User Albums Journey
Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time
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1970
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Hip-hop
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UK
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Perfectionist
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4
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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Pop
GAS
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5 | 2.53 | +2.47 |
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Tomorrow Belongs To Me
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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Argus
Wishbone Ash
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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Walls of Jericho
Helloween
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4 | 2.67 | +1.33 |
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Oceanic
ISIS
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4 | 2.71 | +1.29 |
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Norther
Ex-Easter Island Head
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4 | 2.78 | +1.22 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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A Complicated Woman
Self Esteem
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1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
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L'autre...
Mylène Farmer
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1 | 2.71 | -1.71 |
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Portishead
Portishead
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2 | 3.48 | -1.48 |
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Millennium
Backstreet Boys
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1 | 2.47 | -1.47 |
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TEKKNO
Electric Callboy
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1 | 2.45 | -1.45 |
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The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings
Louis Armstrong
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2 | 3.32 | -1.32 |
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Under The Pink
Tori Amos
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2 | 3.3 | -1.3 |
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Singles
Future Islands
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2 | 3.24 | -1.24 |
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Fully Completely
The Tragically Hip
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2 | 3.11 | -1.11 |
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Get Fucked
The Chats
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2 | 3.11 | -1.11 |
5-Star Albums (3)
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I was unfamiliar with ISIS before hearing this, so it came as a welcome surprise, and it is certainly the best of the User Albums I have heard so far. Reminding me very much of a more controlled mid-period Ufomammut, most of the songs follow a predictable pattern; slow start, build up, quiet bit in the middle, noisy ending. All of these are good things! As are the shouty, incomprehensible vocals (far preferable to screeching!). After two plays I would have given this a tentative 5 stars, were it not for the dreadful snare sound (it sounds like a wannabe tom; where’s the crunch?). Fabulous stuff overall, though.
One of my most vivid childhood memories is of watching SAHB perform Jacques Brel’s ‘Next’ on the Old Grey Whistle Test. Terrified and fascinated in equal measure, it was a few years later when I got to hear a full album, this one, and it’s been my favourite ever since. Several of their best tracks are on here, all performed with an irresistible hard glam swagger. And of course there was another unusual but exquisite cover version (the title track), taken from the musical ‘Cabaret’. Fantastic stuff!
Scanning the reviews I noticed several saying that the album is too long. This is a problem with ‘bonus’ versions as Argus was originally only 7 tracks long, making it much tighter than it may seem when streamed.
Anyway, whoever nominated this has reminded me what a great album it is from my youth, as Wishbone Ash had completely gone off my radar. I hear nothing prog about this album at all, just wonderful melodies and guitar interplay. The vocal harmonies also enhance the album’s pastoral feel (it’s much closer to Fairport Convention territory than Yes).
If I have one criticism, it is that the album’s weakest track is its first and its longest. I’d much rather have 5 minutes less of ‘Time Was’ and 5 minutes more of the sublime ‘Sometime World’.
Of the other tracks, ‘Blowin’ Free’ has a fantastic intro, the chorus of ‘Warrior’ really shouldn’t work but really does, ‘Throw Down the Sword’ ends the album with the most beautiful 2 minutes of twin guitar and ‘The King Will Come’ could be their best ever track.
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