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Album	You	Global	Diff
Gris Gris	5	2.88	+2.12
In A Silent Way	5	3.61	+1.39
Remain In Light	5	3.67	+1.33
Felt Mountain	4	3	+1

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Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Real good. Great production. Could cut off the last few songs and it might be better, but the run through the middle of the album is killer. I don't know enough about the genre to speak definitively, but hard for me to imagine a much better version of what this is.

2 likes

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American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

The hits are good ("Hurt" in particular). Pleasant listening. The covers of super well known songs (Desperado, In My Life, Bridge Over Troubled Waters) seem unnecessary. A little boring overall.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Side one is fantastic. Ballads on side 2 get a little samey and a little over-orchestrated for my taste.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Very good, fun record. The hits are great, but also very little filler. Maybe not much to come back to except to throw on playlists?

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Fantastic. Starts perfect through first 3 tracks. Slows down little by the end, but all great.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

This feels like a "vibes" kind of record and for whatever reason I'm not on their wavelength. Fine for background at a dinner party, but not something I'm going to listen to.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

The hits are great, especially waiting for the bus. The rest is solid, but not especially memorable blues rock.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Some good tracks (don't believe the hype was a favorite). More flava flav than I expected. Kind of exhausting to listen to the whole thing.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Quirky 90s pop-rock. Not really my thing. Some unusual stuff maintains interest a little, but just not enough there for me to grab onto.

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

Never heard of them. Ska? Nah. Our house? That song from insurance commercials? Nah. Not on Spotify? Nah. But.... This was actually pretty great. Saw it compared to the Kinks Village Green preservation society, and that seems about right. Catchy, nostalgic songs about English life, with a sense of humor. Not really any duds in the bunch. Good stuff.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

5/5

Awesome. Loved this one a long time. The vibe is perfect.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Really enjoyed it. Another very British record. A little more Kinksy than I expected. May need to go back to it to see how it sounds a second time.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Near perfect. Great as background or close listening. Just awesome

Dare!

The Human League

4/5

Interesting. This seems like the ultimate synth heavy early 80s album. It was pretty great, although vocals are so front and center in the mix it's hard to ignore how dumb the lyrics sometimes are.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Tough to rate. I liked it, but it also sort of faded into the background while I was listening. Very cool vibe. Nice vocals. Should be a bond theme.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

This is great for what it is, but I feel like I've heard the hits more than enough for my lifetime, and the rest is good and well-played, but mostly not my style. A little too soft-rocky, maybe.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

pretty great. rocked more than i thought it would. may need another listen to be sure i liked it that much.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Some great bits, especially the title track is incredible, but not loving everything.

Django Django

3/5

Not objectionable, really, but not great. Maybe I'd vaguely heard of this band, but had no idea what to expect. To put it in the worst way... like Mumford & Sons, plus bleeps and bloops. Animal Collective + Americana. Better than it could have been, but sounded silly on occasion.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Interesting. A little too subdued for long stretches. May take a few listens to fully absorb and may grow on me more. Really liked "Go or Go Ahead"... Sound alike Radiohead a bit.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Weird. Kinda sounds like captain beefheart. Can't say I loved it, but it's the kind of thing that takes more than one listen. Not sure I'll give it that. There were a couple tracks that were kind fun... Wine spodyody especially

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

Pretty cool. jammier than I thought it would be. Not sure it's in the permanent rotation.

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

More to enjoy than I thought (particularly uptempo tunes had some cool hard-ass grooves), but gets exhausting, then intolerable as it goes on.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Good! A few songs I hadn't heard on here that were good. Not great 100% of the way through but Fame is a classic and a few others.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

It's good. I love Neighborhood 3 (Powers Out). There's just enough songs that don't really do anything for me that I always tune out. Maybe some more listens would help, but I probably wont.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Cool. I've heard most of these a million times. The ones I hadn't were fine, but I'm not going crazy about them.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Eh, didn't finish it. I found the music kind of boring and offputting for some reason, outside a couple songs. I'm sure the lyrics are good, but did not do it for me.