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Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	5	3.39	+1.61
Third Soft Machine	4	2.45	+1.55
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	4	2.69	+1.31
Grace Jeff Buckley	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Shaft Isaac Hayes	1	3.25	-2.25
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.84	-1.84
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	2	3.81	-1.81
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
The Cars The Cars	2	3.65	-1.65
Young Americans David Bowie	2	3.62	-1.62
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	2	3.5	-1.5
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	2	3.4	-1.4
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	2	3.38	-1.38
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	2	3.35	-1.35

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The Cars

The Cars · 1 likes

2/5

A bit too zany 70/80's for me

Abbey Road

Beatles · 1 likes

4/5

Can't deny I found it pretty good. Octopus's Garden and Here Comes the Sun pushed it higher for me but several others I found ho-hum.

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Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Lots of interesting sounds and life. Just not my jam though

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

2/5

Oh George. This one never hooked me.

Common

3/5

Good sounds in the songs but didn't go beyond that for me

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

I liked this more than their Eliminator album. The songs sounded more differenter from each other.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

This was a groovy little carpet ride

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Lot of these albums seem similar. Does the 1001 albums guy have 70's nostalgia? This was all 'meh' for me, except the epic outro in the last song, which bumped it from 2 to 2.49!

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

This is prob objectively a good album, just beyond my depth to truly appreciate

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

This was pretty good. Though not what I expected; I thought Bowie would be um, weirder. I did like in the title track the part where he beat the hell out of out of the piano for like 2 minutes. That was cool.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Apparently I'm a Janis Joplin fan

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Couldn't get myself to pay attention to it

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Eh alright - 3

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Verrrry close to 5 for me

The Doors

3/5

Man, The Doors has such a unique sound (cue keyboard).

Joanna Newsom

2/5

I don't know what this is but I'm giving it a 2. And I cannot explain it but feel if I listened to it 10 more times I'd give it a 5.

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Got dat discqo ball beat. I just ain't no huge disco fan.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

If you play it at 1.5x speed it sounds like disco.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Good, but imho not the best of the Cure

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Did not enjoy it much, but nice to hear what The Who sound like.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

Diff Elvis than the Costello I expected. Not mind-blowingly my great, but I actually enjoyed it.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

4/5

That journey was great and full of many adventures. Listened to twice in a row.

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Sry

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Get it, Aretha.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Same Dylan story: +++ for lyrics, --- for sound (sorry, Bob).

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

4/5

This was fresh all get out!

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Not sure how this was super influential, esp in 1999, but I did like the earnest somewhat sad singing.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Got dat mm-funk.

The Cars

2/5

A bit too zany 70/80's for me

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

The Zutons are groovy like crutons

Third

Soft Machine

4/5

This was pretty friggin weird and cool. Gotta let it seep in.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

Strangely, this sounds like the sound of TV on the Radio.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Good ole Zed Leppelin.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Had some really interesting naturisticifical moments. But also lots of eh. Still neither of my two favorite songs of hers.

John Prine

3/5

Plum good listenin'.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

Neat brass. Just kinda liked other, more low-key jazz stuff more.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

It's objectively better than a 2 but it all just sounded so much the same.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

I liked the sounds of this band's groove du-wops more for some reason than others from this era.

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Their songs start so strong. Then the singing and other things happen. It's like a cheese grater that takes in a perfectly good block of cheese and outputs eel guts.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

IMHO something a little otherworldly about him. I.e. Corpus Christi: may not be your jam, but such a good performance. There's a Jimmy Eat World song with lyrics, "A song for a heart so big, God wouldn't let it live". Dunno if I agree or not, but makes you think about people who die too young.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

This seems like it wanted to stand out, but just could not to me. Nifty splash blam bonk bazoom older rock, but it never bounced itself out of the box where I tend to put this genre of music.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

This grew on me as I listened. Not a lot but a little. Seemed pretty relaxing and original.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

IMHO this was one of the best albums ever. Basically every song is great from start to end.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Don't like this as much as -- I think -- some of his newer albums. But he has a pretty high floor for me. His music has unique feel and creativity.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

I really like how much Janis Joplin gets after it.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Good zest.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

1/5

70's noir action movie background music. Oh, it actually is a movie soundtrack. Making this a 1 to protest its inclusion, or at least, the fact it was included but no Bill Conti Rocky soundtracks were also included.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Sometimes I felt like I was listening to Dracula but kind of enjoyed it.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Can't deny I found it pretty good. Octopus's Garden and Here Comes the Sun pushed it higher for me but several others I found ho-hum.

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Ehhhhhh. After 2-3 albums I still don't quite understand Bowie's genre.