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Album	You	Global	Diff
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	5	3.33	+1.67
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.67	+1.33
Let's Stay Together Al Green	5	3.76	+1.24
The Stranger Billy Joel	5	3.85	+1.15

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	1	3.49	-2.49
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.41	-2.41
Sea Change Beck	1	3.33	-2.33
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	1	3.15	-2.15
Before And After Science Brian Eno	1	3.08	-2.08
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	1	3.03	-2.03
Vauxhall And I Morrissey	1	2.96	-1.96
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	1	2.79	-1.79
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	1	2.75	-1.75
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	1	2.65	-1.65

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Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

More classic tracks than I realised. Pretty good album for their first album with a one armed drummer.

4 likes

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Smooth from start to finish. Laid back and chilled out, but still puts you in a happy mood.

1 likes

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Absolute classic. Non stop hits. Love the key changes. Probably the best album in a brilliant career.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (10)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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The Score

Fugees

4/5

Iconic album. Lauren Hill is a boss.

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

The Kinks

3/5

It's so interesting to listen to The Kinks and The Beatles alongside each other.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

5/5

Smooth from start to finish. Laid back and chilled out, but still puts you in a happy mood.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

One of the more mundane Elton albums. Pretty bland.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

Nothing particularly stood out.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

A good album, with some great tracks, but a little long and repetitive.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Wide ranging. Clear influences of drugs and Yoko and all the various life stages they were going through. A classic.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Original hip hop. Laid back.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Masterful crescendos throughout the album. Doesn't even include my favourite Dusty song, but it's a ripper of an album.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

1/5

Smooth, but bland. Maybe they were better once Neil Young joined.

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

It's fine for the elevator or going to bed.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

I think this album is probably better than Blood Sugar Sex Magic. Well rounded, rockers and cruisy vibes, but it all flows.

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Starts with a bang, but then just seems to drift.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Some iconic tracks. Primed for samples.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

More classic tracks than I realised. Pretty good album for their first album with a one armed drummer.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

1/5

Short songs that don't seem complete. Hard to get into, I feel like I would like them if they wrote complete songs.

The xx

4/5

I was surprised how much I liked this album. Not a band I normally go out of my way to listen to, but this is a great well rounded album.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Considered a higher score. Love the music and while it's metal there's still some good melodies. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Solid album. Some epic songs. It's fascinating to me the variation in Lennon and McCartney's songwriting style, it feels like your feeling different influences coming through even if both were credited.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Foot stompers.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

Just not my thing.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

Teetering on a 4. There's something about electro from bands that came out of the 90's that's just better.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Maybe I'm just generous because I'm really into this style of music at the moment. Would be good to know if I think the same in 3 years.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Would listen to this band again

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Absolute classic. Non stop hits. Love the key changes. Probably the best album in a brilliant career.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Easy going catchy folk

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

Great songs, but they're mostly covers right - so can't really award stars for that.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

1/5

Not for me.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

Dylanesque. Bit bland.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Not bad, not that special

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Didn't know much of their work before this, not too bad.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Haven't heard of Thundercat before. Really good music and I'll be listening going forward, but nothing stood out.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Some goodies, some are a bit bland. Not sure it's REM's best.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

Might have been evolutionary for hip hop, but not my jam.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

1/5

Average

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

1977

Ash

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Classic, Coldplay's best is still their first.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

This is a pretty good album and uncovered a lot of Steely Dan songs I didn't know - enjoy them more the more I listen. Maybe it deserved 4.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

I enjoyed this. When I started singing along to can't cry anymore, it had me wondering if I only liked songs that I knew and if the emotion was really nostalgia. Strong Enough my favourite.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

Classic. Great end to end story telling and extra points for the unique style.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

I find it hard to rate live albums against studio albums. This was thoroughly enjoyable, wish I was there.

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

I think I prefer when they went pop. I wonder how iconic this would be without the events of Cobain and Hole in 94, just another album maybe? Rock Star was my favourite.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

This album is fine, and pretty nice background music, but I didn't find anything iconic about it.

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

Not my favourite REM album. A bit bland really.

Sea Change

Beck

1/5

This is not why you listen to Beck.