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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Blueprint JAY Z	5	3.19	+1.81
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.54	+1.46
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits	5	3.73	+1.27

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	1	3.42	-2.42
Vespertine Björk	1	3.18	-2.18
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	2	3.55	-1.55
American Gothic David Ackles	1	2.49	-1.49
Butterfly Mariah Carey	1	2.48	-1.48
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	2	3.38	-1.38
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
NEU! 75 Neu!	2	3.1	-1.1
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	2	3.08	-1.08
Savane Ali Farka Touré	2	3.03	-1.03

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Paul Simon

3/5

Couple of songs on here - Mother and Child Reunion and Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard are great. The rest just don't break through like those two do. It's his first album after breaking up with Garfunkel, so he's finding his new solo sound maybe? It's a Sunday morning kind of album. Slow, easy going.

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Interesting covers and a more mature sound than a lot of what I think of when I think of early Beatles music. Given about half of this album are covers, that may be why I feel this is "grown up" versus their other early stuff. Overall - 3.5 to 4 stars? It's early in my listening, so it's hard to put this on a scale!

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

You can tell Yellow is going to be a hit, and several other songs stand out as well. Very impressive for their first real album and after only a couple of years together. Not a lot of range on this album in their sound, but it's still one you can put on an listen all the way through.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Quirky (complimentary) album, and a nice concept to put together songs about events, places, and people from Illinois. One song, Casimir Pulaski Day, moved me to actual tears about a woman dying from bone cancer. These are real songs about actual "things" versus the usual rhymed, shallow lines about love, romance, and heartache that it's unlikely the singer actually felt. This actually feels like a work from the songwriter's heart - his real thoughts, struggles, and feelings put into lyrics.

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

I have not listened to many of these songs in years, and it's surprising how silly/goofy many of the lyrics are - ones I have been able to recite since the late 80s, but never reflected on how just inane they are. But it still works years later. This is a great album.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Listened to it while sitting on the porch. Nothing really broke through. Good songs, but not a record I'd go back to.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

This album gets a 5 for the first three songs alone - and the last song is just a bow on the gift of this record.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

1/5

Not my kind of music.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I like the blues sound underlying some of these tracks, and the loose sound of the album in general. I can see this playing the in background at a party, but none are songs that I can really retain after listening to the record.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Reminds me of Allison Krause in many ways. I loved the sound of many of these songs - particularly the ones that aren't stereotypical honky tonk sounding.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

2/5

Not my kind of music.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

couple of songs that broken through a bit, but mostly just a slow listen.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Surprised how much I liked the heavy guitar riffs of these guys. Of course I know ZZ Top's style, but it was refreshing to hear very strong musical talent on top of decently constructed lyrics.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

not like other albums so far (complimentary). But it's a little slow and melancholy for repeat listening for me.

Suede

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Maybe I'm missing something deeper, but it's just good? Not great - strong meh?

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Cover songs through and through. While I am a Willie fan, and he's one of the greatest songwriters of the past 100 years, I do not think an album of him singing covers of other artists songs is in the top 1000.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Sounds very 70s, which is a little complementary and a little negative. These aren't songs that stick with me. Probably going to go with 2 stars on this one.

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

4 stars...feels more like 3.5 stars if I could?

Elvis Presley

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

I was surprised by how much i didn't mind some of the later songs on this album. The first couple were not my style. The last one was interesting!

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

This is an atrocious record. I can't tell one song from another for a majority of the tracks. Not one song breaks through the noise as something original. Jesus, how is this is the top 1000???

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

Meh. It feels a bit like jazz, and I don't fully appreciate it.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

The music is polarizing, and I'm on the love side vs. hate. I get that it'd be tough to listen to this day in day out, but it's a nice change of pace, and I like the energy and the lyrics of many of these songs. Fairytale of New York is enough to give this album a 4.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

This felt too much like an over earnest Broadway singer. I cannot imagine listening to these songs a second time.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

there are some great songs on this album, some I still enjoy listening to today. While it's not quite a 5 star in my book, this album has some great lyrics, great harmonies by S&G, and fun songs to sing along to. If there were a 4.5 rating, this album would get that.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

I can see how this album may have had an influence on lots of artists after it came out, and it has a unique sound that I haven't heard before. That said, there didn't seem to be a lot of differentiation between the tracks, which I would like to have seen.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

5/5

Fantastic record. Real meaning in the lyrics. Mature topics discussed, real life experiences recalled, and all done in an honest frame. Plus some playful lyrics, too. This is a complete album. Perfect. No notes.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

A couple of good songs at the start of the album, ones that still get play today, but the rest is just middle-of-the-road stuff.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Talented singer for sure. Heartfelt songs - depth in the lyrics for many songs. But not one I'd listen to over and over again. 3 starts.

Gorillaz

3/5

This sold 7M copies? During Napster days? While I like some of the songs on here, I just don't see how that occurred. There are some tracks where guest vocals are brought in to make the songs more interesting, but what I want are songs that I'll remember after the album is done. This album has one song in that category. Going to need more songs than that to be a great one. Three stars.