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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.62	+1.38
Bright Flight Silver Jews	4	2.68	+1.32

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
...And Justice For All Metallica	1	3.42	-2.42
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	1	3.28	-2.28
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	2	3.74	-1.74
21 Adele	2	3.7	-1.7
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
Parklife Blur	2	3.38	-1.38
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37
The Chronic Dr. Dre	2	3.32	-1.32
NEU! 75 Neu!	2	3.1	-1.1
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	3	4.05	-1.05

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Heroes

David Bowie · 1 likes

3/5

Very eclectic and off-kilter, mostly fun. I like the tone shift of the last few songs Highlights: "Heroes", "Moss Garden", "Neuköln"

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Paul Simon

3/5

Falls just short in a lot of ways for me. Not catchy enough to be good '70s folk pop, not poetic enough to be good Blues or standard Folk, not leaning into influences enough to match up to Graceland. Highlights: "Run That Body Down", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"

Parklife

Blur

2/5

Overstays its welcome - sounds very unique at first but ends up having very little variety in instrumentation, structure, vocals, lyrics, etc. Too goofy for me at times :'( Highlights: "Girls and Boys", "Badhead", "The Debt Collector", "To the End"

Adele

2/5

I fear most of these are not very interesting pop songs! Adele is just so much worse at being sad than emo singers and I do not really care about or identify with her relationships! Highlight: "Rolling in the Deep"

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Warm and fun as expected! Nice to listen to all the way through. Highlights: "Coat of Many Colors", "My Blue Tears", "Here I Am"

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Fun and some songs have interesting background instrumentation but it's always overlaid with boring synth. I guess I could see not liking this album if I was a parent in 1992. Highlights: "The Day The N-z Took Over", "Lil' Ghetto Boy", "A N-a Witta Gun"

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

Very nice dynamics (from song to song) and textures. I don't love his voice or lyrics but I get the allure. Every song pretty enjoyable Highlights: "I Remember Me", "Friday Night Fever"

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

Fun, bouncy, interesting even when the content is most grotesque Highlights: "What They Hittin' Foe?", "A Gangsta's Fairytale", "Rollin' Wit the Lench Mob", "The Mob"

...And Justice For All

Metallica

1/5

This is like the laziest Metallica tribute band's first album of new content. No interesting songs really. Also "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" is based on the Winkies' chant from The Wizard of Oz??? Highlights: "Eye of the Beholder" kinda, "To Live Is to Die" because mostly instrumental

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Very eclectic and off-kilter, mostly fun. I like the tone shift of the last few songs Highlights: "Heroes", "Moss Garden", "Neuköln"

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Little did they know that he was going to get so much freakier... Highlights: "Girl from the North Country", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", "Oxford Town", "Corrina, Corrina"

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Tries to be very smooth and sometimes succeeds, but other times alternates between goofy and dry. Highlights: "Smoke 'Em", "Methadonia"

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Absurd flow and nice beats for an hour. Most songs are highlights Highlights: "Shame on a N-a", "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'", "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit", "C.R.E.A.M.", "Method Man"

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

There are so many things happening all the time and none of them are interesting Highlights: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1", "In the Morning of the Magicians"

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

When they breach out da acoustic I go :O, better than previous listens and nice to sit through Highlights: "Mother", "Goodbye Blue Sky", "Is There Anybody Out There?", "Comfortably Numb"

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Keeps on driving in a fun way, some precisely vague production if you know what I'm saying Highlights: "Something Against You", "Gigantic", "River Euphrates", "Where Is My Mind?", "Vamos"

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Neat album for its time but one of those ones that has really lost its individuality over the years. Highlights: "Isi", "Leb' wohl"

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

Every song felt like the bog standard vanilla 80s in a different way. "Money for Nothing" is Foreigner, "Why Worry" is Kenny Rogers, "One World" is Stevie Wonder. All imperfect comparisons but close enough to get across how bland most of the album was. Highlights: "Walk of Life"

Violent Femmes

3/5

Like every folk punk band since, they have some crazy bangers but many songs are just not super fun or interesting or nice. Highlights: "Blister In The Sun", "Please Do Not Go", "Gone Daddy Gone", "Good Feeling"

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Listening to jazz always makes me feel like a knuckle-dragging thoughtless hopeless joyless ape. Too sleepy for this anyways. Highlights: "Blue in Green"

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

1/5

I have a feeling this album was very influential on an era/genre of music that I generally want to avoid.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

These guys sound like the 90s but also UNIQUE and GOOD??? Definitely an uphill battle against my biases. I like this more than Melon Collie on first listen. Highlights: "Cherub Rock", "Today", "Soma", "Silverfuck"

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

If they had just started playing this in airports in 1978 we would be living in a utopia by now

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Great performances and rhythms, but things start to drag on at points. Highlight: "Zombie"

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Very easy listening and hits some cool motifs

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Interesting underlying rhythms and great flow through the album Highlights: "Kowalski", "Motorhead"

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Falls into a great groove sometimes, but the melody and content are not really there for me. Highlights: "Ice Cold Ice", "Too Much Spice", "No Reservations"

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

I can't imagine going this hard and looking like musicians did in '66 Highlights: "Lost Woman", "Rack My Mind", "Hot House of Omagararshid"

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Arcade Fire are known for their ability to make a good song. Unfortunately they sometimes choose to ignore this ability and make a bad song instead. Highlights: "The Suburbs", "Empty Room", "Suburban War", "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

More very influential music that is maybe just not very interesting to listen to now. Keith Moon goes off though.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Welcome back Elvis! I don't think this guy is supposed to be listened to in album format. Highlights: "Fever", "Dirty, Dirty Feeling"

Femi Kuti

4/5

Keeps the pace going and shakes it up pretty regularly. Had to stop adding highlights, most of the album could make the list. Highlights: "Wonder Wonder", "Survival", "Plenty Nonsense"

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Got some big hits here. Mic quality, backing vocals, and lyrics give the effect of a crooked holy man singing to his congregation. Highlights: "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry", "Straight to You", "Jack the Ripper"

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Opens with their all-time hard rock song but mainly excels in the softer moments. Highlights: "Immigrant Song", "Tangerine", "That's the Way"

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

This guy loves Dre more than anything in the whole world. Perhaps the most hideous album cover of all time. Highlights: "Murder Was the Case", "Gz and Hustlas"