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Album	You	Global	Diff
Celebrity Skin Hole	5	3.3	+1.7
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.82	+1.18
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.82	+1.18
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	4	2.83	+1.17
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	5	3.84	+1.16
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	4	+1

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Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Eleven songs in 36 minutes, lots of short & sweet. Lou at his best.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Spectacular debut album with a wide variety of guest artists and samples. Kanye's talent as record producer shines.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Heroes is the 2nd album of David Bowie's Berlin trilogy, with Brian Eno and Robert Fripp in the studio. Lots of experimentation ahead of its time, as one would expect from these artists. The title track is a poignant love song about a couple separated by the Wall, recently featured in the finale of Stranger Things.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Iggy and Ziggy in a Berlin studio producing a variety of post-punk positivity. The title track will forever be associated with the film Trainspotting, which fittingly portrays heroin addition that plagued Pop before and after L4L.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Depeche Mode's best and a time machine portal for every GenXer.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

The birth of goth rock and Robert Smith's messy look.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

I've never heard this album and understand why it would be included list, unless its about the Sub Pop label or New England grunge. I didn't really enjoy much of it, despite its tight rhythm section.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

Fun music despite serious subject matter.

Black Sabbath

5/5

I remember the first time I heard this album: I was very young and it scared the shit out of me. It was the beginning of heavy metal, which is named after the steel plants and industrial factories of Northern England, including Birmingham and Sheffield. I am a Sabbath fan and metal head, and this one's getting full marks from me.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Grammy Award winning blues and rockabilly album, last one produced by Canadian Daniel Lanois.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

NOLA founder of rock and roll, as evidenced by these catchy tunes that make you want to dance.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Amy's debut

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Third album after hitting with Le Freak from C'est Chic. Opening track Good Times was sampled for Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang.

Iron Maiden

3/5

Maiden's debut with Eddie on the cover from Day One.

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

Debut album from Black Flag, the definitive punk sound from U.S.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Big NIN fan and love this one; own the remix Further, also love.

Sulk

The Associates

3/5

Good example of 80s U.K. New Wave, with vocal style that can be quite annoying.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Popular masterpiece, time machine for Boomers. As a GenXer who grew up in the 70s, it takes me back as well. Super songwriter, this is her best work.

Tical

Method Man

3/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Last album with original members, including David Lee Roth, the best combo IMHO. Good times.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Unoriginal, run of the mill, good for exercise I suppose.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Chill African beats

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Representing a huge leap in production for its time, this brilliant album was a major influence on progressive rock in the late sixties and seventies.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

4/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

5/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Electronic masterpiece

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Approaching his mid-20s, Bowie truly came of age with this album, announcing it on Changes. With Mick Ronson and Rick Wakeman in the studio, his sound developed its addictive familiarity.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5