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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	5	3.16	+1.84
Darklands The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	3.23	+1.77
Beautiful Freak Eels	5	3.27	+1.73
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.5	+1.5
Hotel California Eagles	5	3.59	+1.41
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.64	+1.36
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.64	+1.36
California American Music Club	4	2.69	+1.31
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	4	2.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	1	3.98	-2.98
London Calling The Clash	1	3.96	-2.96
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	1	3.89	-2.89
Violator Depeche Mode	1	3.7	-2.7
Transformer Lou Reed	1	3.66	-2.66
Heroes David Bowie	1	3.61	-2.61
Marquee Moon Television	1	3.5	-2.5
Blue Joni Mitchell	1	3.49	-2.49
Surfer Rosa Pixies	1	3.49	-2.49
Queen II Queen	1	3.48	-2.48

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Rage Against The Machine

Rage Against The Machine · 1 likes

1/5

Don’t like Rage in a personal level. What he stands for and how they failed their listeners. Charges $6000 for tickets but screams out against capitalism and taxes.

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Rage Against The Machine

1/5

Don’t like Rage in a personal level. What he stands for and how they failed their listeners. Charges $6000 for tickets but screams out against capitalism and taxes.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Too erratic. Not a lot of flow with the beats and delivery. It’s jangled and tough to follow

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Always a fan of a solid jazz record.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Pornography

The Cure

1/5

Sounds really raw and real but not in a good way. It’s like the production was done in a garage with a.m single mic. The sound of the record is horrible. Every single song sounds similar. The drums are flat and are just a bouncing rhythm section. His voice is overwhelming.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Adele

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

1/5

Not my style of music at all. Was never a fan of the 1980s era British punk sound or scene.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

1/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

1/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

One of the best blues album of all time. Duane Allmans slide guitar work is on full display. The juxtaposition between the British Invasion sound and southern blues is great. The overall sound and feel of the record is incredible. One of the best albums of all time.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

1/5

I really don’t like this 80s synthpop stuff. It’s never been my favorite.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

4/5

The music part of the album is fantastic. The flow, the beats, the vibe is awesome. I cannot stand the skits. I want to hear music, and I don’t care for the dramatic crap.

Violator

Depeche Mode

1/5

I definitely still don’t like this 80s goth synth pop. It’s just jangled noise. The first song is solid, but everything after is just not good

Rocks

Aerosmith

4/5

Solid addition to the annals of boogie rock and aerosmiths catalog. I think there are better Aerosmith albums, but this is a definite rocker.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

1/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Never really liked punk music and this one is no different. It’s a lot groovier than most punk music however and has an undeniable hook in it. It’s pretty impressive that a group of black musicians from DC in the 80s transcended racial boundaries and created a sound like this.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Queen II

Queen

1/5

I do not like Queen at all and this album helped confirm that.

London Calling

The Clash

1/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

In a world awash in grunge, The Prodigy were doing something brand new. Aggressive. Industrial. Fast. NuMetal and Electronic. Nine inch nails meets aphex twins. Solid.

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

5/5

Was introduced to the Eels in high school by a friend from church and became an instant fan. I would listen to him almost religiously for years. Solid musician. Solid album. It was such a dramatic change from the grunge and nü metal sounds of the time that it was refreshing. Absolutely love this album, and listening to it for the first time in years turned that nostalgia meter to 100.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

There were a few songs that I liked, but overall, the music really washed out his voice. I could barely hear him or the lyrics and it made for kind of an exhaustive listening experience. The music itself was very good, however.

Van Halen

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

1/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Moby Grape

2/5

Ho Hum psychedelic rock album from the 70s

Marquee Moon

Television

1/5

Do not enjoy this style of music at all.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

2/5

Eh. A little underwhelming especially with all the hype around it.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

The weatherman is a great tune, other than that, this is pure cliche honky tonk. No bite. No nothing.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

Liked this more than I was expecting to. Had some solid tunes. Don’t know if I would give this a repeat listen, but for a genre I don’t really care for, it had some enjoyable moments.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

1/5

Nope

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Lyrically it’s a solid showing. However, the early 90s hip hop just isn’t my style. It’s got to much of that uplifting, kinda heavy snare style I dont dig. I’m a fan of the dirtier, heavier bass driven southern hip hop.

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Not a fan of this at all. I do like some industrial, but this just doesn’t do it for me.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

1/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

The voice, the voice is just too much. “I believe in a thing called Love” has about the only depth I can handle. There’s merit to the music, but the singing is just singularly awful.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

There’s some decent tunes. Overall, this isn’t quite my vibe but I can understand the loveFor this album.

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

The groove in Brain Drain is enough to save this album.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

2/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Is this even music? What is this?

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

California

American Music Club

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

One of the best albums of the 90s.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

Absolutely love Bob Dylan and love his full band stuff. When he gets bluesy, it’s some solid stuff.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

1/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Not his best album in his discography, but is an absolute masterpiece of 2000s era shock rap. No one can do it like Eminem, period. The dude stood on the shoulders of giants and became bigger, but never shunned his roots or those who came before him. How wordplay, his dizzying deliveries, his ability to leave you speechless or in stitches is fully on display with this album. This album started his turn from being lauded for his humorous rap songs to developing that razor edge tongue that lends credence to his mature songs.

The La's

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Solid boogie woogie blues album.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

I love Gillian Welch. This isn’t my favorite album of hers, and don’t think it showcases her raw emotional vulnerability in her songwriting like later albums do, but this is still a beautiful addition to her discography.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Growing up, I was a huge fan of Metallica and would listen to them almost religiously. However, now that I’m in my 40s and going back and listening to this album, I realized that it’s just not good. Lars drumming is abysmal, the songs are 5 minutes too long, the overall feel of the album is just bleh. They’re absolutely one of the fathers of modern American metal, but this album, just doesn’t do it for me anymore.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

1/5

The only thing good about this album; Is how brief it is. Jangled, ratchety noise. No coherence or structure. Just a rambling mess of instrument noise over the audible manufactured hiss of vintage sound.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Exceptionally long record of noise.

2112

Rush

2/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Absolutely a record that defined a new generation of music. However, I wasn’t a fan of this record.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

The juxtaposition between funk/punk and straight alternative bangers can be jarring at times. The instrumentation is amazing, but dear god Anthony is about as tone deaf as a vacuum cleaner. There were some songs I never heard before that I really liked and overall this album was a definite genre defying outbreak.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

You can definitely hear the influence of this album in bands like the Hives, the Vines, Blur and a lot of the other British garage punk bands who came out in the late 90s, early 2000s. While i can’t deny this albums influence, I will say, this isn’t my sound.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

One of the first Indie albums I ever listened to. Really made me a PJ Harvey fan. The song she does with Thom Yorke is awesome.

The Stooges

2/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

You can hear Dan the Automator loud and clear. It’s honestly got a sound that was way ahead of its time for hip hop. It was vintage but new. The delivery was off kilter and stilted and that added to its charm and inability to be labeled as a singular sound. Kool Keith really hit it out of the park with this album.

In Utero

Nirvana

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

1/5

Nope.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

2/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

It’s Aretha Franklin. She’s incredible.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

I’m pretty sure that the 80s was just a time of people pretending music was good and just making albums that were god awful. I have no idea what this putrid excuse for music is, but my god. It needs to abolished.

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

They changed hip hop for sure. Lofi jazz beats. Intelligent lyrics. The only thing is the very repetitive delivery on this album. Every song has the same cadence and Delicery style. It gets tiresome very quickly.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Not every song on the album is amazing. However the entirety of this album was just mesmerizing to listen to when it came out. The depth of emotion in Laynes voice. The fuzzy riffs that transitioned between story telling, weeping and outright lunacy. The drums banging out a rhythm we had no right to hear. This album changed my life.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

One of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. It’s an absolute stunner.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

1/5

Nope

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

This album and this band are everything the Velvet Underground wished it was and could be. I was never a big fan of TJAMC because of that god awful first album, but this one, was flat out incredible. It was beautiful, lush, sparse, compelling and mature.

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

I mean, come on, it’s the Eagles. Easy 5+ stars.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Typical 60s psych rock that wishes it was the Beatles or Pink Floyd. Nothing ground breaking but not a bad album.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Blur

2/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5