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Album	You	Global	Diff
American Gothic David Ackles	5	2.48	+2.52
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	5	3.13	+1.87
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.31	+1.69
Live Through This Hole	5	3.32	+1.68
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.33	+1.67
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.33	+1.67
Debut Björk	5	3.39	+1.61
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Roots Sepultura	1	2.79	-1.79
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.56	-1.56
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	1	2.54	-1.54
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	1	2.45	-1.45
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.34	-1.34
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.22	-1.22
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	2	3.08	-1.08
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	2	3.07	-1.07

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

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Are there an awful lot of prog rock albums on this list or is the algorithm frontloading them because it hates me, specifically? Either way, you can keep making me listen to them but apparently you can't make me like them.

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I didn't enjoy this one.

Lives up to the hype - perfect.

Almost comically 1990s

One of the albums on this project where my struggle between rating objective quality or enjoyment of the listening experience was sharpest but the brutal, relentlessly unpleasant slog of this listening experience won out. Hated every second of it.

You really told those hippies, Frank.

I'm too firmly millennial not to give this five stars.

Not at all as bad as some of the other reviews make it seem. Kind of a spikier, more chaotic Fleet Foxes vibe.

Amazed at how much I didn't hate this, given the experience of listening to a Mothers of Invention album previously.

Immediate five stars for the opening song and that banger ending line: 'they suffer least who suffer what they choose'. One of the albums that make this whole project worthwhile: something I might never have listened to or even heard of otherwise, but whose influence you instantly hear in better-known artists.

It's amazing how this 1001 albums project has improved my feelings on almost every genre of music except for prog rock. I am on my knees, begging the generator to generate me no more prog rock. I cannot take another meandering guitar album of abstruse lyrics yowled into a mic.

A sweet, easy-to-listen-to sort of album.

I don't know how to describe this album other than immersive - the auditory equivalent of a John Ford film. Lovely voice and great storytelling, but I did get bored by halfway through.

I wanted to like it much more than I did.

Does this sound very turn-of-the-millennium? Well, yeah, but it's not a crime for an album to sound like the year it came out and there are enough Extremely Seventies albums on this list with very high ratings to prove that. Maybe it's my incurable millennial cringe but I still think there are some lovely songs here.

An album I admired more than enjoyed.

Not spectacular, but I'd throw it on again as background music to work to. Open Up is the standout track.

Love the Boss but this is not his finest work.