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Album	You	Global	Diff
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.2	+1.8
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
The Clash The Clash	5	3.54	+1.46
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.58	+1.42
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	5	3.64	+1.36
Pearl Janis Joplin	5	3.73	+1.27
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.74	+1.26
Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine	4	2.75	+1.25
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.77	+1.23
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	1	2.79	-1.79
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.79	-1.79
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Definitely Maybe Oasis	2	3.52	-1.52
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	2	3.29	-1.29
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	3	4.26	-1.26
In It For The Money Supergrass	2	3.23	-1.23
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	2	3.08	-1.08
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	2	5

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Ramones

4/5

The Ramones!!! I know every word (not that there are that many). Jesse Covington took me to see them at the Masquerade. I think it was their last tour, though we didn’t know it at the time. Drivin n Cryin opened. I was 15 or 16, it was summery sunny but not hot. Jesse Covington was in love with me and we could not get enough of that three-chord noise. When I think about how special it was to grow up in Atlanta, this day comes to mind. I would have told you at the time, it was one of the best days of my life.

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Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Terrific for a (nearly) autumn Saturday afternoon. Can feel my spirit noodling around with the rifts. I love the interplay between the crisp guitar and smooth sax and the belly sound of the organ. Playful and wise, loose in the shoulder joints. Very nice.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

This album is very famous among my UK and European pals and I know some of the songs well, but I’ve never listened to the whole thing in a shot. I really like it. I can sense how it would have been in everyone’s speakers that summer and beyond, but I can’t totally find my heart in it.

Ramones

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

It’s angsty and the layered guitars are only barely this side of sane - but SP always find beauty and melody. Billy Corgan’s voice is part android, part alien. What an album.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Winehouse is an icon, with mythic tragedy that surpasses her art. There are some good songs here, and I’ll have Back to Black in my head for a month, but it’s a little underwhelming.

Violent Femmes

4/5

This album brings me so much joy. Impossible not to wiggle and sing along. The wiggliest album yet.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Really enjoyed this. They have an easy confidence - not afraid to try out new sounds or be a little weird or dark or sad. Seems like an album that I’ll like more and more on future listening. Let’s see!

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

1/5

I have a feeling I’m missing part of the puzzle here. That I haven’t seen the film or gotten the references. As an album, it wasn’t always creepy and unpleasant, but it sometimes was, and I’ve forgotten the rest.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Love this

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Excellent. One of my favourite pop albums of all time,

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

One of the first albums I ever truly, truly loved. Many old friends here. Overall, the album is more poignant than I remember - not every song, but many. Sad if you’re happy. Comforting if you’re sad. Take comfort in your friends.

The Band

4/5

Love their warm brown sound. Want to listen to the album more and get to know the songs that are less familiar. Until then, I’m giving this 3.5, rounding up.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

2/5

I usually like sneering, hirsute rockers, but some of these lyrics are unforgivably bad. I liked them as a teenager but in hindsight not so much.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

I tried listening to this but didn’t get very far.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Surprising myself, I found this kind of soothing. They know what they’re doing and exactly how to do it. If I had to hire a band for world domination, a band that could get the job done, U2 would be a top candidate.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

4/5

Love this - hip hop, bossa nova, electronica fusion. Really inventive and interesting.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Absolute perfection.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Sweet vocals, but find the overall sound a little boring.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Glad to have listened to this. Like hearing how he is trying out new things to find his own sound. Thought he sounded a bit like Van Morrison on some of these tracks.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

Okay, but didn’t leave much of an impression.

Gorillaz

3/5

Holds up better than I expected. Enjoyed listening, good nostalgia factor.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Is it weird I’ve never heard of this band? Sounds like the kind of thing I used to listen to a lot.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Hard to argue against any of this.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Loved this, and never heard it before. Didn’t imagine I’d be offering up a precious 5 to an album I didn’t previously know, but here we are. I can’t get enough of it.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Not my favourite Stevie, but very likeable.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

A Cure album that, as ever, makes me happy to be listening to The Cure, but also slightly wishing I was listening to another Cure Album.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Classic

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Enjoyed revisiting this. Overall the album is poppier than I remember. There are some great tracks and her voice is extraordinary.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

A real mood lifter. Loved this.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Love this. The sound is both contemporary (thank you Danger Mouse) and classic. I suspect in another five years I’ll be giving this five stars - let’s see if it holds up as well as it has so far (I think it will). For now a hopeful four. Will gladly listen again and again for now.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Excellent - a portal to another time

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

I wasn’t that excited when this one came up, but really loved listening to it. I underestimated you, Billy Joel! So many good songs, all the better for being familiar (some very) yet seeming new.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Amazing album. The only blemish is Waking the Witch, which I found almost unlistenable. But then again its presence here also serves as a reminder that Kate Bush can do whatever the hell she wants.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Masterful and timeless. Always find something new in this album.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Love this album!

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

I wish I had discovered My Bloody Valentine in high school - they would have linked up nicely with my obsessions with Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins (and are much better than some of the other bands I listened to). This might have been 5 stars if it had a true nostalgia factor for me, but it doesn’t. When You Wake, You’re Still in a Dream is such a great song.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

So sad - and this is his ‘upbeat’ album. I like Nick Drake and all of his tragic genius, but for me it is more about a few standout songs than an album I want to listen to again and again. 3.5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

Could not stand Emerson Lake and Palmer - that first song seemed to take up half the time I have left to live in the world. I made it as far as #4 and gave up.

The Clash

5/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Listening to this album makes me feel young and tough. Watch out, you might get a bloody nose.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Six stars

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

I find myself rediscovering Beach House every few years. I always find this album moves me and soothes me, and give it a couple of turns on repeat. For some reason they always make me think of Scandinavia.