with this, I like punk that’s fun and not torture; i.e. public image

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

This is the best album i’ve ever heard, can’t believe I only knew Once in a Lifetime. David Byrne invented music and I stand by that

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

By far one of the most interesting sounding albums I’ve heard in my life. The entire album is full of musical easter eggs; I will be tuning into to this body of work for the rest of my life.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

This was the first female album I got! It was great tk listen to something new, and unique.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

This album was actually excellent; yt men serving a lot of cunt for the sake or art.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

this gives ANTM photoshoot music and i kinda love that.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Fun! I love how it is based in a nyc hip hop sound, despite fat bot slim being British. Really enjoyed you are not from Brighton.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

This one snuck up on me and I loved it! It was a really fun and unique take on hip hop that is the precursor to some amazing 20-teen hip hop fusion that I personally adore!

Eagles

4/5

not my fave band, but I did enjoy this album, a little repetitive at times and could be boring.

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

At first I thought why is this essential, and then then as the album I realized why. Regge punk is so cool and I had no idea it existed (probs for a rzn that is racism) but if this cane out today pitchfork would be ALL OVER IT. Def ahead of it’s time. Loved secret 77 the best.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Love a short album. In another world Frank Zappa plays dr. frankenfuter in rocky horror

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

he does not need to be here twice. No other was better. He didn’t grow as an artist to me, he kept at the same thing without diverging. Did not enjoy the daughter song, gave me the creeps! Let daughters be angry honestly!!

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

just nice!

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

somber and filled to the brim with lyrics. the instrumental composition was so alluring and it kept me in it, even when every song was about that one woman whose body was tea, but he couldn’t love her.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Fun, but a lot of noise.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

playful

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

super sexist at times, but super interesting sounds behind the rapping itself. I appreciate the way it committed to the bit like nobody’s buiz.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

looking between the sexism, homophobia and violence this album is quite good. A most fantastic writer!!! Do think he may have killed someone or is gay and dealing with a lot of internal homophobia. Beyond that there were interesting beats and the sound effects were a fun touch that kept me in songs when they got too wordy.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

At time the vocals tested me.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Liked this one more than I thought!

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

not sure what genre this is, but i found it interesting.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

I loved this album, classic punk that makes you think maybe communism would work, far too long but enjoyable!

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Lot’s of different tones—not one note as I thought it would be.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Not even close to their best album, but leads shows the blueprint of their musical growth and how far rock transforms through them as a band.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Everything about this album drew me in. Each song was just as memorable as the last. The kind of record you want to start from the too once you finished.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

I love that i have no clue what genre this is. I have never heard a more creative expression of music that never takes itself so seriously. Only one track I didn’t care and it is just because it wasn’t as creative as the rest, but still objectively good.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

pretty cool! a little long

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

i think i hated this

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

This was so much fun, and i love when punk is good, and silly.

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Not a single miss here

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Folky Smiths. Didn’t change my life but is the grandfather to “ho-hey” of the 2010s.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

love the smith’s but this one has some forgettable songs and some faves!

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

Performative male soundtrack of 2003.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

The xx

3/5

Blended really well, but at times that was its weaknesses; The songs were too in tune with one another it could be hard to tell when one began and one ended

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

fun! not my fave of theirs, but a solid album

Violent Femmes

4/5

Fun, and blister in the sun is by far the worst and least fun on the record!

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

This was fine, they are good but idk if they are good enough to go in here twice?

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Exactly what I expected

Pretenders

4/5

i love a leading punk lady and a bunch of dudes

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

This album had more rock undertones than I thought it would, no can really sing like her

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

There are so good songs here but overall pretty boring and didn’t transcend me

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Put her on the map but not her best! where is black out!!!!

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I just know she was an industry plant!!! A British lady tapping into the styling of black artists is a bit fishy!!! With that being said, there are some good songs, i would say two felt like they were genuine to dusty herself, the rest felt like a cosplay of American-Southern-Blackness.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

I know it’s over is the best smiths song, and i just adore this album, one of their best!

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

liked it, but found the ballads annoying

Infected

The The

3/5

Blur

3/5

Why not a different album, this is cool, but no their best!!

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Cool, his artistic vision I think only exists with yoko!!!

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Any album that toys with genre awakens me and draws me in!

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

4/5

alluring!

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

outrageous production, bring back album bits

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

this was gorgeous!

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

i love this album, but i just know frank hates it

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

please mr. dylan but the harmonica down, please, no one wants to get hurt.

I See You

The xx

4/5

this is THE xx album, the first on here does not even compare

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

was it fun? sure! sure it be on here? no! it is a beach boys style rock opera, and we let him get away with it because: say it with me, brian wilson invented music!

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

the intimacy of a man dying and recording an album

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock