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Album	You	Global	Diff
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.34	+1.66
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.66	+1.34
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	5	3.85	+1.15
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Station To Station David Bowie	1	3.69	-2.69
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Protection Massive Attack	2	3.24	-1.24
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	2	3.23	-1.23
Vespertine Björk	2	3.17	-1.17
Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C.	2	3.12	-1.12
Purple Rain Prince	3	4.02	-1.02
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	2	3.02	-1.02

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Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

She got the Mercedes Benz “UGH”. Sequencing and flow sucks, but some good tracks. 1. The last resort 2. Try and love 3. Wasted time (reprise)

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Absolute fire

Station To Station

David Bowie

1/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Realized I had never listened to a full rush album before. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, ended up listening to all the live cuts on the anniversary edition too.

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Obviously it’s a big influential record, and there are some great songs on it, but a lot of it feels stuck in it’s era instead of timeless. Also not a fan of prince going shriek mode

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

My #3 AF album, it’s banger after banger.

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Would’ve been a 3 if it wasn’t for the blasphemy.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Supreme

Fever Ray

2/5

It was fine, inoffensive and some sounds were interesting, inclusion of bird chirps was nice comedic relief. Overall just kind of boring.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyed. I definitely want to make some time to look a bit deeper into their stuff.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Half the songs are pretty interesting, and half sound like they were made for Madagascar The Game for GameCube, not necessarily derogatory.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

One of the albums that put me on the path of discovering music as a youngin. Easiest 5

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

If Help! became a band and only had access to a potato to record its music you’d have this record. Zilch was great though

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

https://youtu.be/WZ2TC8duaoE?si=o_gOdhJwww_N5TJx

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

I’m sure some people probably hate how long and drawn out a lot of the songs are, but the atmosphere is exactly what makes me love this album. Almost feels like I lose track of how far into the album I am, but also don’t really care.

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

The piano accents on weather storm sound like they were taken straight from breath of the wild. Otherwise even though it’s non offensive I’ve just never been able to click with massive attack. This album made me feel like it was 2am in a sleazy bar and I didn’t belong there.

Vespertine

Björk

2/5

Bjück

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

I love this. I listened to it 4 times. Thrasher, powderfinger, sail away, the opening and closing tracks, it was all so well done. I definitely was not ready for Neil young even a year ago but I just connected with this for some reason now.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Pretty good, a little slow at points but I feel it’s one of those albums I could grow to like if I really tried. The last song was a standout to me, I found it had a progression very similar to death cab.

Dire Straits

3/5

I listened to it twice and liked it enough, although it felt like every other song was just a less good version of Sultans.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

This album is so good that wonderwall isn’t even the best song on it. It’s 50 minutes of “Hell Yeah” music to me, and not at all blinded by nostalgia.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

I guess when you give coke to a theatre kid you get something close to a masterpiece. This album held my attention through its long runtime. I loved how many different directions he took it in and yet nothing really sounded out of place, except maybe for Jamaican Jerk Off.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

I’m still not a huge Beatles fan, but this is one of their albums that I prefer slightly more. It sits somewhere between a 3 and 4 for me, but giving it 3 feels too low when an album was this influential.

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Definitely need to be in a specific mood to listen to this but bongo jazz is actually pretty sick. The timing of a lot of the horn stabs is really interesting and I feel there’s something musically to learn from that.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

It was just fine. I have nothing to say which in a way says a lot.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Didn’t listen to the entire runtime, but Ella can probably take anyone’s discography and make it sound beautiful.

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

There was nothing wrong with this, I just found it boring.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

While I love some of his classics, desolation row and like a rolling stone are awesome, after an hour and a half the nasal crooning does get to me. Still enjoyed this though.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

This might be some of the best storytelling in an album ever. Listening to this and then born in the USA back to back makes me respect Bruce a lot, he can capture extremely different vibes so well

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Not huge on Queens, and this album felt a bit bloated to me. Definitely some good riffs in here but at this point in time I’m just not into that sludgy 90’s palette.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

I used to think the Black Keys were so much better than The White Stripes in that debate. But revisiting this, I feel it holds up so much better in the end. Hotel Yorba, Fell in love with a girl, we’re going to be friends, all classics.

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

I actually didn’t mind this and mostly because his voice wasn’t as obnoxiously twangy as most country singers.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

I don’t care if hungry like the wolf is a top 10 cheesy song I love it.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

The singles really carry this album and still are amazing. Other half of the songs continue to not age super well.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

Rachel kept asking me to turn it off

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

I did enjoy some parts, found her voice got a bit grating to my ears as it dragged on.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Waiting for the Sun was actually my standout track, loved it’s punchiness. Peace frog obviously another classic. A couple other good tracks but overall I think the second half of the album falls flat compared to the first half. This sits a bit higher than a 3 but not quite 4 level for me.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

A light 3, I probably wouldn’t return to this one, but it was perfectly fine. The first and last song were like goofy intro/outro, and the sax added some depth even if the songs themselves weren’t super strong.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Walmart Oasis.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

I thought it started out kind of strong, but then they started waffling around. I even checked my phone once to see if it had switched to autoplay because each song sounded so disconnected from the one before it, I was confused. This is an EXTREMELY light 3, like a 2.6.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

In a vacuum some of these songs are good. As an album though it feels like it doesn’t know who it wants to be. You go from a song that sounds like it should be on the banjo-kazooie soundtrack to a Jack Johnson B-side. Makes no sense to me.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

All of these songs are so good at their core that even when you take the grunge palate away from them they hold up. In some cases they shine even more.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

My fav Dylan

The Libertines

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Quiet was the standout track to me, sonically had interesting ideas but lacked any real punch for me.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Appreciate it but likely won’t go back to it unless a hyper specific situation calls for it.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

I’ve listened to a fair amount of Genesis and am a fan but this album especially stood out to me. So many parts of it feel like they could’ve come out today, gives it a timeless feel. Will be going back to this. 4.5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

I love Bowie very much.

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Moby

3/5

This is what Frutiger Aero sounds like to me.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Bramphex Twin.