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Album	You	Global	Diff
Third Soft Machine	5	2.45	+2.55
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Loretta Lynn	5	2.97	+2.03
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.65	+1.35
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	4	2.7	+1.3
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	4	2.86	+1.14
Leftism Leftfield	4	2.9	+1.1
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07
Infected The The	4	2.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.85	-1.85
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	2	3.46	-1.46
War U2	2	3.46	-1.46
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	2	3.39	-1.39
Parklife Blur	2	3.39	-1.39
Garbage Garbage	2	3.39	-1.39
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	2	3.29	-1.29
Darklands The Jesus And Mary Chain	2	3.23	-1.23
The Rise & Fall Madness	2	3.04	-1.04
Midnight Ride Paul Revere & The Raiders	2	3	-1

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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

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To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Ugh so good. The horns coming in on Wesley’s theory. The punch of king kunta. The off kilter instrumentation and wavering voice of u. Cohesive yet fresh at every turn, the live instrumentation feel paired with mixed flows and intonation and lyrics from Kendrick compliment each other to bring a whole new sound. 10/10

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Boom bap lives forever

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Heard many of the songs but never listened front to back until now. Just an incredibly cohesive sound...the BOOM BAP beats, the punchy, classic Biggie flows...a gem through and through.

The Doors

3/5

The album that defined the psych rock sound…but certainly not a perfect album by any means. What was it with these British bands poorly doing American country??

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

Feels like you’re at a baseball game

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Classic talking heads but I don’t think it’s their bedt

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Defining that 2000s sound huh? Listened to this in a particularly apt moment and it hit, but it’s a bit too moody for regular play

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

One of the strongest openings to an album ever. A couple duds later on but I truly think this is undeniably great

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Some good ones but Elton just isn’t all it for me

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

A generational album. 11/10

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

2/5

It’s aight. Not exactly my cup of tea, but high energy youth angst is a vibe, for sure

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Bowie always takes you on a journey. Not sure how much I like the glam rock opening, but a few of the songs (blackout, moss garden) really hit. Neukoln was a weird one.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

5/5

The best breakup album of all time?

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

A boo bop a de dip damn was really expecting myself to be over this one but turns out Elvis got piiiipes!

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Wow Jack white can carry an entire album, by himself. It’s amazing how cohesive the sound is but how unique every song is-never feels bogged down despite being two instruments the whole time. Underrated is how much work the drums do-Jack is so tight rhythmically on guitar and Meg has this lackadaisical out of the pocket feel that just brings enough tension to the mix that it’s wonderfully chaotic. Like each song is teetering on falling apart and yet carries the whole way through.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Cause I’m freeeeeeeeeeeeee as a birdddddddd…

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

4/5

Classic bey, eh? Big surprise was Blow, absolute banger that seemingly didn't get much airtime over the years. A jam tho

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

2/5

Glam! Okay but not my jam

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

This might have been good forty years ago? Kinda bland beatles/monkees knockoff. IDK why this is on the list, tbh.

Violent Femmes

3/5

good energy and some classic songs

Parklife

Blur

2/5

just not my cup of tea

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Maybe the libs need to bring this energy back huh

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

It’s like the Beatles meets u2 but not in the best way

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

I understand how this was a radical sound at the time but hip hop has been so fleshed out in the interim that most of the songs sound fairly rudimentary now. Some gems of course, but I was sick of it by the end

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

It’s amazing how much feeling and emotion Nina can bring out of a simple melody. Vocal power. Unbelievable.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

A good listen. A little sleepy at times but some gems, like early in the morning

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

This hits the boundary between fun and obnoxious and I think it’s over the obnoxious line. Our house is a classic of course, the rest not worth revisiting.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

High energy and pretty solid. Esp the opener. Def inspo for Automatic

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

Some classic bars on this one, dunno how I missed this growing up

Garbage

2/5

i mean peak grunge, incredibly well done but dunno if its a repeat play for me

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Aretha at it again. High energy, full of power and grace. Starting off with RESPECT gives into a rollercoaster of emotion anchored by aretha's voice, really the center of the record. On repeat forever

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

I just cannot get myself to love watermelon man but chameleon is such a good song and the rest of the album holds strong

War

2/5

The huts are obviously good but my god does the back half of this album suck! Also the remastered version version sounds like ass it’s like someone cranked a clarify slider all the way up but really it sounds like the whole band is playing in different rooms

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Love is in the air! It’s not as cutting edge as what’s going on but a solid, cohesive album. Turn down the lights, put this on, and invite your boo over

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

A classic through and through

Infected

The The

4/5

Had zero idea what to expect here and this was weird, over the top, and exceedingly well done.

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

Straight out of the John digweed era of epic trance trance trance. A bit intense but such a good listen. Makes me wanna grow up in that era

Third

Soft Machine

5/5

Holy shit this one is good! Lock in cause it's a journey through groove. 10/10, required front to back listen.