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Album	You	Global	Diff
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Logical Progression LTJ Bukem	4	2.52	+1.48
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	4	2.65	+1.35
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	4	2.74	+1.26
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	5	3.77	+1.23
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Lexicon Of Love ABC	1	3.08	-2.08
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	1	3	-2
Tago Mago Can	1	2.79	-1.79
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	1	2.77	-1.77
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.41	-1.41

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Artist	Albums	Average
Willie Nelson	2	5

5-Star Albums (7)

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Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

What’s left to say?..a critical moment in the evolution of rock, Americana, alt-country…take your pick…also a demonstration of what can happen when you allow a group of musicians to percolate and figure out what they want to play and how they want to play it…

5 likes

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

I won’t say it’s complete rubbish; I’m sure somebody somewhere could find some redeeming aspect or quality, or sort out what makes this particular release significant enough to merit inclusion on this list…but that’s not me…no hooks, no melodies, nothing about the arrangements…stack this against Neu! and it is definitely worse than second best

1 likes

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

Interesting, very interesting…seeing McLaren’s name I was afraid it would be a shambles…but no…it’s very listenable, very catchy, a very subtle way to start people listening to genres they might not otherwise have explored

1 likes

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Didn’t really touch me…interesting concept, and well executed and produced…but it didn’t touch me

1 likes

1-Star Albums (4)

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Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

A classic….melodic and jarring

Adele

4/5

Huh…hadn’t taken the time to listen before and therefore didn’t appreciate the emotional range of her singing or the vulnerability of her lyrics

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Torch songs not usually my thing, but I get the appeal

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Wow…

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

A Feast from first to last

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

What amazes me is that what was viewed as such a stylistic, and genre, leap sounds so natural and honest…I suppose that’s a measure of his creative genius

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

I’m a fan, but this one doesn’t fire me up as much as others…dunno why, maybe at times it seemed less urgent, less poetic

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

A great example of 1974 Nashville sound: impeccable production, session musicians at the top of their game, and Jones’s voice is incredible….BUT the subject matter and the way it’s approached; damn I need a drink…

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

My second listen (popped up on a friend’s list the other day and he was already a fan, so….)….not sure I’m getting all of it; I see the appeal, but it’s not what I’d reach for ordinarily…definitively British, and I like the melodies and approach, but for me something is missing and I don’t know what

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

I don’t get it…it’s okay, but I don’t hear anything that might have been groundbreaking or otherwise significant…it’s a pleasant enough listen, and competently produced, but what makes it, per NME, one of the 500 best…not sure I need to spend time researching that…maybe I’m just a rube

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Low

David Bowie

4/5

It was not my cup of tea in 1977…today I appreciate it as a step in the development of a unique artist who, like Ray Charles somewhat, was always reinventing his art, his style, himself

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Didn’t care for it….stylistically all over the place and the musicianship was not very good…I’ll double back and give it another listen, but for today…

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

What to make of this?..world-music vibe but his background is so punk…probably another one that deserves a 2d listen

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

What’s not to like?..funk, musicianship, fresh air

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Not usually a fan of torch songs, but her voice is so clean and this is so well produced

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Not much of a singer, but an inspired poet…R.I.P

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Thought they were just another grunge band…didn’t realize the scope of their stylistic competence…reminds me of one of my favorite breweries; if you don’t like the beer you’re drinking it’s because you don’t like that style, it’s not because they made a bad version of it..

John Prine

5/5

Amazing

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

My guess is this is one of the best examples of the type; it’s just not anything I was interested in…seems to be a lot of frustration and anger in there, much like punk and some New Wave; it’s just a different form of expression

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Reminded me pretty quickly of Husker Du, who’d been playing for 5 years or so when these guys got together…will need a closer listen to sort out how lyrics compare, content- and poetry-wise

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Hardest working man in show business

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

First time through I never get rap lyrics, but the mix is great

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Australia must have been a post-apocalyptic Mad Max musical wasteland in the mid- to late-80’s

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Love her voice…great breakout album

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

To me, sounded like EDM cut with angry lyrics…somebody might have it on their 1001 Album list, but not me

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

It’s Willie, for fuck’s sake

Common

3/5

Not my cup, although it’s starting to grow on me…

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

It’s Dylan

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Interesting…don’t know that I’d ever listened to the whole thing before…if it was the starting point for prog-rock I get it, though I’m pretty sure Genesis and Yes already had their thoughts in mind by this point…they all seemed to be coming at it from different points, no doubt because of different influences and goals

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

4/5

I’m sure many people appreciate how well produced this is, how precise the playing is (?is there a human in there?), how you could dance all night to this if you had the right dose of X…but it’s just not what I’m into

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

Kind of interesting, but not terribly

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Really liked this…would be nice if my Spanish was better and I could understand what they’re saying, but I still liked it a lot

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

4/5

Don’t think I knew before reading the article that this is an album of covers…excellent musicianship, and Clapton’s vocals belie the 3 year heroin binge preceding the recording

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Thought this was surprisingly enjoyable…not sure what I expected, maybe either heavy EDM or nasty metal, but this wasn’t either of those…very clean I thought

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Thought it sounded a bit of a mess…

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

I see now what all the fuss was about

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

I think this was a concept album of some sort…workmanlike, competent effort, but I don’t get the concept

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

That’s a fun listen

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

I know, I know…great album, extraordinarily popular…I’ve just never been a fan

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Another classic, by all accounts

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

More KrautRock….not as good as Neu!, but better than than last pile of shit…nothing memorable

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

It’s the Cure…not as scattered and at cross-purposes as the last one that made the list, so a bit easier to listen to…but still pretty whiny

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

I see the appeal, and it’s really well done, but it’s not what I’d pick to listen to

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

The product of one man’s fevered imagination, and vision…incredible

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

The hard thing to remember, after all the years and all the listens, is how fresh and eye-opening this sounded when we first got our hands on it

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Sounds like a Roxy Music clone….well produced and catchy, but sounds very much like Roxy Music…I wonder how the timelines sort.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

1/5

I can’t listen to it anymore…he can’t decide if he’s Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed or somebody-the-fuck else, and the arrangements, and playing, are all over the map…it’s not pretty

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Maybe not his best, but all things considered still a very fine piece of work

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

1/5

Stopped before the end of the third song, if you want to call it that…what a bloody shambles…if this is what is needed to help my neuroplasticity, I think maybe I’d rather go petrified…not even worth a star, but the app won’t allow me to go lower

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

It’s very slick, at least at first listen….but that seems to strip the emotion out of it….very very cool, but is there any meaning?

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

Suzanne Vega

4/5

Fabulously sweet

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Wow!!..talk about dark; I was just listening and I wanted to cut my throat…great production, great voice, but I found myself wondering how they could write music that was fairly catchy when the lyrics were so melancholy…

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Love the Jam

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Great album…can see why for so many it’s a touchstone

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Stone Soul Groove

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Sounded a lot stranger back in the day…wonder what that means

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Too bad Syd went down the rabbit hole…wonder what they could have done if he hadn’t lost himself

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Didn’t care for it…seemed average

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Pleasantly surprised

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

All very earnest and sincere, hoping your girlfriend will allow you a glimpse of titty

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

What could I add?

Black Sabbath

3/5

Just don’t dislike the world, or myself, that much

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Doesn’t hold a candle to Tommy, and there’s no way Townshend wasn’t thinking about and planning Tommy before he ever heard this…a pale comparison

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Pretty dark…dunno if I would have listened to more than once back in the day

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

It’s Willie, for fuck’s sake

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Liked it more than I thought I would…wasn’t ready for it, or open to it, in 1990

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

I liked it…reminded me of the first time I heard King Sonny; no idea what they’re saying, but the music is infectious…

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Bittersweet listen now

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Didn’t really touch me…interesting concept, and well executed and produced…but it didn’t touch me

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Infectious fun, and it brought a lot more women out on the New Wave dance floor

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Great stuff…heard a rumor some years ago that the show in Hull the next night is considered by some to be even better…hard to imagine

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

That was fun!

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Really enjoying catching up with Bowie

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

1/5

I tried…I really tried…but I couldn’t finish…it’s not the electronica, it’s that it sounds like soulless drivel to me

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Loved it…just wish I knew what they’re singing about

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Sounds confused…must have been a bad year for this to be one of the best

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Wasn’t into it when it dropped, but now I see the appeal

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Great stuff…what I like is that the style around him can change but you can always recognize his horn

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

That was fun

Iron Maiden

2/5

Thought it was rubbish

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5