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Album	You	Global	Diff
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.27	+1.73
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
Superunknown Soundgarden	5	3.65	+1.35
Mask Bauhaus	4	2.84	+1.16
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	4	2.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1	3.71	-2.71
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.38	-2.38
São Paulo Confessions Suba	1	2.84	-1.84
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	2	3.81	-1.81
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.67	-1.67
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.65	-1.65
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	2	3.57	-1.57
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.39	-1.39
British Steel Judas Priest	2	3.29	-1.29

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Dookie

Green Day · 1 likes

2/5

Uninteresting. Everything sounds so agreeable. Punk for middle school. Except for Basket Case, this did nothing for me.

Either Or

Elliott Smith · 1 likes

3/5

Man idk. Sometimes it sounds good and sometimes it really doesn’t. Not bad. Don’t know what to rate.

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American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Is murder so wrong? Yeah. But nonetheless appealing, at least symbolically. Sounds like he’s singing from his deathbed. Cried a few times listening.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

A few great songs but as many i do not care for. He has the voice of a work on a string, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Happy Man is awesome. Great guitar. Still not a fan of ballads.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Interesting sounds. Not amazed. But not bad.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Mostly good. Very cool. Rolling Stone drags a bit, Do Your Thing and Funky Music are great.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

2/5

Love Sidewinder but I just couldn’t connect with this one. It’s boring to me. The “pain” feels fake. Maybe I’lll like it more in a couple years.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

It’s alright. The extra soulful parts just sound phony. That said, I love Karma Chameleon and Mister Man. It’s a Miracle is also very listenable. Looking forward to George Michael. I have a feeling he does this sound better.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Great album. Son of Mr Green Genes and It Must Be A Camel favorites. Peaches in Regalia kinda sounds like video game music. All songs good. I would like this album more if there were more songs!! Willie The Pimp gets stuck in my head way too easily, but not as often as i’d like.

Common

5/5

Amazing. Like someone is handing you memories.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

Pretty cool. That’s it though. Just cool. Strychnine is awesome though.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

1/5

Clean, detached, kinda boring. 2 songs are sorta interesting but overall i’m not very impressed.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

This british band makes me feel american. Very good. I love the horns

The Stone Roses

2/5

Love Adore Me. Some beautiful sounds on here, but not impressed by too many songs.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Pretty good. I like plenty of the songs, but I still prefer Time. Need to listen to this again later.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Already familiar! I rediscover this album about once every year and it becomes the only thing I can listen to for a few days. Amazing album.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Very good. Kinda creepy.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Okay. I really like Wonderful. Some interesting stuff but a lot also not so interesting. Almost Ween-like in some songs like Liquid Bird. Not a bad album, just feel like I’ve heard most of it before (even though I haven’t).

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Beautiful album. Can really hear how influential it is. Most of these albums could probably be described as “ahead of their time” and this one absolutely is. Another Planet rules.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

1/5

Unimpressive. Way too vocal-focused for me-can’t appreciate the music at all. I was bored and a little irritated trying to listen to this. She’s not untalented, I just can’t find anything that grabs me in this album.

Music

Madonna

3/5

Pretty good. I was surprised with how unique this sounded. Don’t like every song, but most have something interesting about them. Paradise almost sounds like a Damaged Bug song.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Didn’t grab me. Black Sheep Boy is good, but his singing takes me out of most songs. Scott 3 is good and the avant garde 80s stuff sounds interesting, but this one doesn’t do it for me.

System Of A Down

5/5

All hits no misses. Nothing like it. These guys knew what they were doing from the start.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Beautiful. Unsure how to rate this. Need a few months with it at least.

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

Uninteresting. Everything sounds so agreeable. Punk for middle school. Except for Basket Case, this did nothing for me.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Not a fan. I feel bad for British rappers.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Really not sure how this made the list. Extra star for the cricket call and response song. That was cool.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Not super familiar with country music but this one was great. Brass Buttons stood out - poignant and so well done on every level. Will revisit. Not sure why but I hesitate to give a 5. This may change.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

My least favorite Talking Heads album, although I haven’t heard anything after Speaking In Tongues. Still good, I love Paper, Memories Can’t Wait, Heaven, Drugs, and I wish Dancing for Money got fully produced.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

1/5

lame

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Forgot how much I liked this one. I remember disliking it when I first heard it but now I like it more every time I listen to it. Book I Read, Pulled Up, New Feeling all great, and newly discovered I Want to Live on the deluxe version, which I love and somehow reminds me of Dinosaur Jr. 5 stars might be too high but i’m feeling it right now.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Did not do it for me. The piano itself sounds off to me in this. The music is nice sometimes, but most of the time feels pretty stock. It’s like royalty free background music.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Pure album. Enjoy the Silence + Policy of Truth so fucking sick. Not so into Blue Dress and Clean, I almost always skip those, so I can’t give it 5/5.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Fun. The crowd getting crazy was a plus. Would have loved to be there when this was recorded.

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Liked this a lot. Maybe I am a boomer.

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Loved this. Lots of different things going on. Will revisit. Something in the Way of Things is awesome.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

I know this doesn’t make sense but this album is hyperpop to me. I enjoyed it. Not too familiar with the scene but I can hear XTC and Orange Juice in there. October is Orange and Marine Boy are favorites.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Loved this. Cool grooves and noises and lyrics. Hate the cover art though.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Fun. Not amazed but worth the listen. Freddie’s Dead is great.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Hell of an album. Lookin Out My Backdoor is one of the best songs ever. Only 4 bc some sounded just a little too basic, but otherwise very good.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Not sure what I think of this yet. Great writing but I’m not into the music. Even so, it’s well done. Behind the Wall, Mountains of Things, and For my Lover were my favorites.

New York Dolls

4/5

Very impressed by this one. It’s right up my alley and I’m surprised I went so long without ever hearing it. Very good.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

It’s alright. Doesn’t make me feel any sort of way. Not bad, just not all that exciting or interesting. Breaking the Law is pretty fun though.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Pretty good. Family business is my favorite. Never listened to Kanye before and i’m fairly impressed. When the artist puts so much of themself into their art you really can’t separate it from the artist nor should you. It’s sad how he ended up. It tints all of his work knowing that the success he raps about will sour and he’d become a real life villain. Dude has serious fucking problems but I can’t deny he was talented.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Least favorite Smiths album. Just not as original as the others. Still, I really like Stop Me and Unhappy Birthday.

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

Really loses steam after Helpless. Great opening 3 song run though. Haven’t yet listened to Husker Du, very excited to.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

This one’s okay. I liked I Need Your Lovin and Runaway Child. All the songs about getting the girl back were kinda samey.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

Really really good. 5 might be too high but i’m feeling it right now.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Bit of a “Seinfeld isn’t funny” situation here where something so influential is seen as less impressive or interesting due to the extent of its influence making it seem paint by numbers. I know that this is great music but I just wasn’t into it. I respect it, but not very interested in another listen at least for now.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Goddamn

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Not so into it. I liked Amsterdam and I was familiar with Funeral Tango through Scott Walker’s cover, which I like a lot. The rest of the album doesn’t do anything for me.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

One of the best ever opening songs to an album. I also really like Thom Yorke’s appearance. Some great songs and some boring ones, but the good ones outshine those.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Very impressed. Not much to say. This is new to me and i like it.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

2/5

This one didn’t hit. Song in the Key of Life was way better. I still like Smile Please, though.

The Band

3/5

Well done, just not really for me. Up on Cripple Creek is great.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Obviously great. But I really don’t like You Shook Me.

Faith

George Michael

4/5

Good clean fun. I liked this a lot.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Makes me want to listen to Echo and the Bunnymen. Not terrible. I probably would have thought it was great if I had heard it when it came out. But now it sounds to me like a Vonage commercial. I like With or Without You, one of the first songs I learned on the bass.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Man idk. Sometimes it sounds good and sometimes it really doesn’t. Not bad. Don’t know what to rate.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Like 2nd half more than 1st. But all are at least interesting. Good album. Not the best REM, but up there.