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Album	You	Global	Diff
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Document R.E.M.	5	3.56	+1.44
Sex Packets Digital Underground	4	2.67	+1.33
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.8	-2.8
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	1	3.72	-2.72
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	2	3.7	-1.7
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	2	3.33	-1.33
Trio Dolly Parton	2	3.13	-1.13
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	2	3.09	-1.09

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Bad

Michael Jackson · 1 likes

1/5

More awful that I even thought it would be. Speed Demon followed by Liberian Girl killed any potential for a higher ranking than 1

4-Star Albums (8)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

1-Star Albums (2)

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Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Better than I expected but wouldn't purposefully listen to again. This would have been better without vocals. 2.4 Deserve place: No

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Some great songs but could have greatly benefited from being shorter. Still will listen to the singles but probably not the full album

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Decent album subtracted by harmonica

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

The best Pogues album, but still have a soft spot for Shane MacGowans The Snake

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

I knew of them at the time this came out, but never listened, though certainly would have liked then. Not my current thing, and probably wouldn't seek out again, but I can see why it is liked

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

I would have previously said Ooh La La was the better album but after listening to both back to back, I'll be gravitating more to this one now. Probably a 5 without Debris, but still a solid 4

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Such a classic. My copy doesn't have Watching The Detectives but adding that just makes it better

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

More of a 3.6, but rounded it up do to the highs of songs that were great. I don't think I had listened to the whole thing previously but knew quite a few of the songs. Just a little overlong

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

Definitely of its time, but updates the P-funk sound and is a lot of fun

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

More awful that I even thought it would be. Speed Demon followed by Liberian Girl killed any potential for a higher ranking than 1

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Don't see myself choosing to listen to the whole album again but there are definite songs I'd put on. Over long and would be much stronger at half the length, but King Kunta pushes it up from a 2 to 3 star.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

There are a lot of shows I regret not going to but Elliot Smith is one that I was on the fence on but drove the hour and half to a sold out show and was able to get tickets from someone who had extras for $25, which was a lot for a concert at the time. This is one of the Elliot Smith albums I tend to gravitate to, with the other being From A Basement On A Hill and an easy 5 star

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

This is the only Green Day album you need. This is one of the bands I was supposed to, but have never seen. They were the opening band at Lollapalooza in 1994, but the traffic on the way to West Virginia was so bad we got there late.

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

This album was my introduction to R.E.M. back in 1987 and every note is engrained. The whole album still holds up but that first side is as good as it gets, and I'll get back to revisiting all of my old R.E.M. albums

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

Couple of songs, specifically Wildflowers, Rosewood Casket, and Pain of Loving You were decent. The problem with the rest of the album is the 80's overproduction.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Decided on 4 stars because there are probably 5 or 6 better Radiohead albums, one of which isn't on this list, and I could stand to be a song or two shorter

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

This is one of those bands where the major label albums better than the early indie albums. Where You Been and Green Mind are their apex (both of which would likely get 5's). I like Dinosaur Jr but this is not the album I come back to. I'm not sure if I've listened to it in at least 15 years but was glad to revisit Kracked Also, they are in close competition to Jesus and Mary Chain for the loudest band I've ever seen live

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Couple of classic songs that deserve the praise but a the rest doesn't grab my attention. Owned the album for probably 30 years and listened to it a maybe a handful of times.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

This was great. Surprisingly, I don't think I've listened to this one before, and I have to say a bunch are better than Oh Bondage Up Yours. Definitely will be listening to this more

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

1/5

It really is as bad as I always think Steely Dan sounds like. For pluses, its easy to ignore, and backlash to stuff like this gave us punk

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

Not really my thing but I can see the appeal. The first few songs I was thinking it would be a lot better stripped down and less pop, but then the best song is Velvet Elvis which is pretty much pop. Butterflies is the other standout, but the rest isn't my jam, and High Horse was just awful

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

This is a surprise rating for me - I've had this album in various formats since it came out, and expected to give it a 4 but it really is not as strong as their others - at least through Automatic. So I'm giving it a 3, but a very high 3

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

I was excited for something I hadn't heard of but other than something interesting bits it didn't feel like it belonged on this list

Metallica

4/5

White Denim

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Way more diverse than I would have expected from only knowing The Message, White Lines and Adventures of..., unfortunately it wasn't for the better