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Album	You	Global	Diff
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	2.91	+2.09
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	5	3.08	+1.92
Being There Wilco	5	3.22	+1.78
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake	5	3.46	+1.54
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.6	+1.4
Let's Stay Together Al Green	5	3.76	+1.24
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.13	-2.13
The Man Who Travis	1	3.01	-2.01
Tidal Fiona Apple	2	3.46	-1.46
Melodrama Lorde	2	3.32	-1.32
Central Reservation Beth Orton	2	3.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (12)

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys · 1 likes

4/5

don’t think the album started off very strong, first four are pretty whatever. like the jazz influence. root down - jimmy smith. sabotage = classic. get it together, q-tip. like the instrumentals.

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Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

not my favorite TH album. some good tracks and skippers. psycho killer, don’t worry about the government, love > building on fire, thank you for sending me an angel.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

don’t think the album started off very strong, first four are pretty whatever. like the jazz influence. root down - jimmy smith. sabotage = classic. get it together, q-tip. like the instrumentals.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

surprised how low key it is. criminal is a jam and only song i knew. shadowboxing is good. the rest is not really grabbing me. seems a little dated across the board.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

fun album. some great samples. some very silly rhymes.

Elvis Presley

4/5

classic debut. good choice of covers. interestingly not a single original. perkins. charles. little richard. pretty strong even without the singles.

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

green light is a serious jam. not sure about the others.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

great album. as good as, better than pink moon? idk. river man is great.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

definitely one of the best/my fav costello albums. others include: this year’s model, king of america, imperial bedroom. special love for later when i was cruel and delivery man. not a bad song on the album.

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

idk what i thought xtc sounded like, but it wasn’t this. it's very eclectic. pop. classical. psychedelic. indian raga. jazz. dear god is great. making plans for nigel is a great tune not on this album. i was told to check that out as well.

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

radiohead-lite. for when the bleeps and blips are just too much for the MOR inclined. it's fine. it’s for high schoolers.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

top three of the beatles album, placement depends on the day (other two, revolver, abbey road). dear prudence is probably my fav beatles song. paul on the bass and drums. the “throw away” tunes are fun. wild honey pie ftw. #9, could take or leave, love the outtakes too.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

i like other pink floyd albums quite a lot, but i do not care for this one very much. too bloated, not enough memorable parts for me. fairly disjointed. most songs would cannot stand on their own. please stop playing different parts of the wall. "hey you" is a good tune. so is "comfortably numb."

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

love fela. his approach is pretty formulaic, but it works. hook, horns, jam it out, bring it down, back in for the finale. big fan. have his boxset something like ~50 albums.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

let’s stay together is a pure total jam. the back and forth between la la (al al) is chefs kiss. pretty good bee gees cover. really like the up beat numbers.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

a solid album. good choice of covers. jazzier than i thought it was going to be (as opposed to straight up soul, if that makes sense). a good blend of genres, i can see how it would have been a groundbreaker when released.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

good, solid art-pop album. a couple low notes. "my love, my life" is maybe my least fav. the rest are pretty good jams. idk if i would have ended it on "happy hawaii". "dancing queen" is pretty grating at this point with its saturation in pop culture, but that's not abba's fault. "fernando" is a jam. gotta love a couple of swedes singing about mexican revolutionaries.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

great album. a real marty scorsese classic. "monkey man" and "live with me" are killer "lesser" known stones tunes.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

this one is better than let it bleed. funny i should have them back to back. both five stars, but this was is more five stars. killer opening line up with "rocks off" > "rip this joint" > "shake your hips". love "ventilator blues", "sweet virginia", "loving cup", "tumbling dice". "happy" with keef on the vox.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

it's a good little album. "these days" is probably the best known song (penned by jackson browne). other songs written by/contributed to by big name artists - dylan, reed, cale, hardin. she can't really sing, but it's kind of charming?

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

5/5

great prog-genesis album. peter gabriel genesis > phil collins genesis. that said, phil is a beast on the skins. one of progs' great drummers. i've seen the musical box recreated tours of the gabriel years, and they're a lot of fun - this tour does the whole album and then an encore of some earlier stuff. selling england is a better album (and tour) tho. this is how you make a concept album (looking at you 'the wall'). more than a handful of memorable songs, songs that can be played out of context and enjoyed.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

this is what was scaring white people in the late 80s huh? and to think it brought us the best reality tv show ever.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

i zimbra. cities. life during wartime. heaven. memories can’t wait. classic funky heads. their first truly great album.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

not bad. has some good numbers. very lilith faire. some production is pretty dated. ultimately not my thing.

White Denim

4/5

i saw them open for someone, not sure. i remember it being enjoyable enough. i do not remember it being so proggy and eclectic. a good mix of genres happening. can see it appealing to the jam band crowd and the indie crowd alike. vocalist has a ty segal vibe, or maybe it's vice versa? good stuff.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

p-funk. love it. maceo and fred on the horns. great addition.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

some great tunes. same social commentary can be applied to today (timeless?! :/ ) inner city blues is a jam.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

hard to say which of the solo albums released after the break-up of the beatles is the best (mccartney, plastic ono band, atmp). personally, i think it comes down to this or pob. although not alive at the time, i would have to think this was the most surprising of them all. even lp 3 is fun. although the rest of his solo career had some definite highlights, this is without a doubt the best of his albums.

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

not bad. "daydreamin'" is a jam. like the jay-z tune. horrible album cover. and where's the bass in the mix?

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

another good effort from the stones. three real bangers on here ("sympathy for the devils", "street fighting man", "stray cat blues". i don't think it's as good as the next three however. the other tracks, blues meandering, hit a little less than on other albums. definitely starts the shift to the sound i think most people think of when they think 'the stones'.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

love nick cave. this "stagger lee" is the best version of the "stagger lee"s. saw him do it live, one of the best performances i've ever seen. fun to imagine a kylie minogue stan buying this album for her two spots and getting this album.

Common

3/5

common? the actor? not bad. good production.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

a good listen. very eclectic. "sunday sunday" and "oily water" are definite highlights.

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

while it's no metal machine music, this album is pretty good too. "walk on the wild side" and "satellite of love" are some highlights. this "wagon wheel" is superior to the 'hootie' version, which i was surprised to learn was actually co-written by bob zimmerman.

Being There

Wilco

5/5

wilco has a lot of five star albums and this is one of them. i assume at least "yankee hotel foxtrot" is part of this as well. do not sleep on "a ghost is born", "sky blue sky", "the whole love" - those are worthy of five stars as well. in fact, listen to the whole wilco discography. i truly believe wilco is one of the greatest american bands ever (ccr, grateful dead, r.e.m., the byrds, the band).

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

love willie. one of his best. if you like this one check out: "shotgun willie", "phases and stages". or anything. i don't know if the guy has a bad album, but i haven't listened to all 100+.