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Album	You	Global	Diff
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Document R.E.M.	5	3.55	+1.45
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.76	+1.24
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	4	2.82	+1.18
Ctrl SZA	4	2.92	+1.08
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.29	-1.29
Screamadelica Primal Scream	2	3.17	-1.17
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	2	3.16	-1.16
The Lexicon Of Love ABC	2	3.09	-1.09
Architecture And Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	2	3.06	-1.06

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Surfer Rosa

Pixies · 1 likes

5/5

my first vinyl day!! i fuckin love this one

Purple Rain

Prince · 1 likes

5/5

god this album rips. this dude was HORNY

The Stranger

Billy Joel · 1 likes

4/5

never listened to this album before, but i knew all the songs except “Get it Right the First Time”. this is a good one

Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar · 1 likes

4/5

didn’t enjoy the “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” cover or the twist at the end, but everything else was really nice!! great production, really clean mix, and Ananda is incredibly skilled at sitar. really enjoyed most of this despite having reservations at first glance

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

First impression: yuck Lotta hits on here. Good representation of cheesy 70s music?? "Tuesday" ballad is very cheesy. "Mississippi Kid" def the weakest song here. This had to be in the same vein as a bunch of other artists copying Robert Johnson during this time, but not really getting the blues (although the blues structure is solid). And, of course, "Free Bird" End impression: better than I expected. it’s a 70s rock album

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

sick. perfect album. didn’t know this was the original “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

my first vinyl day!! i fuckin love this one

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

like most Rolling Stones albums, starts of great then takes a nose dive. this one kinda sucks. 3 stars solely because of Under my Thumb

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

god this album rips. this dude was HORNY

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

vinyl day!! God said to Abraham “Kill me a son” Abe says “Man, you must be putting me on” God said “No.” Abe said “What?”

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

meh

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

perfect. no notes

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

never listened to this album before, but i knew all the songs except “Get it Right the First Time”. this is a good one

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

i get “Chan Chan” stuck in my head like once a month. Cuban music rules

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

this is an album where i understand that it was perhaps groundbreaking at the time, it doesn’t really hold up today imo. the ideas here were fleshed out later and greatly improved upon. sounds like a prototype CSN&Y. “Draft Morning” is an insane song, and the moog is sick

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

it’s fine. nothing really spectacular going on here tbh

Dire Straits

3/5

kind of had a hard time collecting my thoughts on this one. best analogy i could come up with is when you’re watching a movie/tv show from the 70s and you see an actor that looks like a regular person: no perfect teeth, no big muscles, nothing in particular that would make you think they’re part of Hollywood. you see that and think “wow, i guess they were just letting anyone be in movies back then.” maybe this album has some sort of incredible cultural significance i’m missing, but ultimately it just sounds like mellow inoffensive adult contemporary music from the 80s (albeit released in 1978). the production is clean and the mix is great, but nothing else really stands out for me here. Dire Straits is the Coldplay of gen x

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

this album is pretty cool. lots going on here and only a couple boring tracks. this time period is a huge blind spot for me so this was cool to listen to

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

this one’s weird. nothing too crazy, but it’s weird. kinda like if Bowie was a crazy German guy?

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Jeff Lynne tha god

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

2/5

an interesting collection of songs.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

i’m more familiar with PJ Harvey’s earlier work, but this is really cool. kind of a distillation of some early 2000s sounds like Arcade Fire and Santigold. “The Glorious Land” and “The Words That Maketh Murder” are similar songs, but the storytelling is really compelling. man, this one takes me back to the simpler times of 15 years ago in (good lord) 2011. last track ended on a weird note to me. this is a solid album

The Stone Roses

5/5

hell yeah

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

i knew Blues Boy King was a singer, but hadn’t really heard anything outside of when he was pretty old. it’s so insane the greatest blues guitarist of a generation also had a voice like Donny Hathaway. i found it interesting how short a lot of these tunes are. would have guessed more improv/solos. also a plus he told the fellas not to hit their wives. one can only conclude this was a radical departure from the norms of the 60s

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

yikes

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

not in english. one star

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

80s rock baby

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

got through about half of this. some tracks weren’t as bad as others

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

“If we don’t take action now we settle for nothing later. We’ll settle for nothing now, and we’ll settle for nothing later” FUCK ICE

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

70s rock

Gorillaz

4/5

this album is pretty good, but Demon Days better be on this list!!

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

kind of boring 80s music. there’s a couple brights spots but not many

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

such a great snapshot of the early 2000s. also a great reminder if you don’t find Amy Winehouse attractive she will think you’re gay. Mr. Magic get stuck in my head all the time

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

started strong and tailed off a lot of these songs sound pretty similar

Ctrl

SZA

4/5

a bit too long, but this is a near classic

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

not what i was expecting for a Brazilian album. chill 70s vibes

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

hell yeah

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

4/5

this album is so unique and incredible. it’s badass to criticize Jay-Z and the next track have him feature. It’s genius to have Jill Scott come in and just riff over a sample. The strings arrangements are just as good as prime Kanye. Lupe critiques the use of drone strikes in 2006. Then there’s a song calling out American imperialism called American Terrorist!! The last track is heartfelt, but unfortunately annoying. This is a near masterpiece.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

goddamn perfect album. i still remember the first time listening to this all the way through

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

solid. that song with Thom is incredible

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

i’ve got mixed feelings about samba. that first tune is a classic tho

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

god this thing is massive, but it’s great. lots of love songs, several goofy songs, and a bunch of big band. i was a little surprised there wasn’t more jazz to showcase Ella’s scat singing, but i guess this is more about the Gershwins. what a little treat as the last tune. i think Ira Gershwin said it best: “I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them”

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

perfect no notes

Odelay

Beck

3/5

90s rock

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

quintessential 60s music. was trying to think of a reason to hate this and couldn’t come up with anything legit. this is solid

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Tainted Love is a bop, but the rest of this is just mid. Sex Dwarf is an insane song (not complimentary)

Metallica

4/5

i’ve heard some of these songs, but never listened to the whole album at once. it’s pretty solid. can’t believe how popular this was despite every song being over 4 minutes. “Enter Sandman” always reminds me of Mariano Rivera RIP (he’s not actually dead, but is a huge MAGA supporter so he’s dead to me)

Cross

Justice

4/5

hell yeah. a truly enjoyable listen

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

while this is a tremendous album, it’s hard for me to listen to because it’s so intimate and bare. you are listening to the deepest parts of Smith’s soul which is imo the embodiment of depression. RIP

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

vinyl day!! this album is a true masterpiece

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

an instant classic. i haven’t listened to this in years all the way through, and it struck me how formative this album was for me. i had this thing on repeat when i was 13!! such a great debut

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

wow this is a lot. not really sure what else to say

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

vinyl day!! perfect album top to bottom. every song gets stuck in my head

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

kind of like discount Bowie. i mean this as a compliment mostly