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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tommy The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.63	+1.37
I See You The xx	4	2.98	+1.02

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Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

I See You

The xx

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Solid early 70s pop rock, like a more sophisticated Tom Petty or a more commercial John Cale. The drum solo in "Jump Into The Fire" is a highlight.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

A good template for the indie rock to come, especially bands like Deathcab. The intro guitar riff is quite nice, and this has the “end of the world” song we all love.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

In some ways it's fairly standard pop rock of the 70s, but in other ways it is surprisingly experimental and strange. I'd say 2.5, but the mix of pretty pop and strangeness brings it up to 3.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Many excellent songs. "Fake Plastic Trees" is perhaps one of the best songs of all time.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Pleasant but somewhat forgettable late 80s jangle pop rock, kind of like a happier Smiths.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Perhaps 4.5, but we will round up given its influential status. Although some songs feel like filler, the highlights (Backstreets, Born to Run, Jungleland) perfectly capture American yearning and striving.

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

I liked this more than I thought I would. Much of the album is the "just fine" 80s heavy metal I was expecting, but a few songs verged into actual *heavy* metal riffs that sounded more modern (like the two opening tracks).

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Not something I’d regularly listen to (perhaps just because of the language barrier), but there are some sonically interesting things going on in this album. For example, vocals that are prominently placed on top of other vocals, almost like someone is speaking to you as the song is playing.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

This is a very good live jazz album. The short spoken interludes from Duke Ellington and the audience's cheers definitely add a thrill to the music, and the drum solos on the last track ("Skin Deep") are excellent.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5