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Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figure 8 | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| Sheer Heart Attack | 5 | 3.65 | +1.35 |
| Tracy Chapman | 5 | 3.78 | +1.22 |
| Bug | 4 | 2.92 | +1.08 |
| Wild Gift | 4 | 3 | +1 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vulgar Display Of Power | 1 | 2.97 | -1.97 |
| Exodus | 2 | 3.94 | -1.94 |
| Surfer Rosa | 2 | 3.5 | -1.5 |
| From Elvis In Memphis | 2 | 3.36 | -1.36 |
| The White Album | 3 | 4.18 | -1.18 |
| Elvis Is Back | 2 | 3.18 | -1.18 |
| Your Arsenal | 2 | 3.05 | -1.05 |
5-Star Albums (3)
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Louis Prima
I will not tell you how many songs in I was when I realized that Louis Prima voiced the orangutan king in The Jungle Book (facepalm). But this is my kind of cooking music! I particularly like the vocal quality of the female singer (Keely Smith I’m guessing?) and the harmony sections. Remarkable how many of these songs start with nearly the exact same walking bass line from the piano, just in different keys (listen to the first few seconds of #1, #3 and #6). There was an Italian grocery store down the street from our last apartment in Long Island and this is very much the type of music they played, so it was a nostalgic listen. Final thought - did “gigolo” mean something different in 1956?
14 likes
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith was a big influence on my favorite artist (Ben Folds), so naturally I hear a lot of similarities between the two of them, but listening to this album I can hear the influence he might have had on even more indie artists that followed him (The Shins, Deathcab, Bon Iver, Fountains of Wayne). I read he was a big fan of the Beatles, which totally comes through in his sound (“Pretty Mary Kay” especially, for me)...at times this album even felt like a darker, more contemporary Simon & Garfunkel (though I didn’t find anything to suggest he emulated them specifically). Overall I really enjoyed listening to this album. Hard to choose a favorite song, but right now I’m really felling “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud” & “Can’t Make a Sound.”
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