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James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
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Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
3
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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
Very talking heads
4
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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Some classic songs, may contain traces of cultural appropriation
4
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Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
Couple of great tracks, some seem indulgent
3
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Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Seminal blues/rock, but a bit samey
3
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Deep and meaningful
5
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Seminal hip-hop/rock but a bit samey
4
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In It For The Money
Supergrass
In it for the money is ok single (80% is outro), but would I be sad if I had died without hearing it? No
2
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C'est Chic
CHIC
Happy Man and At Last I Am Free are hidden gems
4
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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
Not bad but not special. Mid afternoon at a festival
3
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
Pretty good
4
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Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
Eccentric and over the top but some sort of genius
4
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Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
A bit samey but very enjoyable
4
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Clandestino
Manu Chao
Lots of short songs, not bad but didn't engage me
3
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Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Sorry only 3 tracks on Spotify
3
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Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
Poptastic
3
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In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
World class
5
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Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
Solid hip hop
4
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...And Justice For All
Metallica
Not my metallic cup of tea
DNF
2
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16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
Strumtastic. Nothing special
2
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Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
atmospheric alt rock
4
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You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
Rocky
3
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If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
Mellow, nice
3
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Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
Pretty good example of 80s dark synth work
3
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Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
3
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Headquarters
The Monkees
Lots of very short songs. Bring back the 2 minute single...
3
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Rio
Duran Duran
Bangers all the way 10/10
5
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Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Put it in your pocket full of cupcakes
5
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First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
Weak indy
3
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
5
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Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
Classy soul
4
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Make Yourself
Incubus
Awful. Couldn't finish it. Indulgent Cali-rock
1
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Trafalgar
Bee Gees
I can see why it's on the list but not my cup of tea really
3
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
Great, but hoping 'kind of blue' is on here too
4
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Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
Pretty good indie. Extra star for having two xylophone solos in Gone Daddy Gone
4
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A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
Not my favourite Beatles album but still classic
NB 13 songs, 30 minutes. More like this please modern people....
4
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The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
Good tunes
3
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Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
Magnificent. 'Maybe your baby' is pretty much the first part of Prince's career in 6:50...
5
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Bummed
Happy Mondays
OK, bit boring in hindsight
3
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
Nice beats, dodgy lyrics
4
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Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
pretty good
3
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Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
Seminal but too long
3
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Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
Not best but good
3
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Fragile
Yes
Not as bad as Incubus, but still does my head in with no redeeming features
2
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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
Non-toxic masculinity
3
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Document
R.E.M.
Alt art rock. Pleasant enough
3
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Diamond Life
Sade
Where are my ski pants and shoulder pads?
4
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The Yes Album
Yes
Actually not bad, if you don't mind the high pitched voice
3
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
Lush sounds, very smooth, not really my cup of tea but not awful
3
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Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
Excellent...
4
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Long. Triple album long. Not bad but samey...
3
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Band On The Run
Paul McCartney
Very clever man, that McCartney...
4
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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
Great
4
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Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
I can see the appeal but not quite to my taste. Would see live...
3
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Superunknown
Soundgarden
Grunge rock. Not bad song-by song, but long & samey...
3
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Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
Great garage band. Excellent cover of 'The Night Time is the Right Time'. 12 songs in 29 minutes gets bonus points...
4
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Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
Pretty enjoyable, even if the title track isn't on the Spotify version
3
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Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
Morrissey is a bit of a dick now, but this is a classic
4
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Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
ok
3
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
4
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Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
Excellent
4
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Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
2 classic covers
4
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Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
Very enjoyable
4
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Tommy
The Who
some classics on here but pretty long...
3
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Scum
Napalm Death
Not exactly my cup of tea, but I can see the appeal in the right room. Includes the worlds shortest song, so well done for that...
3
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The Only Ones
The Only Ones
The missing link between pubrock and post-punk. More about PP here... https://deserter.co.uk/2020/09/only-one-peter-perrett/
3
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Good singer, conscious funky soul
Oh and pay your taxes Bono, sorry, Lauryn...
3
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Shadowland
k.d. lang
lovely voice, subversive then, unsurprising now...
4
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Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
3
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Interesting...
3
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
Girl power
3
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She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
Some good, some ok, not life changing
3
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My Generation
The Who
Interesting mix of covers (James Brown, blues), pop and their own developing voice
3
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Knows his stuff
4
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Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3
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White Ladder
David Gray
Not bad blue eyed soul
3
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There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
5
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Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
3
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
I like a re-mix/edit as much as anyone, but this is tedious. Sounds like it was done by AI rather than humans...
1
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Central Reservation
Beth Orton
Up my street
4
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Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Only two songs on spotify but I liked them
3
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Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
Enjoyably rawky
3
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
2
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Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
Smooth
3
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
Classic
5
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Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
Smooth and soulful
3
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Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
Would dance to some of, but generally slick and solipsistic
3
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
Largely excellent
4
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I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard and Linda Thompson
Couple of lovely tracks here (calvary cross and IWTSTBLT)
3
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Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
Very gentle. The Roy Orbison of Sheffield...
3
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Pretenders
Pretenders
Ah yes, I remember it well...
4
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Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
Only two tracks on Spotify but very good ambient
3
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
Classy pop
3
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Greetings From L.A.
Tim Buckley
Very west coast, not your usual Buckley, not bad..
3
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
Pompous
2
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Not bad, would give it 3.5 if I could
3
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
3
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Nixon
Lambchop
Interesting, would watch at a festival
4
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Queen II
Queen
No, thank you. The algorithm followed this up with Spinal Tap, which seems appropriate
1
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Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Groovy but a bit much after a while
3
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3
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I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Interesting
3
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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
4
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
A bit pompous
3
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The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Love Scorpio, rest a bit dated or meh. I remember The Message seeming a bit mainstream even when it came out
3
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Pump
Aerosmith
Not offensive but not really adding anything to my life
2
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4
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Fever Ray
Fever Ray
Interesting but not compelling
3
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
3
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A Wizard/A True Star
Todd Rundgren
Not great for me
2
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Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
I'll get my long coat...
3
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Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
Would be one star if it wasn't for 'Elected'
2
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Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
3
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
good of its kind but gave birth to too many youth jazz band versions of Watermelon Man...
3
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American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
Hurt is great, and he is an icon but not much musically
3
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That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
groovy but not special
3
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The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
Would do 3.5 if I could
3
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Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
I like the production
3
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Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
3
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Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
This seems like the nineteenth LC album this site has sent me. I'm sure it's great and he's sincere but not what I wanted for my birthday
2
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
I think we are lucky to have Damon
5
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Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
3