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Album	You	Global	Diff
Medúlla Björk	5	2.73	+2.27
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	4	1.93	+2.07
Maxinquaye Tricky	5	3.04	+1.96
Traffic Traffic	5	3.07	+1.93
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.28	+1.72
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	5	3.35	+1.65
Opus Dei Laibach	4	2.39	+1.61
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.43	+1.57

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	1	3.44	-2.44
Synchronicity The Police	1	3.41	-2.41
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	1	3.38	-2.38
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	1	3.07	-2.07
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	1	2.95	-1.95
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon	1	2.94	-1.94
Destroyer KISS	1	2.85	-1.85
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) Lynyrd Skynyrd	2	3.74	-1.74
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.72	-1.72
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	1	2.72	-1.72

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The Healer

John Lee Hooker · 3 likes

3/5

Why this one? This is not really a John Lee Hooker record. It's a bunch of other stars playing a collab. Sure, it charted. I'm very glad he got commercial success with it. That shouldn't be why this was chosen over his previous 40+ years of output. Pick any of his records from the 1960s.

Young Americans

David Bowie · 1 likes

4/5

Great musicianship, groove, and vibe. Funky musicians make funky music. Each song is unique but the record is still cohesive.

Destroyer

KISS · 1 likes

1/5

I did not need to listen to this before I die.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes · 1 likes

1/5

As much as I tried, I could not find one song I want to hear again.

Pretenders

Pretenders · 1 likes

5/5

Precious is one of my favorite songs. I saw Chrissie Hynde in concert. There were some extremely obnoxious people behind us that yapped loudly over the whole show, as they weren't actually interested in the concert. But in between every song they would screech "BRASS IN POCKET!!!! BRASS IN POCKET!!!!" Because clearly that was the only Pretenders song they knew, and the only thing they came to hear. Well guess what. They never played Brass In Pocket. For the encore they played the song I wanted to hear, because I'm precious. Fuck Off.

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All Ratings

The Joshua Tree

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

It's ...a pop Christmas album.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Great musicianship, groove, and vibe. Funky musicians make funky music. Each song is unique but the record is still cohesive.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

I have always loved Thin Lizzy dueling guitar solos, and this record doesn't disappoint in that respect. 🎸🎸 The guitar jams get 10/10. This band was at its best when Brian Robertson was in it. Thin Lizzy is rad. Live recordings, however, are not always rad. Drums sound thin and far away on many tracks. The drum solo on Sha-La-La sounds like he is inside a tube. Phil's mic on Are You Ready sounds like garbage. And the overall recording quality varies from track to track. I'm not sure anyone enjoys listening to crowds that are not clapping in time. The dubbed-in crowd cheers are unnecessarily loud.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

I'll take a little Motown any day. Is Puzzle People on this list? I like that one more than this one.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

1/5

As much as I tried, I could not find one song I want to hear again.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

This thing is brilliant. Orange!

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Why is this here? There are already four other The Who records on this list ...

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

There is so much joy emanating from this record.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

John McLaughlin is an otherworldly guitar player (someone neglected to include Mahavishnu Orchestra on this list...). Bass clarinet is a super cool choice for the ensemble. This is a weird, experimental trance fusion jam session.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

11 minute I Heard It Through The Grapevine jam 🔥

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

He danced himself out the womb, ya hear?

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Cover Me has some nice blues guitar. Other than that there's not much here that's for me.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

4/5

This is an avante garde industrial art installation. Interesting textures, harsh sounds, hypnotic thuds, bare vocals, unsettling vibes. I hear the foundations of so much industrial music in this noise. Pretty neat.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

I never much liked Karma Chameleon. Still don't. But there are a couple good songs on this record. Not really a fan of ballads either. Shout out to Helen Terry on vocals.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Hell yeah.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

1/5

🎶 Bring on something else, I couldn't stand another hour of Sting's voice 🎶

Ananda Shankar

2/5

60s, with some added 60s and then a sprinkle of 60s on top.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Not everything on here has aged well. It is quite the time capsule. Express Yourself is still 🔥 tho

Maxinquaye

Tricky

5/5

Martina ❤️ Alison Goldfrapp ❤️ Tricky ❤️ Trip hop ❤️

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Marching bands would have fun with many of these tracks. Not totally sure why an album of covers on bongo would be on this list, beyond the Apache breakbeat. But here it is.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

This is pretty great

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

This record makes me want to do zoomies around the house.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Meh

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Good shit.

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

I listened to this when it first came out, but not much since then. Listening to it now, I expected to have more nostalgia than I did. Instead I was just bored. I think their other early record is better than this one.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Never heard anything from this band before. Sounds like Duran Duran. It's alright. Fretless is always nice. Alien is the track I like best, bass and drum parts in particular.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

I love this album so very much

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Tony Thompson 😎 Bernard Edwards 😎 This group was a friggin supergroup of musicians. Also, the production on this album is top drawer, as is everything Nile Rodgers touches. The people in this group were far, far more influential, across multiple genres, than maybe some people realize.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

I mean, it's a well-crafted pop record, executed by talented people. There is a lot more creativity here than in most of the chart-topping pop out there right now. With that being said, this is not really my jam.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Step right up.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Like a warm embrace

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Moog bass is friggin rad

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

Destroyer

KISS

1/5

I did not need to listen to this before I die.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

This record is kind of all over the place. There is a lot of interesting instrumentation in here, but I didn't always dig what they did with it. Girls & Boys and London Loves are the songs I like best.

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

I had never heard of this band. Now I have. The Funny Bird is my pick from this album

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Dub-y and chill. Such an early 90s feel. Carnt Sleep, Girl VII, Spring are the songs I like best.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

This band is off the charts excellent. Groove 🔥 Harmony 🔥 Pocket 🔥 Arrangement 🔥

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Let's try and unsee this album cover Of all the britpop this list has force fed me of late, this one I think I prefer best. Sofa (Of My Lethargy) is my pick from this one. I hear Beatles and Traffic influences in it.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

I definitely think these guys listened to Bob Mould. I mean, this is a very good record, in spite of the cover. But I think I would have liked it more 25 years ago. This list has given me a whole bunch of fuzzy 90s britpop and alt rock all grouped together, and I am realizing that a lot of it just doesn't do much for me right now.

California

American Music Club

2/5

At different moments this reminded me of Bruce Springsteen, Gin Blossoms, and Counting Crows. Ugh. I mean, this sounds like a random band you might find at an open mic night in a medium-sized town in California. I didn't know that was the criteria for this list.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

This is many things.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

More fuzzed 90s UK indie. 7 of the last 10 albums fed to me in this list have been fuzzed 90s indie. I'm ready for something else, if the random album generator is listening.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

1/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

I ❤️ Stax Records

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

The piano steals the show on this one

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

4/5

I love the way the drums sound, and the bass is hypnotic goodness

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

This band has always sounded excessively dramatic to me.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Willie Colón died today. I'm going to interpret this selection as a purposeful tribute, not a coincidence.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

I'm not sure I've ever listened to Nick Cave before. I didn't mind it, but I'm not sure I'd seek out other records. There She Goes My Beautiful World is a 🔥song tho. I also liked O Children

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Classic. Penalty point deduction for reviving Aerosmith's career.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Not my favorite tenor sound...and oh my that spittle buzz. That's very distracting. Not what I expected when clicking on a jazz record from 1986. Sounds more 1950s, in both vibe and recording quality. I've been obsessed of late with Paquito D'Rivera Live at Keystone Korner (1982). This is not that. I really can't get past the sustained, spittle-infused notes.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Didn't hate it, but also definitely didn't like it

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

The Chain is a 5. Rest of album is 3 for me.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

I fully understand why this album is on this list, and how important it was. I also don't want to listen to it again.

Van Halen

4/5

David Lee Roth is a weird alien, but this album is very good. EVH is EVH. Also, I feel like DLR is channeling Burton Cummings a bit in Little Dreamer. I want to give a point deduction for spawning a decade of bullshit hair metal, but I won't.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

His voice is easy on the ears

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Side 2 was really cool At various points on the album I was reminded of Roxy Music, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, Dead Can Dance, and XTC.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

I have always loved The Mamas and the Papas. Mama Cass can sing me anything she wants. Oddly enough, my two favorite M&P songs are not on this album. Wtf is with The Mama's and the Papa's tho. Good god. I can barely bring myself to type it.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. -Wilfred Owen

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

Now, this album has 13 songs. Spotify states 13 songs. But only 9 appear. I did find the DK cover on another EP (which was awesome btw). I liked this album. Definite Gil Scott-Heron vibes. This is from 1992. Is the message relevant today? Very much so.

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Steve Gadd is my absolute friggin' favorite. This record is full of legends. Chuck Rainey! Bernard Purdie! Larry Carlton! Victor Feldman, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, and on. Peg, this is one of the best sounding records ever. Headphones recommended. I can listen to the drum solo on Aja forever. Peg.

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Not really my thing

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

This is alright, but JR is a wanker. I feel like I might like it more if it wasn't him doing it

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

The lyrics leave something to be desired. The singing is great.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

1/5

That sound. Is that the jug? Uh, that is.... unceasing...incessant...relentless...constant... excessive. If I try to imagine this without the incessant vocalized bleepy bloops, it's 60s garage rock. Not really for me. With the jug, I definitely don't want to hear again.

Opus Dei

Laibach

4/5

Das spiel ist aus

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

For whatever reason, the sensation I have while listening to this is that I am standing in a very long, slowly moving queue.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

This is really good.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

This is just a really excellent record by a really excellent voice.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

For a few songs, I enjoyed the music and vocals. Lyrics not my favorite.

Gorillaz

5/5

I can very clearly remember listening to this record when it first came out, and loving how weird and different and exciting it was. And then having Del on tracks was like a bonus prize.

Traffic

5/5

I love Traffic all day every day

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

So, I mean, this album is fine, it's listenable. But I'm not sure why it is on this list. It is one popular late 90s alternate album, in a sea of popular late 90s alternative albums. Oh, that's right, by rule all 90s britpop is on the list.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

1/5

I mean, the mid 2000s were not completely devoid of quality music, but.... You didn't miss much if you slept through it.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

I liked a couple songs, for sure. But I'm not sure how often I'd come back to this, overall.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Bizarre album name, but this was really interesting. Some pretty wild jams. I hear a lot of Dream Theater on LTIA pt II. Can definitely see that this influenced them.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

We are all citizens of the universe and the party on the Mothership is for everyone.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

I really like Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. I had no idea they played on this record. This one is more listenable than the first Dylan album we got. I generally do not like narrative songs, and some of his stories were...long.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

This sounds both familiar and off-putting, like a musical uncanny valley. Really interesting experience, glad I listened to it

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

I enjoyed this.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

I bought this record when it came out. Still like it.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

I, for whatever reason, never got into this band at all. I don't think I can name one song by them, even though I've been aware of them basically my entire life. Upon listening, I like a lot of things about the music (I hear pleasant hints of Fugazi), but I don't think I like either vocalist.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

1/5

No, thank you.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Freddie is one of one. He had an exceptional, otherworldly vocal talent. Listening to him sing is always a special experience. Brian May is one of the best. This band put out a super unique, highly creative body of work. I never complain when a Queen song comes on the radio. With all that being said, I've never gone and put on Queen on my own. I've never owned any Queen records. I can't articulate any reason why I'm not more into them. I don't mind them at all. And that's about it.

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Never heard of this artist. I actually....didn't mind some of this. Cornbread Moon was alright. Steel guitar throughout was good. But I did mind a lot of this. I don't think I'd every seek it out to listen to it again. But if I was forced to choose between this or /insert other country album/, I'd choose this. Some of this sounds like it came out in 1989, not 1977. Like...Lyle Lovett or something. Also, I dunno what honky tonk is, and I don't think I need songs about it.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

I love Stan Getz, I love Jobim, I love bossa nova. If this had Chega de Saudade on it, it would be perfect.

War

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

5/5

I did not expect to like this as much as I did. This is amazing. What a sonic treat. This might be Björk vocals at their most beautiful. I had no idea Mike Patton appeared on a Björk album. But I am not at all surprised it's as part of an ensemble of vocal magicians doing weird and interesting things. This is another album that I think requires headphones for the full experience. Every sensory receptor in your ear holes will be stimulated.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Lyrically this alternates between goofy, dude lyrics, cats, and more serious subjects, all against complex meter and jazz chords. And inside a sleepy haze of weed. I don't know what else sounds like Thundercat. I mean, this has a jazz song about DBZ.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

For almost 40 years now, I've yet to hear something from this band I don't like. Hairshirt is to Green what Nightswimming is to Automatic For The People.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Pretenders

5/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

There is so much 90s alternative on this list. I feel like I listened to plenty of alt/indie/lo-fi/etc in the 90s, like everyone else. But there are so many alt rock bands on this list that, as best I can tell, I've never heard. Like this band. Does that mean it's not memorable? Unfair has moments that remind me of Heroin by Velvet Underground. The spacey garage version of Take Five was a strange detour inserted into the middle of the rest of this.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Love the sludgy, driving bass to back her raw energy. This I dig a lot. Also, cellos are always great.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

1/5

Music for dudes, bros, and dudebros.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Kate Bush is special

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

1/5

Things I don't like: the album title, the whole concept of the main character, porn sound bites, most of the weird lyrics, juvenile humor Things I like: how it sounds, his flow, some of the weird lyrics, Dan the Automator If I listen to this purely sonically, and pretend I don't understand words, I like it. But the lyrics are indeed there. Also, I absolutely refuse to listen to a song (by a dude) called 'A Visit to the Gynecologist' ...

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

The OG Chicago Blues Man. This is a party I wish I was at. The blues just make me feel better.

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

This album changed my world when it came out

Synchronicity

The Police

1/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

There are ...five Radiohead albums I like more than this one. Oh, and those other five also made this list. Do I like this record? Yep. Does it need to be here and take a slot that could be filled by an artist that should have been but wasn't represented on the list? Maybe not.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

2/5

This one was better than the other one

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

This is 100% fire 🔥 Is there any Chicago House in this list? Frankie Knuckles? Larry Heard? No? Can't have this without that.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

This whole thing about multiple, competing mixes of this album is very weird. I'm just sticking with the Iggy mix. They both have their problems. Oh! There's a celesta in this garage. Yep, I can see that this guitar sound influenced every punk guitar that came next.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

4/5

One of the greatest slide guitar players ever. Full stop. She damn sure belongs on this list. I would have picked Give It Up from 1971. Or maybe Songs from the Rainbow Room 1972. Her version of Angel From Montgomery is an absolutely perfect song. From this album, The Road's My Middle Name is my pick. I've seen her live four times. Excellent every time. Wait...is she the artist I've seen live the most? Maybe? Hmm, that never occurred to me until right now.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Is What's Going On the greatest album ever recorded? Yes, yes it is. Is What's Going On the greatest song ever recorded? Yes, yes it is. This is one of those albums where I am extremely frustrated I have to wait an entire day to give it its five stars. I have compiled 'desert island' album lists for 25+ years now (because lists of music are the best kind of lists), and this album has always been and will always be on my lists.

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

This sounds like pub karaoke jigs and anthems in detuned slow motion, and everyone is deep into their pints.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Man this hit me just right today

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

When I saw this, I let out an audible ugh. 1996 me became very tired of Odelay, and I do not care to hear about two turntables and a microphone ever again. Oh....Odelay is on this list too. Ugh. Anyways. This album surprised me. I only really liked one song (Paper Tiger), but overall I was not immediately irritated like I expected to be. There were a few other songs where I liked bits and pieces, but I realized I just don't really like his singing style. The production on this album is quite good, though.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

Britain's favorite folk singer, I guess. I feel like, for music like this, being of the time and place is an important part of the musical experience. But in terms of flavors of protest music, I prefer other flavors over the folky stuff. I get why it's here, but I don't want to listen to it again.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

'78-'83 is the Elvis Costello era I like. What's interesting tho is each album from this period is a mixed bag. Some great songs, some meh songs. There was a Best Of put out in 1985. That thing I played to death when I was a kid. My fav Elvis Costello songs are not on this record. The goodies from this one: The Beat, Pump It Up, Chelsea, Radio Radio, Lipstick Vogue, You Belong to Me

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Dolly is a treasure. Not sure how often I'd revisit this record, but it was absolutely a delightful listen. Dolly sings and she restores your faith in humanity, if even for a few moments. Songs from this one: Early Morning Breeze, Coat of Many Colors, My Blue Tears

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

I think I almost liked some things.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

This is tasty. Side 2 is a vibe.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

This album is....strange.