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Album	You	Global	Diff
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.85	+2.15
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	5	3.24	+1.76
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.67	+1.33
Take Me Apart Kelela	4	2.75	+1.25
Chris Christine and the Queens	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
L.A. Woman The Doors	1	3.66	-2.66
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45

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Public Enemy	2	5

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Among The Living

Anthrax · 1 likes

5/5

For some reason my cultural understanding of Nathrax was that they were a punk band, not metal, why I thought this I'll never know. It's not entirely off kilter to ascribe at least a little bit of punk to them, not only is Thrash more energetic than other metal genres but songs like Indians and One World do have some social conciousness to them that wouldn't be out of place on a punk album. What really proves to me that they're metal is 2 things: the incredible and fast drumming of Charlie Benante and that other tracks are based on comic books and comedians, because the best Metal bands are full of nerds. Probably my favorite thing I've gotten from this generator so far and it makes me want to explore more of Anthrax's catalog and more Thrash in general

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To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

The songs I do enjoy on here end up going 1.5-2 minutes too long of repeated chorus or just jamming, they feel like club mixes with the least danceable music ever. At his best Prince sounds incredibly soulful and fun but some tracks are downright whiny, I especially don't like "If I was your girlfriend" which is super horny and not in a good way. There are some tracks I like though, the title track and Play in the Sunshine are great, the rest of this however doesn't strike a positive chord with me

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Of it's time but not in a bad way. I wish more hip-hop now incorporated this kind of sample-heavy style into beats from time to time. You also don't really hear bars with such basic rhyme schemes in the 21st century but I really appreciate it, what it might lack in flourish it makes up for in directness. The overtly political and revolutionary intent behind these lyrics would suffer under more complicated rhyme schemes Favorite tracks: Louder Than A Bomb, She Watch Channel Zero?!, and Rebel Without A Pause

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

An absolute beast of an album in terms of scope and length but extremely comfortable soundwise. On repeated listens the complexity of the orchestration got a little overwhelming for me but I still wholly fuck with Illinois. I think people that like this should really listen to Gabriel Kahanes "The Ambassador" Decateur is definitely my favorite track

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

So theres no denying that Joni Mitchell has an outstanding voice and impeccable songwriting skills... But I think I'm more Joan Baez than Joni Mitchell when it comes to my taste in 70s folk singers. Joni Mitchell is like an eloquent beautiful song bird but I want a little bit of grit and dust on my folk songs. I can't deny that this is good music its just not 100% my taste

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

YES!!! I love me some disco I'm mostly familiar with the work of Nile and Bernard through their production work for other artists and weirdly through the supergroup of The Power Station so this was fun to work backwards in their career.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Theres no doubt Ella Fitzgerald is an incredible singer but calling this one album feels like cheating It's 4 hours of music and its herculean to listen to even once in a day without becoming very samey

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

4/5

Thrilled for this to come up as "Doesn't Matter" has been on my playlist for YEARS and I've always meant to listen to the rest of the album While I think its an interesting choice to have all the songs in both English & French I can't help but feel I would have prefered a condensed version with just one version of each song but in either French OR English depending on the song in question

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

4/5

Very excited to get this as R&B is probably my biggest genre blindspot in music as a whole. I really enjoy the more electronic backing tracks which almost makes this sound like pop album, especially on "Onanon" which might be my favorite track.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

1/5

I don't know if its the age or an internal bias against a lot of classic rock but this 100% not clicking for me

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

I want to like this but there's just something missing that I can't put my finger on, I like his voice and the lyrical content but just something about the album is hitting my brain in the wrong way to really connect

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

This is... Alright, I'm not really a fan of live albums in general but whats here is pretty good tunage. I might be persueded to listen to more Motörhead in the future Theres's plenty of songs I liked but nothing I really loved... And one track that has aged like milk in Florida sunshine 😬

Violent Femmes

4/5

Before listening to this I know 2 songs, one that I really like and one that I absolutely LOATHE, being "Blister in the Sun" and "Gone Daddy Gone" respectively. Upon listening I'm struck by how "ahead of the time" this is. It's got kind of a 90s energy which is shocking since it came out in the early 80s I still really dislike Gone Daddy Gone though, I think the xylophone just irks me This album also rivals "Pinkerton" in terms of "weirdo loser who can't talk to women" energy but I do unfortunately like music like that. Loser core type beat y'know?

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

I weirdly know a lot more of this album than I thought I did, maybe its due to songs from it bleeding into pop culture via movies and TV, maybe its kind of a sense memory from how many bands took influence from The Strokes and still sound like this. That in mind, it's a pretty quintessential early 2000s album, not quite the culture change of Nirvana in the 90s but I'd argue a lower magnitude equivalent. While I did enjoy my time with it idk that it will leave much of a lasting impression on me with the exception of the title track

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

5/5

Another PE masterclass, especially love "By the time I get to Arizona" and "Letter to the New York Post" Ending on a version of Bring tha noise featuring Anthrax is an incredible crossover that works like a sonic PB&J Also shoutout to track 5 for being the new king of "songs a white guy CANNOT do at karaoke"

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Probably the album I'm most familiar with so far in this project based soley just on the company I keep. Unfortunately I have the extremely lukewarm take of disliking Morrissey the person but being quite fond of the music he's made... But you will not catch me admitting to that in person. Johnny Marr is going crazy on guitar for this whole album, especially Bigmouth Strikes Again oh my god. Vicar in a Tutu is definitely a sleeper hit although definitely a black sheep on this record in terms of its sound. Unfortunately I do really like the Smiths, even though I like their self-titled more than The Queen is Dead

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

I didn't realize Neil Young could be so... Folk-y? Idk I enjoyed this a lot more than I would have expected. I don't always love his voice but the songwriting is pretty choice

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

My main take away is that Dusty has a great singing voice and she sounds great on this record especially... But this album is lacking something to really hook me in, it's pleasant but its not gripping me. Very easy to forget that I'm listening to it