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Album	You	Global	Diff
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.4	+1.6
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.7	+1.3

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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.47	-2.47
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	1	3.42	-2.42
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie	2	4.26	-2.26
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	3.94	-1.94
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	1	2.91	-1.91
Faust IV Faust	1	2.78	-1.78
Space Ritual Hawkwind	1	2.69	-1.69
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	2	3.66	-1.66
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.62	-1.62
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59

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Black Holes and Revelations

Muse · 1 likes

2/5

Feels like Costco-brand U2, which I don’t necessarily mean as a bad thing!

1-Star Albums (5)

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Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

3/5

At first I thought “man I forgot how great this album is!” And then I thought “man, I forgot how hard this album falls off after Polly.” This is a very good album, but the second half just doesn’t have the oomph to get it over to great. It’s no Ten by Pearl Jam.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Aggressively fine

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Ok so I know Kate had her big resurgence with Stranger Things, but I first heard her thanks to a unique—and excellent—cover she did of Elton’s “Rocket Man”. This is exactly the sound I want—like she’s writing an album specifically for the weird outsider teenage girl in a John Hughes movie.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Classic.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

Love the boll weevil song. Yee effin’ haw, Gawd bless thee US of A.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

2/5

Man… I just can’t get into Bob Dylan. Great instrumentals, some good lyrics… bUt the WAy he siNgs cOmplETELy throwS Me ofF.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

1/5

No thanks. I already don’t like Rush. This is Rush but worse.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

This aged like milk. The lyrics are cringe and the beats are repetitive and uninspired. No wonder his lyrics had to be shocking—without them, this is boring.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Excellent. Inventive. Fun. Reminds me why I love rock and roll.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Just plan rad.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Reminds me of a goofier pre-DSOTM Pink Floyd. Silly. Nice orchestrations.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Great. It’s campy and theatrical, yes. But it’s beautifully written and feels just massive. The ballads are tender and touching, and Meat’s vocals are outstanding. Top to bottom, this album absolutely rips.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Another above average Bowie album

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Nice bops

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Yee haw? Little hardcore, lotta twang. Interesting.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Yea obviously

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

I’m in the minority of people that think AM sounds like slightly better generic alt rock. This was slightly better than good.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

This is an absolute classic. Highlight for me is Anything Goes. Fun fact, this was one if the two first albums I bought on vinyl (the second being 52nd Street). This is just a lovely, lovable album.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

It’s a stunning, perfect work of art. This is beyond an album, it’s like looking at Bernini’s “David”. The story, the orchestrations, the BAND. I could make a strong case that this is the single greatest album of all time. The Wall on Broadway when?

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Yee haw I guess.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

2/5

Eh. Overhyped. Like I get why this was a hit, but it’s not Bowie at his best nor does it really feel like a rock opera—or all that spacey.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

1/5

This was a slog of beeps and boops. There were some pleasant moments, but I just couldn’t get into it. I like mellow electronica… or maybe I don’t.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Oh yea I like this. Get me a Ford Pickup, the plains are calling.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

1/5

Maybe I just wasn’t on enough drugs on a Monday afternoon to fully appreciate this album… but I found the majority of it to be really, really annoying.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

It’s perfect.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Great. What an ending.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

“It’s not a side effect of the cocaine I’m thinking it must be love” by Fall Out Boy Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Great chunky piano.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Nice. Real mellow on a busy Friday afternoon.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Feels like Costco-brand U2, which I don’t necessarily mean as a bad thing!

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

A fair amount of this was straight-up goofy, a precursor to some of Blink’s humor. I was pretty down on this album until Take 5, D. That “side” of the album was right up my alley. A neat punk-ish album. Probably best enjoyed when played live in a gross basement bar.

2112

Rush

2/5

Alright so I’ll admit at the get-go that I don’t like Rush. This is a perfectly fine album, and I know they’re a pioneer of prog, but I think there are a lot of contemporaries that do a lot of what Rush tries to do better. I’ll take Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, and Coheed & Cambria every time over this.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Yes this is an album.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Great. My favorite this about this album is that it just *feels* like New York in the 90s. The jazz motifs throughout are masterful.

Adele

4/5

Separating personal feelings from the music… it’s a great album. Just seriously intense vocals.

Tusk