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Album	You	Global	Diff
Microshift Hookworms	5	3.02	+1.98
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.29	+1.71
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Odelay Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
Disraeli Gears Cream	5	3.47	+1.53
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.55	+1.45
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.57	+1.43

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.95	-1.95
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	2	3.72	-1.72
Orbital 2 Orbital	1	2.69	-1.69
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.51	-1.51
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	2	3.43	-1.43
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	2	3.41	-1.41
Punishing Kiss Ute Lemper	1	2.4	-1.4
Opus Dei Laibach	1	2.39	-1.39
Pretenders Pretenders	2	3.35	-1.35
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	2	3.33	-1.33

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Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan · 2 likes

2/5

Peak dad rock. Not quite rock n roll. Not quite jazz. Not quite interesting.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips · 1 likes

4/5

I have heard this album before but forgot most of it. This album sends you to space, forces you to dance, then welcomes you back with a warm depressing hug.

Frank

Amy Winehouse · 1 likes

4/5

Winehouse's vocals take you on a journey and the band makes for a perfect caravan to support her travels. My head was bobbing along from the intro to the outro.

1-Star Albums (5)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

I have heard this album before but forgot most of it. This album sends you to space, forces you to dance, then welcomes you back with a warm depressing hug.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Great harmonies. The guitar tone has a nice crunch to it. Wild drums. Songs are mostly forgettable. Title track slaps though.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

The songs are nice but one was enough.

The Cars

3/5

It's wild that the first three tracks were huge hits. My favourites were the last two songs.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

A really pleasant album for a Sunday afternoon. Plenty of talent and variety in the songs that I barely noticed it is a double album.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

How can a record be both noisy and catchy? Pure raw energy.

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

I don't love the vocals but I love the mood it sets and the accompanying instrumentation. I've never heard anything quite like this. I don't know if that is a good thing or not.. but I did put it on for another listen. Birdland sounds like a Grateful Dead jam set to some snazzy poetry. OK on that second listen I've come to appreciate the vocals.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

This album gives me goosebumps. I've heard in many times and I will listen to it many more. I wouldn't change anything about it. I don't believe in perfection but this one is close to it.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

The eclectic instrumentation is so cool. I love the prominence of the fretless bass and the guest appearance of a didgeridoo. This music is so bizarre whilst being cohesive. Bush's vocal range is incredible! She can pull of soft and sultry, powerful lingering vibrato and rageful screams.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

I can clearly see how they have influenced many bands that I love but this album just isn't hitting great.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Beautiful song writing. Catchy melodies and memorable lyrics. A truly timeless record.

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

This is so boring. Why is it even on this list? Maybe it was influential to something grander? I don't know or care.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Its a fun and catchy rock album. Not my favourite Beatles record but certainly not a bad one.

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Hard hitting energetic music that makes me want to thrash around.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

A pretty run-of-the-mill classic/hard rock performance. Not a bad listen but nothing special. Best part was Huey Lewis playing harmonica!

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Winehouse's vocals take you on a journey and the band makes for a perfect caravan to support her travels. My head was bobbing along from the intro to the outro.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Peak dad rock. Not quite rock n roll. Not quite jazz. Not quite interesting.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

2/5

The title track is great. The rest of it is good music but definitely feels like it is a soundtrack and doesn't stand very strongly on its own without the film.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

This one caught me off guard. I didn't expect it to go so hard! Great jazz lines blending in with nicely written rock leaning tunes. I even recognized a few tunes. So I guess I have heard this band before. If I'm in the mood for jazziness I'm probably going to put on other records but I will certainly be revisiting And When I Die and maybe a few others.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Classic Bob Dylan. Don't always know what he means but he sounds cool saying it.

Ramones

3/5

Fun fast punk rock that doesn't overstay its welcome.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

In a rave setting this would be a 5/5. As an album though it doesn't do it for me.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

I don't know much about this style of music. This was a fun listen!

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

I don't dislike industrial music but a whole album of it is maybe too much for me. However when a song or part of a song hits right it goes HARD.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

I liked some moments of this one which is more than I expected.

Microshift

Hookworms

5/5

Ethereal walls of sound hit you like waves stitched together with beautiful melodies. It has lots a psychedelia yet is well grounded. I had never heard of this group before but I am a huge fan of this. It will be a repeat listen.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Now this is how you do a rock record!

Risque

CHIC

4/5

I would listen to this for the bass alone.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Not bad overall but only a few moments stood out to me.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

This album did for me what Doolittle couldn't. I love this one. I really love the little touches of surf mixed in.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

A decent blues tinged rock album that's a lot better than most of the hard rock of the era.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

My first thought was that there was a very cool contrast between the noisy loud guitars and clean vocals. Then the last song comes in with the vocalist screaming and it's just so powerful! Awesome album.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Blusier than the other ZZ Top album on this list and for that I like this one more. Still don't love it but its a fun bluesy hard rock album.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

This is dreadful. Why is it on this list?

Joanna Newsom

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

4/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

Gary Burton is an absolute virtuoso but I can't see myself going out of my way to listen to this again.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Suede

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Everything Muddy does is 5/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

I would really like to rate this higher because some parts of this record are so damn good. Really not a fan of the vocals.

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

This album is perfect.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

Ah, so this is what noise rock is.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Monk is the best blues musician to ever live. "bUt He'S a jAzZ mUsIcIaN." Shut the f*** up and listen to Bolivar Blues again

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

I enjoyed this more than I expected but its not something I will return to.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Pretenders

2/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

The Doors

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

At the first 2-3 songs I was like "Oh wow this is neat! Something unique. Seems like the entire point of exploring 1001 albums." By the end I was so glad it was over.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Talking Heads are one of my favourite bands and this record kicks ass.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

I felt like I was one of the boys.