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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
Debut Björk	5	3.38	+1.62
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.46	+1.54
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.69	+1.31
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.72	+1.28
Medúlla Björk	4	2.73	+1.27
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.86	-2.86
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	1	2.99	-1.99
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	1	2.76	-1.76
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	2	3.74	-1.74
Don't Stand Me Down Dexys Midnight Runners	1	2.6	-1.6
25 Adele	2	3.38	-1.38
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	2	3.31	-1.31
Django Django Django Django	2	3.2	-1.2

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Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Every time I relisten to Graceland I become more of a mark for Graceland. Every bit of political criticism of the album is correct, but that doesn't ever make it less of a blast to listen through. Can't go ten seconds without making a sound I love.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

An album with Jump, Panama, and Hot for Teacher is a good one, but the rest doesn't work nearly as well for me. It's never unpleasant, but it's overproduced and lacks personality.

Adele

2/5

Send My Love (To Your New Lover) is the only real banger here, When We Were Young is like two ratchets shy of hitting the Elton vibe it's aiming for, but it's never bad

The Specials

5/5

just too many killer songs, this thing is so fun

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

I'm never going to love Welcome to the Machine or Have a Cigar as much as Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Money, One of My Turns, or Hey You. But I love Wish You Were Here more than any other Floyd song. That leaves the other half of the runtime - I love Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I find it less profound a statement of grief than Wish You Were Here, but it's so gorgeous, and the funky movement owns.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

1/5

I like Middle and Used. Most of this is like if Reel Big Fish took itself too seriously, if Social Distortion was no fun, or if Jeff Rosenstock had no sense of rhythm or melody. As much a pop anthem collection as anything it was meant to course correct. Often reminded me of a less talented version of Adam Schlesinger. Grading on a curve because we are talking about albums proposed as must-listens in the top 1001 sense, but I did find this actively annoying often.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

michael's best song is rock with you, and the highs here are still lower than thriller, but this might be his best album front to back? idk. i love sonic the hedgehog

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

i am not the audience for what keith is doing here. however, automator fucking freaked it.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Kind of caught between two different modes and I generally preferred the higher energy one, but it's all quite good

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Never heard Griffith before and this immediately made me a fan - perfect representative of a mode of country I sometimes crave.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

Every mean thing I could say about Paul McCartney is true about this album. Occasional moments of nice melody, but too often actually annoying imo.

Django Django

2/5

Indie game music from 2012. The vocals feel like they're only here to make tracks longer - I bet I prefer the 19-minute instrumental version of the album.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Occasionally really vibed with the production on this, but the indie pop + DJ concept never actually quite connected for me beyond a passing interest.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Really only love the upbeat singles here, this is kind of S&G at their most overproduced for me.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

It's pretty, I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I can't say it fully grabbed me!

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Was dancing in my kitchen.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Admittedly enjoyed all of this but never went gaga. Kiss Me x3 and Disintegration more my vibe.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary and Are You Experienced are incredible. I am way more into slow, melodic Jimi than Purple Haze/Fire fuzzbox Jimi.

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Still not my favorite Sonic Youth album, but outside of a discography runthrough this rocks. SK should cover Catholic Block.

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

I really only vibed with To The Moon's Contractor, but I did really vibe with it.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

Nice enough but left no impression at all.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Awful in just about every way, IMO. Without quite having the chronology down, this album either sounds like the generic country I don't like or Graham Parsons invents the country I don't like on this album.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

The muttering. The awful Werewolves of London ripoff. This is pretty dreadful.

Blur

2/5

I cannot ever pretend that I care about Albarn, but Song 2, Death of a Party, and Strange News from Another Star are all solid.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

At first I thought this was fully a nightmare, but the back to back of Abboan Fat Tracks and Brand New You're Retro hit like a truck.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Pleasant enough. Something went wrong when I added this to a playlist and a bunch of tracks seem to have been doubled, which made it feel like the album was four hours long. May deserve another spin someday.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Simply one of the very greatest, most influential albums ever.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Been listening to this album a lot for the better part of a year with my wife, and Venus As A Boy and Big Time Sensuality hit me hard every single time.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5