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Album	You	Global	Diff
Floodland Sisters Of Mercy	5	3.06	+1.94
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	5	3.25	+1.75
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	5	3.34	+1.66
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.43	+1.57
Bright Flight Silver Jews	4	2.68	+1.32
Boston Boston	5	3.7	+1.3
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	4	2.71	+1.29
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	4	2.86	+1.14
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.57	-2.57
Low-Life New Order	1	3.29	-2.29
Guitar Town Steve Earle	1	2.79	-1.79
The White Room The KLF	1	2.78	-1.78
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.67	-1.67
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	2	3.62	-1.62
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
Low David Bowie	2	3.54	-1.54
Dusty In Memphis Dusty Springfield	2	3.47	-1.47
En-Tact The Shamen	1	2.42	-1.42

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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Knew many of the big ones here: Blowin' in the Wind, Girl from the North Country, Don't Think Twice It's All Right. I really liked A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, which I may have heard in A Complete Unknown, but wasn't otherwise familiar with.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

I like it when early hip hop is all "my name is Matt and I'm hear to say." "A Little Bit of Soap" is giving Tracy Morgan in Werewolf Bar Mitzvah vibes. Like the vibe but only a couple songs make me pay attention.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

I like the Anchorman jazz flute in "Right On." Also like "Inner City Blues." This is obviously good (Rolling Stone has it #1 all time) and socially important and profound but also just not my thing.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

This is masturbatory guitar bullshit, which is why I'm giving it a high rating

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

I thought this was going to be all sugar pie this and honey bunch that. And I like that kind of cheesy Motown but it's really just oldies/wedding music to me. Instead, this was darker, grittier, funkier. Beautiful collection of voices, beautiful orchestration. Loved it. Toward the end it got a little filler-y

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

"I can move any mountain" no you can't. More like Sha-meh

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Fun album that would probably grow on me. This is almost a 4 for me but it was a little too generic. Also why won’t they tell us what the T stands for

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Amazing voice, and SoaPreacher Man is one of my favorite songs of all time. I really liked "Don't Forget About Me." Other than that, aside from liking the vibe, I never need to hear this again. Sorry Dusty

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Really liked “Flutes” and “Let Me Be Him.” Others are background music in a good way. This got close to a 4 but not quite there for me

Low-Life

New Order

1/5

If this is New Order I'd hate to hear the Old Order. This album is the sound of rain ruining a picnic. It is completely uninteresting to me.

Boston

5/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

I don't know why Boston is a 5 for me and Thin Lizzy is a 2, but life is mysterious. I do think it's a high 2. This album rocks in places but mostly is just replacement-level cock rock. The crowd cheers when they hear the intro to Boys are Back in Town, sort of like it's the first song they recognize. It's all a little soulless and not that distinct for me.

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

There's a line from Bojack Horseman where a high-powered PR exec tells a former-actor-turned-civilian, "I am forgetting your face as I'm looking at it." That's what it was like to listen to Lost Souls by Doves. That's not to say I didn't enjoy some of the vibes and some moments of beauty. But it seems very background and insignificant. Also it seems like this guy can't sing?

Low

David Bowie

2/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

Steve Earle, you seem like a nice man, but I could not wait for this to end.

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

It was nice of CHIC to lay down the samples that would same day be used in better songs. I did like the vocal performance in At Last I Am Free

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

I don't know what to tell you, this is so good. A couple low points (Spanish Harlem, Do You Wanna Dance) but mostly love it. Straight Shooter and Somebody Groovy are great.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Too much beef, not enough heart.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

5/5

The fuck is this? I’ll tell you the fuck it is. It’s great!

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

DJ Shadow? More like Rachel Maddow. Which means I sort of liked it. Heads were nodded. But not really my thing.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

This seems historically important. But so is the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and yet that doesn't appear on a list of albums I'm supposed to listen to. Blue Monday is the only song I would conceive of listening to again voluntarily. I'm giving a generous 2 because he was thoughtful enough to make these songs only 2 minutes long.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

According to Wikipedia: "In 2015, [a critic] placed it at number 97 on the "99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time" list." I agree that there must be at least 96 better dance albums than this. I'm not convinced this isn't some kind of CIA psyop

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

5/5

This rules, I love it. Highlights are Sally MacLennane, Jesse James, and Patrick O’Mulligan Irishname. I think most of those are real.

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

This is the kind of album I have to Google first to make sure it isn't secretly for Nazis. If it isn't secretly for Nazis, then I kind of weirdly like it. Though I will never listen to it again, Nazi or no Nazi. And now I will stop saying Nazi.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Fuck yeah

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

The Snores. Perfectly fine background music, but nothing really grabbed me. For all of Jim Morrison's raging id, it comes across pretty tame to me.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

I like this, and whether it’s a low 4 or a high 3 is a coin flip. It is my new favorite album from a band where Al Franken is apparently the lead singer. Slow Education especially good.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Even the best Elton John songs I find myself not caring that much about and I never need to listen to them again. Moderately high-highs, moderately low-lows, moderately creamy middles.

Ramones

3/5

Fun to hear what the ancient version of like the first two pre-Dookie Green Day albums became - even if anyone who gets a 40-minute guitar lesson can basically play the whole thing. I think this is OK and not as good as the couple of other Ramones songs I know - but, it's fine, and it knows what it is. I like Let's Dance and I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Pretzel monies

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

I don't know why, but I expected this to be more like The Strokes than what I got, which was Florence and the Machine. Which is not a bad thing. I liked it!

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

4/5

First track: Fuck you America. Second track: Fuck you England. Third track: Fuck you Jesus. Four stars. I can't imagine what it must be like to spend 5 minutes talking to Morrissey - actually yes I can and what I am imagining. But I like the music and I'm at least entertained by gawking at his smug, pompous, self-unaware-scathing reports on everybody. Really like "First of the Gang to Die."

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I'm surprised at how bad this Rolling Stones album is. I love the Stones. Outside of Paint It Black (or Mother's Little Helper, unclear what the actual first track is), I'm hard pressed to find an enjoyable song. The mid-back-half filler is the HIGHLIGHT. I've never liked Under My Thumb which is the other big song on here. It's Not Easy and Flight 505 are ok.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

I like the second half of this better than the first. Lot of interesting stuff that might grow on me.

Throwing Muses

4/5

Super interesting, like a pre-cursor to Hole or Nirvana. A bunch of songs just take a weird left turn halfway thru (Call Me, Rabbits Dying) that I like. Pretty rad alt rack for 1986 - I like it!

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

1/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

A lot of really interesting stuff happening and I generally like it. Struggling to find something that really clicks or that I couldn't live without. I'm interested in hearing more Elvis Costello; this kind of sounds like a bunch of really interesting b-sides as opposed to an album.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

This album reminded me of “The Blue Box Blues” which was a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese commercial about a girl who had the blue box blues. 4 stars

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

This is the personified sound of what it feels like when you want to go outside but its too rainy.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

While it all seemed a little generic, great vibe all around and I'd never object to this being on in the background.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

1/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Super fun. Makes me want to befriend two short bald men and use their heads as bongos.

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Some beautiful deep ocean kind of textures going on here, sort of like Sea Change expanded out. I really liked "Viorar vel til loftarasa." I'm not sure I'll ever listen to it again but maybe if I'm ever taking psychedelics in Iceland or something I'll give it another go

Achtung Baby

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

2/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Traffic

3/5