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Album	You	Global	Diff
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.37	+1.63
Cloud Nine The Temptations	5	3.4	+1.6

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	1	3.18	-2.18
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2	4.02	-2.02
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	1	2.97	-1.97
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.91	-1.91
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.71	-1.71
The United States Of America The United States Of America	1	2.61	-1.61
Ramones Ramones	2	3.57	-1.57
Arrival ABBA	2	3.53	-1.53
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	2	3.47	-1.47

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R.E.M.

3/5

1987 More audible lyrics and harder rock sound. Has a more political undertone.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

2009. Third album from them. Album was leaked so they had to publish it earlier.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

1997. Philosophy of choosing between pleasure seeking and responsible ethical lifestyles. Title borrowed from the philosopher Kierkegaard. Elliott plays everything on this album. Elliott died of 2 (self-inflicted?) stab wounds.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

1969. First full album after they fired their lead singer David Ruffin and replaced him with Dennis Edwards. Style change to psychedelic soul.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

1971. Themes of religion, injustice, society, personal struggles. Was never meant to be a concept album.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

1978. Various archive recordings from earlier tours.

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

1972. Last album before the drummer Bill Bruford quit the band to join King Crimson. They found it challenging to record.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

2/5

2002.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

1997. Third album, after the band got broken up and re-formed but without the guitarist Nick McCabe. Nick McCabe rejoined in early 1997, so they re-recorded several songs to include his guitar parts.

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

2000. Debut studio album.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

1977. The recording sessions took place as the band members dealt with breakups and struggled with heavy drug use (cocaine), both of which shaped the album's direction and lyrics. Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album".

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

1987. Their first use of drum machines after their drummer left for another band.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

1/5

1987. Their first use of drum machines after their drummer left for another band.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

1987. Debut studio album. Most of the album's themes reflect the band's personal experiences and daily life, including their youth.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

1971. Sixth studio album and final major-label album. The last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime (died of heart failure in 1971). Heavily influenced by blues.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

1994. Considered one of the most influential and emblematic works of the 1990s. This concept album chronicles the self-destructive descent of a misanthropic protagonist into madness, dehumanization, and suicide.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

2009. Titled after the Maryland venue of the same name, where Portner and Weitz attended concerts in their youth.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

1973. Their first album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which is considered to have greatly influenced the Berlin School genre.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

2006. Second and final album. Explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity, heartbreak and trauma in a relationship. Died in 2011 from alcohol poisoning.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

1995. Combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

1970. Harrison's first solo work after the break-up of the Beatles. Introduced Harrison's signature slide guitar sound and reflected the spiritual themes present throughout much of his work.

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

1971. McLean dedicated the album to Buddy Holly, one of his childhood icons. Melancoly feel. Wrote the album while his mariage was failing.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

1998. Debut studio album. Former band: Kyuss.

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

1976. Became one of ABBA's most successful albums to date.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

1969. They recorded the album just as they were getting to know each other.

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

1994. Second and final album. Catalyst for the eclectic San Diego music scene and the emerging national emo scene of the 1990s.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

1978. Third studio album after two unsuccesful albums. Documents the band's deterioration as well as the singer's declining mental state.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

1978. Experimental rock.

Ramones

2/5

1976. Debut studio album. Took only 7 days to record. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential punk albums of all time, and it had a significant impact on other genres of rock music, such as grunge and heavy metal. Violence, drug use, relationship issues, humor, and Nazism were prominent in the album's lyrics.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

1971. Their best selling album. Inner sleeve has 4 hand drawn symbols that each represent a band member.

Foo Fighters

4/5

1995. Debut studio album. Former Nirvana's drummer (Dave Grohl) wrote the entire album after Kurt Cobain's suicide. Considered to have established the post-grunge genre.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

1974. The band experimented and explored new creativity while making the album.

1999

Prince

3/5

1982. Seen as Prince's breakthrough album.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

1983. Their most commercially successful release.

The Doors

4/5

1967. Debut studio album. Has since been recognized as a landmark of psychedelic rock and one of the most influential albums of the 1960s. Robby Krieger had only been playing the electric guitar for a few months when he was invited to become a member of the band.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

2002. Diverse array of subject matter, mostly melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. Title character is inspired by musician Yoshimi. Not intended to be a concept album.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

1991 Recorded at nineteen different studios.

The United States Of America

1/5

1968. Approach reflecting an anti-establishment, leftist political stance. Album got popular after the band broke up after it's release.