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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ray Of Light Madonna	5	3	+2
In Our Heads Hot Chip	5	3.1	+1.9
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	5	3.19	+1.81
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
Fragile Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
2112 Rush	5	3.38	+1.62
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.38	+1.62
Arrival ABBA	5	3.51	+1.49

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ctrl SZA	1	2.92	-1.92
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	1	2.69	-1.69
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	2	3.49	-1.49
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.39	-1.39
Nevermind Nirvana	3	4.37	-1.37
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37
There's A Riot Goin' On Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.29	-1.29
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	2	3.28	-1.28
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	2	3.26	-1.26

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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Once again discovering just how influential and old track like 'Mannish Boy' is. There's a lot of passion in Muddy Waters, I'll definitely listen to more.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I had no idea that Pastime Paradise inspired other songs, which is obvious. Very surprised to hear those strings, I wasn't expecting it at all.

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

I think I have a strange relationship with the Beatles. I adore some tracks, and others do absolutely nothing for me. Maybe I just haven't listened to them enough for it to 'click' with me. Many of the tracks are less than 3 minutes long, they don't give much time to really get into them. 35 minutes is a short album, it might just take more repeated listens. I'm enjoying hearing more of the influence of Ravi Shankar and Hindustani music in some tracks like Love You To.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Not necessarily the sort of punk that I'm really into. Guess I'll come back to it in the future and see how my tastes change.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

What Have I Done To Deserve This, and It's a Sin. Absolute bangers. The other tracks are good, but nothing quite so memorable.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

It may be The Who, but I also don't want to listen to 70 minutes of advertising, thanks.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Incredible, how have I never heard of this man and his music before? The Big Apple is an *excellent* track.

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

With these lyrics, I cannot imagine Ian Dury as anything but a creep. Different times, I know, but this album is clearly not for me.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

A few cool prison songs!

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Not bad, but nothing incredible.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

Only two key tracks stood out to me - Hanging out and hung up on the line, and Safesurfer. Which is honestly disappointing for a 2+ hour album.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Maybe back in the 70s opening with a track about kissing your teacher was a way to hook your listeners, right now for me it just seems a bit weird. That aside, the rest of the album doesn't fail to impress. Beyond just being classics, these are excellent tracks with rich and exciting vocals and colourful instrumentation. Lyrically they aren't exactly groundbreaking, but for 70s pop they are pretty great.

Boston

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

The pinnacle of prog rock?

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Much preferred this to their debut release. We Are The Pigs, and The Asphalt World are great tracks. Some of the slower songs didn't hit, such as Daddy's Speeding, but otherwise this is an improvement IMO.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

I wondered if I actually loved this album and Oasis, or if I'd just heard every track so many times I'd developed Stockholm syndrome and convinced myself I enjoyed it. Fortunately, I'm convinced it's the former, and this is an excellent album.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

A few good tracks, but frankly most are not memorable.

The Cars

3/5

Roxy Music

3/5

I didn't realise Brian Eno was in Roxy Music!

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

Strong start, less strong finish.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Incredible voice.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

The Libertines

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Great album, aside from the crying child in the third track. I get why it's there, but it absolutely disrupts the experience.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

3/5

A lot of variety in texture and sound in this album. An atmospheric opening, some colourful tracks, then a pretty mechanical and gritty change in Auto Destruction. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World has aspects of its composition that could have come straight out of a Nintendo track. Clearly an imaginative and forward-thinking album, despite not necessarily being all that evocative or enjoyable. The last track goes pretty hard though.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Iconic vocals and harmonies, but again 29 minutes across 12 tracks is just such a short album to my ears.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Cross

Justice

4/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

Suede

2/5

Not bad, but not for me.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

A tad surprised by how much I enjoyed the rest of this album. Obviously the popular tracks like Common People, Disco 2000 are great, but I wasn't anticipating tracks like Mis-Shapes or Bar Italia. Worth listening too again in a few days for more to sink in.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

5/5

I always felt there was a tendency for the qualities of tracks on live albums to be drowned out and lost in the noise, rarely do I find them living up to the same standards as their accompanying studio albums, but this is one of the exceptions. Penny For Your Thoughts is such a refreshing interlude, unexpected but appreciated. Jumping Jack Flash is also a great track with a killer solo towards the end, surprised it isn't more popular. Do You Feel Like We Do is a 14-minute finisher, excellent solos from Bob Mayo on keyboard and Hammond, great track to end.

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Shuggie Otis

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

A rich sound suffused with energy, melodic and varied in timbre but still rooted in a pretty down-to-earth style. I'm surprised I've never heard of this band before, what a pleasure to hear them now. Eyes to the Wind is a *fantastic* track.

Moby Grape

2/5

Not for me. A lot of very short tracks that never really go anywhere.

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

The more I listen the more it's growing on me, especially the heavy samples on Rock Box.

2112

Rush

5/5

Peak Rush, 2112 is a 20 minute track that feels like 5.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

There's a lot of overlap here with many other blues groups and artists, including Carlos Santana, surprisingly(?). Hooker almost seems like a larger-than-life figure in that respect. He has a large discography that I need to work through, no doubt that it's worth listening to.

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Ian Curtis' vocals are just not for me at this stage in my life. Expressive and melancholic, sure, but they've never sat well in my mind. My opinion here will no doubt change as I explore more of this punk and post-punk era. It's a good album, but not quite there for me, yet.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

All of these tracks are pretty hard, I'm seeing the appeal of NIN. Yet I also expected something *more*, given their wide appeal on the internet. That could be their association with Johnny Cash through Hurt more than anything else. The more I listen the more I'm getting into their sound. Very surprised by A Warm Place, I wasn't expecting such a pleasant...? track from this album. High 3, or low 4.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Surely an album with a track called Thalassocracy has to be great, right? You'd be wrong, it's simply *alright*. This album isn't for me, but it's still a clear step down from the Pixies.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

4/5

Eclectic and vibrant album full of so many samples its hard to keep track. Scooby Snacks is a fun track, but it's superseded by Smoke 'Em, Bombin' the L and a few other tracks IMO.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

I knew Van Morrison was good, but I didn't realise he was *this good*. Pleasantly surprised by how fantastic this album is.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

There are some good tracks, but this falls off post-cactus.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Not what I would have expected from Miles Davis, especially the second track. Great to listen to nonetheless.

White Denim

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Some decent tracks: Mother's Little Helper, Lady Jane, Under My Thumb, and Out Of Time. The rest weren't memorable to me.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Such a clean sound for a live album.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Despite my love of metal, Pantera doesn't do anything for me. I don't hear that spark, they sound a little hollow. Sad, but maybe another listen in the future would change that.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Tight production, good to listen to but nothing incredible.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Great album, for a debut especially so.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

A decent album, but not quite as good as what I've come to expect from Yes.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Never placed the King Crimson sample in POWER before; this must be my wake-up call to listen to more Kanye. Key tracks for me are POWER, All Of The Lights, So Appalled, Devil In A New Dress. Hard to believe this album is 14 years old.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Excellent in every respect. Bonus points for having my top three LS tracks. Tuesday's Gone and Simple Man are some of the finest pieces ever written, and Free Bird speaks for itself.

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

Not for me. I'll come back to it in a couple of years and try again.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Not bad, but nothing stood out to me. An amalgamation of sound that, to me right now, doesn't quite work. Worth another listen in the future.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

There's so much happening on this album, such rich instrumentation (especially on Running Dry). I'm quickly falling in love with Neil Young's music in a way I wasn't expecting.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

It's not Iron Maiden's best, but some excellent tracks remain here. Prowler is a strong opener, and Phantom of the Opera is also a very enjoyable 7 minutes. Iron Maiden as a finisher would have been better were it not preceded by Charlotte the Harlot, which was pretty forgettable.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

Not for me. Redeemed by some tracks, but lost by others.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Some of these tracks sort of blend into one. But there's some great hooks, and Go West is an excellent track.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Adele

4/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Excellent, really holds up after decades.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

It starts strong, but by the time you get to Dirty Barry, you're wondering what's happening, and then you're inexplicably thrown into a spoken word segment, before resuming the rest of the music you were hoping for. Maybe there's a grander tale to be told here, but I'm missing it. This album is a little all over the place, too disparate and incoherent for me. Despite that there are some good tracks: Set The Controls, Vibes, The Big Bamboozle, other tracks do have some great moments but they just never seem to come together.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Date With The Night, and Maps are great tracks. The rest, while enjoyable, was not too memorable.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Flute-led folk rock wasn't originally on my radar, but now it certainly is.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

A few excellent tracks, sadly the rest are not worth mentioning. Just shy of 4 stars.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Not bad, but I'd probably enjoy this more if Steven Tyler wasn't a pedo. Alas, he is and the sleazy lyrics do not come off well.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Loved Death To Everyone.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Loving the eclectic sound.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

I See You

The xx

4/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Not bad, nothing great.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Synchronicity I & II are both good tracks, as is Every Breath You Take, Murder By Numbers is also a strong finish, but the other tracks didn't live up to my expectations.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

5/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

I can't believe I've never heard Prophet's Song before. An excellent track. The qualities of the other tracks go without saying.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Some redeeming tracks, but nothing special. Vocals remind me of Bill Calahan, but musically it's lacking.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

A few tracks were a little repetitive, but I expect the repetition would turn to enjoyment after a few more listens. I'm enjoying the instrumentation and the vocals.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Birdland and Teen Town are great tracks.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

Usually love more experimental stuff but I don't think I was in the right mood for this. Will need another listen.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Not bad but I've heard it all so many times for so many years it's hard to love it.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

In a 3 hour album there will no doubt be some good tracks worth remembering, but the rest landed without sticking.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Still not really a fan of the Smiths, but this was enjoyable.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

As always, Cohen doesn't miss.

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Scissor Sisters

4/5

First half is amazing, second half less so.

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Fever Ray

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Wish I enjoyed this sort of music more. It's good, I know it's good, but it hasn't won me over just yet.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

5/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Violent Femmes

2/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Not bad, but nothing special to my ears.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

One great track at the very end, but the rest didn't inspire me.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Fragile

Yes

5/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Talvin Singh

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Bit samey-samey on the first listen. Didn't quite feel as rich as other PJ Harvey albums.