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Album	You	Global	Diff
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	5	2.58	+2.42
Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	2.99	+2.01
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.07	+1.93
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	5	3.24	+1.76
Fragile Yes	5	3.32	+1.68
On The Beach Neil Young	5	3.46	+1.54
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.64	+1.36
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.67	+1.33
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.67	+1.33
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.68	+1.32

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Since I Left You The Avalanches	1	3.28	-2.28
Hypnotised The Undertones	1	3.06	-2.06
Bug Dinosaur Jr.	1	2.94	-1.94
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	1	2.87	-1.87
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	1	2.85	-1.85
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
Back to Mystery City Hanoi Rocks	1	2.69	-1.69
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.43	-1.43
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.4	-1.4

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Dire Straits	2	5

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Had this one on regular repeat in my teen years. Spent a huge amount of time learning to play Mood for a Day (badly) on guitar. Still a personal favorite album decades later.

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I'd probably love this if I were 19 rolling on molly at some underground rave, lol

I know and love this album well, but I'm always struck by the vocal harmonies of CSN/CSNY, and this album is a great example.

Better than I was expecting. The only song I was familiar with was the title track, which got radio play in the 70s. Blue Turk was a nice surprise.

This is pretty tedious and I'm just wanting it to be done. At least ETOH was basically tolerable.

My go-to Patti Smith albums for enjoyable listening are Wave and Gone Again; Horses was new to me and I found it a harder listen. It's just so raw, so visceral. Which is true of the albums I know as well, and maybe it's just a result of being better acquainted with them idk, but Horses was a less melodic listen somehow. Ultimately, like others have said Patti is more edgy poet than musician, especially here, and some level of discomfort is perhaps the point. The standout tracks for me were Free Money and Birdland. I'll definitely listen to this one again.

Hey, late 70s/early 80s was my era, so I don't hate the 80s sound like so many of the reviewers here. Still, this probably doesn't quite manage a 3.5 for me, despite the comforting familiarity of While You See a Chance, Arc of a Diver and Night Train.

Had this one on regular repeat in my teen years. Spent a huge amount of time learning to play Mood for a Day (badly) on guitar. Still a personal favorite album decades later.

Not a fan then. Not a fan now.

Except for Everyday People I thought this was mostly forgettable, having aged poorly. 2.5

I like to think that so many of his songs have been covered by other artists because they said to themselves, "I think I can sing this song better than that."

I've only heard this one once or twice before, and didn't know any of the tracks well enough to sing along, but it's solid. 4.5, rounded up

Why is adding white noise to music desirable? Mostly simple, uninteresting tunes that just faded into the background for me.

The Talking Heads cover (Heaven) just doesn't approach David Byrne's tongue-in-cheek delivery, and frankly doesn't work for me, but overall it's a nice album. Anyone not moved by Holding Back the Years simply has no soul, in my opinion.

Absolutely hate this twangy shit.

Best song: "Hate to Say I Told You So" but it still doesn't bump this album up to a 3 for me.

What was interesting as counter to Paul Simon just fades to humdrum on its own.

This was new to me, and might be a 4 with a few more listens.