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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tonight's The Night	5	3.23	+1.77
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	5	3.3	+1.7
The Velvet Underground	5	3.54	+1.46
Born To Run	5	3.64	+1.36

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim	2	3.26	-1.26

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Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

There are no tears for Danny Whitten or Bruce Berry here, only a wised-up, hard-bitten rue. But there is some consolation amidst the loss, and it builds across the tuneful Mellow My Mind/Roll Another Number/Albuquerque heart of the record, which gave me a lifelong love of the pedal-steel guitar. I have listened to this record more than any other by a wide margin.

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Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Catchy melodies and tight playing but an overall experience that is square to the core. This sure isn’t “Tonight’s the Night,” or the bad-boy Stones. If this band has a future, it’s in “Money,” the only song here with an edge.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Not the mopey lugubriousness I expected. Liked the urgency of the playing, the way the songs build in counterpoint with the studiously unperturbed vocal and the dash of sly wit. Would give it 3.5 stars if I could.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

Literate hard core from a band that hit its marks like a soul act. Not many bands could pull off this level of precision in a single take. Who in the world went to their shows? Rating capped at 3 because I only listened to the first two sides.

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Plenty here that’s interesting, but they’d get a higher adjusted r-squared if they removed a few variables. 2.5 stars

The Velvet Underground

5/5

My favorite of their four records

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

I was looking forward to putting the needle down on “Thunder Road” all day long. The record that made The Boss a star, and deservedly so.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Electric guitar is a good thing, but the old saying was right after all: you really can have too much of one.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Holds up spectacularly well on a first listen in years after touting it to one and all upon its release. Restive and off-kilter but always compelling. There’s a conventional song somewhere inside “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart;” thankfully the band and the producer stuck to their guns to give us this one.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

2/5

A lack of affect isn’t necessarily fatal for a vocalist — David Byrne built a hugely successful band around it — but this isn’t the right material for Ms. Pfaffgen.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Every bit as precious as the title suggests. Give me Mrs. Miller singing the praises of the bossa nova over this any day.