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Album	You	Global	Diff
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	5	2.56	+2.44
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	5	2.7	+2.3
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	5	3	+2
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.42	+1.58
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.63	+1.37
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	5	3.64	+1.36
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.64	+1.36

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moondance Van Morrison	1	3.7	-2.7
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	1	3.2	-2.2
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	1	3.03	-2.03
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.65	-1.65
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	2	3.47	-1.47
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	2	3.32	-1.32
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	2	3.29	-1.29
Made In Japan Deep Purple	2	3.29	-1.29

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Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1 likes

5/5

this is real music to me. meaningful lyrics about the human condition paired with tunes that don’t need to try so hard to impress you; nor is it about the artist and what you’ll think of them once the song is over. will always be 5 stars for me.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company · 1 likes

5/5

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Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

insane! was assuming it’d be more transient free jazz, but this is almost orchestral, with just a bit more intentional cacophony. the latin sounding guitar solos were a delightful surprise. didn’t realize how much i didn’t know about this artist, but had assumed it based on a few songs.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

great album, knew all the words

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Vibrant, fun, with that classic keyboard sounds like the break in Water Got No Enemy. Great to take some time to hear the This album made me realize how much more American rock there is than anything else, which got me upset. Zamrock is right there! Afro beats alone is too vast to reduce to Fela, no matter how iconic. How many U2 albums are on this???? And what is there to show for all of Africa??? Not enough of the good shit!

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Very solid. Great lyrics and bursting harmonies. I tried to think that they were overrated in their earlier days, but I undeniably get it. Better to be in on it than be a hater

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Every time they sang it made it worse. Talented guitarists for sure, but it’s not my thing.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Never heard a bad song by him. Great start to my day, but then I did listen to Low, and I just prefer other albums more. He set his own bar too high!

Moondance

Van Morrison

1/5

Could have died without listening to this again. Very whiny and repetitive. Wah wah, wah wah, wah wah wah

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Yep Yep Yep Yep

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

5/5

Was lucky to hear about this just a few months before it was suggested. Brilliant musically. The lyrical progressions are very original, yet feel timeless with such ancient roots of what singing once was. Have already listened to it again ;)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Great voice; ok lyrics

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

very good

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

1/5

I didn’t enjoy this

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

I wanted to give this 3 stars soooo badly but it’s seriously banger after banger

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

As a feminist, it deserves less than what I gave it. However, the guitar slaps. Musically gifted for sure.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

while i was listening to the album, i was probably sitting next to some of the most fried people on the train that i’d seen for a long time. with this album on, i didn’t care too much. it starts out strong and keeps it up. yelling? no match for this — even on medium-range volume, i wasn’t too worried about what was going on. this was a great pre-punk album. the lyrics hold against the test of time and the musicians are talented and inventive with their use of tempo. the range of loudness to silence was well-executed.

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Not a huge fan. I definitely got more into the songs as the album progressed

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

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Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

i listened to this when it came out, and was disappointed off the high of pure heroine. revisiting it, i was much more appreciative of the intentionality of the additional production compared to her first album. the lyrics were hitting this time — maybe i’ve matured. pretty sure i forgave myself for feeling a way about all of my past boyfriends.

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

my girl is so interesting!! sound over voice but she works with it!!

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

this was fine 50 years later. i can get the cultural influence at the time. it’s just funny that genre blending has become so normal now

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

I liked it. I even listened to it twice in a row to debate the 4 versus the 5. Having heard Jesus, Etc. prior to the rest of the album, the rest of the songs were definitely a pleasant surprise. The sounds of Radiohead and Elliott Smith dominated my impression of the album—hence the 4 stars, because I do like them! In the end, it was difficult to determine the answer to “who is Wilco?” Although, whoever they do want to be, they can absolutely do it well.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

5/5

i liked it a lot! MF DOOM handed him the torch. great all around

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

4 for marvin standards. i have loved funky space reincarnation since my late teens.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

this is a-okay! is it a perfect album for me? no! that’s ok computer!

Debut

Björk

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

1/5

Did not enjoy this. I feel like a Daniel Johnston album could easily replace this—both are awkward indie vocalists with deeper lyrics.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

facts billy but perhaps you are a songwriter and not a singer

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Mid! But crucial to the Silence of the Lambs

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

“I once had a life, or rather, life had me” will absolutely be written on my gravestone, if I were to die.

Joanna Newsom

4/5

i didn’t get the niche hype before, but wow! she’s like the witch sister of bjork. not sure if i would listen to her music all of the time, but it hits a symphonic and beautiful spot in my lady heart that im sure ill be back for more

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

5/5

holy shit was i missing out!! the tightest album ive ever heard. not a note out of place. hearing each song after the other was so exciting and refreshing. wish it was longer tbh

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

I get the vibes and the timeliness, but sometimes it really boils down to a Brit being sad over cheery guitar track

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

This whole album was solid! I recognized Alright instantly (didn’t realize how old it was), but then I started to fear that this was a one hit wonder album. Turns out that’s not the case.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

Better than the other Deep Purple album. Did we need two on this list?? Probably not. Glad this band means something to somebody else

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Rather pleasant; minimal misogyny.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

RIP to a legend but I just don’t feel millennials rock music in my soul