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Album	You	Global	Diff
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	5	3.07	+1.93
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.1	+1.9
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.18	+1.82
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.3	+1.7
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	5	3.35	+1.65
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	5	3.4	+1.6
Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry	4	2.7	+1.3
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon	4	2.86	+1.14
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	4	2.86	+1.14
The Sun Rises In The East Jeru The Damaja	4	2.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	2	3.78	-1.78
Play Moby	2	3.46	-1.46
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	2	3.35	-1.35
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	2	3.32	-1.32
Marcus Garvey Burning Spear	2	3.19	-1.19
The Rising Bruce Springsteen	2	3.05	-1.05
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	2	3.02	-1.02
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	2	3	-1

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Close To The Edge

Yes · 1 likes

5/5

I love prog. Can’t decide on my least favourite track on Close to the Edge.

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Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

First song is grating. It doesn’t get better. I misremembered Let love rule as an enjoyable song. I rarely pay attention to lyrics but these sound very primitive.

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Nice, listened two it twice in a row.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Take On Me and The Sun Always Shines on T.V. stand out.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Reading how the band was formed helps with making sense of the introductory “Monk Time”. Nowadays this album doesn’t have a shocking/revolutionary effect, so that’s hard to judge. I appreciate the Hammond organ. With some more repetition I’ll probably value this album just as much as the Beatles b-sides from this time. The bonus tracks (not included in the rating) are alright, they are intentionally more tame.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

I‘m indoctrinated by regular exposure during my teenage years.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Wasn’t in the mood today, fine background tunes. I did not detract a point for Morrissey as a person.

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Another three attempts at the famous Graceland album… to me it’s cohesive and an easy listen. But it doesn’t reach any particular heights. Most of the instrumentals are good. I’m eagerly awaiting Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album.

Roxy Music

4/5

Slaps right from the start. Then the second song sounds like an intro and the rest of the album washes over me. I couldn’t care less for the singing, but it would probably get boring without the vocals.

The Stooges

3/5

I wanna be your dog didn’t even stand out to me :(

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

Sounds great, my kind of thing. I didn’t know how varied her music is, and different from the radio hits Manchild, Woman and 7 Seconds.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Joni Mitchell is like a bad Billy Joel. The lyrics of “The Same Situation” made me angry. Having been an influential album 50 years ago is not enough for me. And I’m usually partial to singer/songwriters.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Each of the four tunes hangs around a bit too long without enough changes. It probably works better if experienced as the live jam session in a club that it is. Or as background music, but not as focused listening experience on an early morning.

Fred Neil

3/5

Fine for what it is. The last instrumental track tries its hardest to be good or skilled music, without success. It almost tanked the rating.

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

People do be having sex

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

I usually don’t care for English rap lyrics or pay close attention to them. For this album I read along and can appreciate them on a technical level. Everything else is excellent.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Mostly not very enjoyable to listen to. Spotify recommends a “dark, theatrical cabaret music” playlist alongside the album, and that is an apt description. Funny enough I didn’t notice that the album is almost an hour long. In the Colosseum and Goin’ Out West (the only song I already knew) were the stand out tracks.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Unremarkable

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

First track 5 mics. Second track outstanding chill. Third track groovy. Trumpet solos are tolerable. Didn’t keep more notes on the remaining tracks.

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

I love prog. Can’t decide on my least favourite track on Close to the Edge.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Might have hit differently if I had grown up to this album. The worst first 20 seconds of any song called Wake Up.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

4/5

BEYONCÉ does not quite reach my threshold for a 4-star album. But I want to elevate it from the average stuff I put in the 3-star bucket. Good production and no filler track.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

I’m not the first to say this, but there’s no reason to listen to this album instead of a “best of ABBA singles” playlist. Dancing Queen, Knowing Me Knowing You, Money Money Money are bops though.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

No standouts to me but good hip hop

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

I was sceptical before and throughout, but after all I enjoyed the album.

Play

Moby

2/5

You can discover far better artists in the genre these days.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

Fun

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

ELO has a rather unique style. Whenever they come up on the radio they annoy me more often than not. But as an album I will return to them in the future.

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5