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Album	You	Global	Diff
Out of Step Minor Threat	5	2.93	+2.07
High Violet The National	5	3.24	+1.76
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
The Band The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.53	+1.47
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.53	+1.47
Ramones Ramones	5	3.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	1	2.73	-1.73
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.58	-1.58
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.5	-1.5
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.48	-1.48
25 Adele	2	3.38	-1.38
S&M Metallica	2	3.26	-1.26
Bad Company Bad Company	2	3.25	-1.25

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The Band	2	5

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Peter Gabriel · 1 likes

5/5

I'm am idiot for snoozing on this my whole life!

Morrison Hotel

The Doors · 1 likes

2/5

The Doors being considered one of the greats is a psyop.

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Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Blistering speed, biting power chords, and pop hooks that endure. Criticism of this album, by and large, misses the point. If you think this installment is lazy or boring, please consider these kids were stoned out of their minds when they made it.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Starlight is a good song but I couldn't sit thru all the rock opera. 🙉

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

A little bit too much party going on here. Great artwork, and vocal performances are wonderful. I would much rather listen to the Cure or Depeche Mode.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Bad reviews say it sucks. Good reviews say it's best enjoyed tuning out. That's all you need to know.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Recommended if you like Los Campesinos!, Dismemberment Plan, Bright Eyes... I gave it a 3 because it's a relatively unremarkable, but inoffensive bit of indie rock. It's a well-crafted set of songs, but it's about 20 minutes too long.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Lovely if a bit sleepy

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

Cringe

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

They never made a dud.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Important voice in indie music

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

RHCP are an amazing trio (Anthony Kiedis is a figment of our imagination). Californication is the only good album this band ever made

Out of Step

Minor Threat

5/5

Minor Threat made Hardcore. Ian MacKaye goes on to form Embrace, inventing Emo. Emo activates Gerard Way to get into Music. Gerard Way starts My Chemical Romance after witnessing 9/11. Inspired by MCR, Stephanie Meyer writes the Twilight series. Twilight is adapted to film. Kristen Stewart invites Ellen to.............. It's good.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Pleasant memories of my parents. Love the hippie dippie acid rock of the 60s

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Tom Waits decides to freak it---not a 5 like Rain Dogs, but worth a listen!

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Timeless perfect 10

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

You can't deny the influence of this record!

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Too many filler tracks to be a 5. That said, It's still a masterpiece. The inner Beatles tension is felt by some of the heavier tracks, which in some cases fell inspired by Hendrix, but that's just me. I think John outshines Paul on this album. Best Ringo track with Don't Pass Me By, and George's incredible While My Guitar Gently Weeps, whilst being unknowingly cucked by Eric Clapton.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Nothing, and I mean nothing can top the tone of a precision bass with flat wound strings.

Bad Company

2/5

So mid it's insulting

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Best White Stripes album hands down. 4/5 cuz Jack don't know how to close an album

Adele

2/5

There are like two dozen producers, songwriters and engineers on this album. Far too many for it to be this mid.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

In the rear view, Springsteen and Bowie. Straight ahead, Radiohead, The Killers and Arcade Fire. HOLY SHIT THEY COVERED VAN MORRISON? Sweet Thing is an all timer and it works!

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

This one is so dark. It was fun to listen to because I know more about The Cure's hits and I don't think I'd heard any of these songs since I was a kid!

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Bowie is an alien god. But he's not an infallible alien god because Golden Years is his worst radio hit. It's the only blemish on an otherwise perfect album.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Chuck D is so real good lord. Most based rap album of its generation. It's an hour but not one wasted minute.

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Coincidence that Back in Black was released the same year as Michelle Remembers...? I think not. This album feels like the gayest devil you can imagine licking your ear and saying, "Welcome to the 1980s." If you think this album is for idiots or you're sick of hearing these songs on the radio, try this: Listen for the influence from CCR, Vanilla Fudge and Neil Young. Ah that's better.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Gorgeous and vibey. Perfect listening for a quiet rainy day.

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

How rare to produce an album that could have been dropped any year! 1977's Marquee Moon could have been released in the 1980s as peers of Pixies, or in the 90s as peers of Pavement, or the 2000s as peers of the strokes, or the 2010s as peers of Car Seat Headrest, or the 2020s as peers of Geese.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Better than I expected but wouldn't go back to

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

"Fatboy slim? More like white boy retarded!" - Chris Rock

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

There is something un-enduring about this record.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Solid offering of the 1960s. A bit derivative of its predecessors. By 1967 the influence of the Beatles, Donovan and Simon & Garfunkel were so evident in these recordings that it's a little over wrought. The best is yet to come though! Soon after this, David Crosby will form CSNY and Graham Parsons will have his body snatched from LAX and burned in the desert.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Great band, bit lengthy

Peter Gabriel

5/5

I'm am idiot for snoozing on this my whole life!

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Devo really said "fuck it let's start the 1980s!"

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

RHCP are the greatest trio in rock history.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

The Band

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Unlike any live recording you're bound to hear. Sharper than hell. Johnny has such warmth not associated with him

S&M

Metallica

2/5

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself spend the rest of your creative capital on a 2hr13min live album.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

WHAT DO YOU THINK? DO I REMIND YOU OF TROUBLED TROUBADOUR DAVID CROSBY? - silly Billy Ned Flanders I would have loved this as a kid. I went through a lengthy protest and folk music phase and overlooked this one. Signs of inspo to Iron & Wine and Fleet Foxes which gives me a little grace for how pretentious David Crosby comes across.

High Violet

The National

5/5

Sad Dads forever

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Murmur sounds great but there are no standout bangers. Minimalist production choices make it an anomaly for the mid 1980s, but Stipe has yet to develop his melodic chops.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

The Doors being considered one of the greats is a psyop.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Eternal.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

This album ushered in the indie sleaze era. This is the pinnacle of my formative years as i was 15 when this came out. Meet me in the bathroom!

Technique

New Order

3/5

Six albums in a decade is very prolific. This installment feels less thoughtful than its preceding records, but very enjoyable nonetheless. I'll never tire of that signature bass tone, slathered in chorus. Peter Hook 🐐

Garbage

3/5

Wish it was more "snotty"

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes everybody liked. They left that to the Bee Gees." - Wayne Campbell

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

The edge on these tunes would have decapitated a small Victorian boy. This album is, as the kids say, TOUGH.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

If we'd simply listened to CCR we might not be in a fascist hellscape today.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

This should blow your mind at 20 years old, but eventually you gotta grow up.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Genuinely awesome voice but instrumentals leave some to be desired.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

This tapped into some weird unexplored drunken angry Irishman side of me I didn't know existed.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

It's a good time

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Surprising that this record is from 1975 because it feels distinctly 1960s to me. How did this come out the same year as Rumours? Did Dylan return to acoustic because guitar rock was so "in" at the time?

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Genre defining piece. Timeless. Detractors can suck it.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Genre defining piece. Timeless. Detractors can suck it.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

There's an inverse correlation between Metallica's quality of songwriting and the quality of production. As production increases, songwriting decreases. That's Metallica. Anyway, this is the best album featuring Jason Newsted, stepping into the monster shoes of Cliff Burton. "One" is an all-timer metal song, even if the rest of the songs are just decent. That gets it a 4 in my book.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

The singles are phenomenal! They remind me of growing up in my parents house.

Ramones

5/5

I used to hate Ramones for being repetitive and just uninteresting compared to the hardcore stuff I was listening to as a teenager. Repetition is fine when you've perfected the formula and set up generations of future punks for success.