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Album	You	Global	Diff
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	5	2.98	+2.02
Feast of Wire Calexico	5	3.29	+1.71
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	4	2.58	+1.42
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.58	+1.42
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	5	3.65	+1.35
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.68	+1.32

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Frank Amy Winehouse	1	3.45	-2.45
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	1	3.41	-2.41
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	1	3.38	-2.38
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	1	3.33	-2.33
Rust In Peace Megadeth	1	3.24	-2.24
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	1	3.23	-2.23
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Mudhoney	1	2.84	-1.84
Vol. 4 Black Sabbath	2	3.75	-1.75
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	1	2.72	-1.72
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	2	3.39	-1.39

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Rust In Peace

Megadeth

1/5

You know, good for them.

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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The Velvet Underground

4/5

A little uneven, yet surprisingly mellow

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Great collaboration

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Make it stop.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Gigantic kinda makes the album. I regret not walking over to the Somerville Theater to see them play now though.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

Scared the cats. I was surprised at the variety though

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

I listened to the whole album a month ago. Listened again. Nope.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

What a gorgeous album. So many love songs, interspersed and commingled with protest songs, songs like Behind the Wall that were unheard. What a freshman album, so misunderstood, so raw.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

1/5

I just can’t. His music is wonderful, his voice has me drowning in razor blades and excrement.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

Well that was unexpected! I recommended it to Paul Reinert, as right up his unusual, funky, melodic alley.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Almost big-red-chaired it when the vocal first came in. Stuck with it and… it was ok. I’ll probably never listen again.

The xx

2/5

I liked VCR. Kind of surprised that I never listened at release. Fine as moody background music, though I’ll probably never listen again.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

My Beloved Monster is still lovely, and the high point of this album for me. I like his voice, but the overall mood is pretty bleak. (I think I remember it was about his sister’s suicide.) A difficult listen.

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Another one that mostly got past me at the time. Textbook Alt-rock, with the distortion and jangly guitars, rock steady back beat, and close harmonies on the chorus.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Every note by heart.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Funkalicious!

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Whoa. Brian May. They never played that first track on FM radio. Too enraging I suspect. Holds up!

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Pretty perky for prayers. The Episcopalian hymnal could take a lesson. Not my preferred listening material though.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

1/5

This just made me so sad. The band trying so hard, her talent so evident. Downgraded for being a shameless money grab.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

What an instrument. Ella gets all the stars. Marked down for some dated lyrics and over the top, stifling instrumentation. I wish they’d picked Ella & Louis.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Ok, wow, I miss Perry Farrell so much and wish someone was moving the scene the way he did. That said, a difficult listen. Aside from Been Caught, which is beyond classic, it made his vision viable.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Ok, never listened to the entire album before. I do love the funk, and it turns out that this is the perfect beat to dance to while swinging a cat toy for Nola to play with. How did we not hear the pathos in the message at the time? Today’s lens, post The Wire, says these characters were excelling within the very narrow parameters available.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

A whole lot going on. Great sound.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

I never liked The Fall. I still don’t like The Fall. Pretentious posturing fronting a decent band.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

Not glam enough, not edgy enough. Glad Bowie gave them their hit, but isn’t it telling that they passed on Suffragette City? Meh.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Holds up ok. Only 3 standouts for me, though: The Weight, Long Black Veil, and I Shall Be Released.

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Good background to be introduced to. That Ken Burns country music documentary should have included Ray Price.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

1/5

DNF. Has not worn well.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

5/5

Saw them perform the anniversary tour last year. Slam dunk.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Glad to listen to this one, which I picked put of the backlog because I’ve been listening to Cowboy Carter somewhat obsessively. Interesting echoes: the survey aspect, the occasional prominence of instrumental over vocal. And I do like Willie’s turn of phrase.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

So personal, so minutely detailed. Such an unusual and unique instrument, too. While I was a little too young to wear out the grooves of a Blue LP, its influence is undeniable. Can’t deny the queen her 5.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Total shock to get this smooth, Shirley Bassey/James Bond theme/ cocktail seduction hour music. I only knew Goldfrapp from https://youtu.be/uco-2V4ytYQ?si=tgbCxgcSImoVzI2s.

Cypress Hill

3/5

Incredibly disruptive, and yet kind of same, same.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

When we were choosing CDs for the library, for the very first time, eking out dollars, Tom insisted on this album. It was entirely new to me, and yet entirely familiar, because he could play every note and sing every lyric. A voyage of transition.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

I had no idea what to expect, and was completely surprised. Jazz? Club? R&B? Uhhh.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

A revelation. I would never have spent the time to listen, or expected what I got. I hope they are all making the music they always wanted to make.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Very appealing. Totally new to me.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

1/5

I really tried but DNF. Fingernails on a blackboard.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

That is a whole lot of fiddle and banjo, for sure, and such a discovery! I had a mistaken impression of the NGDB. There is No Brother Where Art Thou without this album. Hearing the intros and outros is such a treat. Mother Maybelle! And oh, Doc Watson.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

I’m going to have to revisit this, study the lyrics. Unusual format, not exactly easy listening.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

1/5

Another difficult listen. Out of my interest sphere.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Appealing voice, unusual sound. And sooo boring.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

They were really trying from on top of a mountain of privilege to move the needle. Really interesting musicianship. Had a hard time with the poor rejected male trope though.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

I had never listened to this particular album before, and it’s an interesting snapshot. Some songs are on her Greatest Hits album, others I’ve never heard in decades as a fan or as an audience member in multiple venues. She is the real deal. This isn’t her best album.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

So much anger, this makes me think of just post-menopausal woman, crazed with hormones and a lifetime of pent up rage. I only knew I Want You, which I thought of as a spooky good stalker/obsessive PoV but framed in the rest of the album it’s almost innocent. Wow.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

I thought I knew this album, but there were still surprises, like Horn. The disadvantages of coming to music online, rather than on that sleek beautiful vinyl: you miss things, including the arc. The finger work is masterful, unique. The voice is a lullaby. And the story is so tragic.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

While I’m no judge of rap or house, she is so assertive and commanding. It’s no wonder she hass done so much. She’s a force.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

3/5

I like Dwight’s voice and delivery a lot. I like other of his albums better. And I really hate I Sang Dixie.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Difficult listen for me. Santana was a model for T and he loved this album.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

1/5

You know, good for them.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

While I appreciate their enthusiasm, this is jot something I find enjoyable.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Like most, I suspect, the success of Bittersweet Symphony and its subsequent controversy sucked all the energy out of the rest of the album which is a detailed, complete vision. The orchestral depth, the singular vocal, the point of view. Remarkable artistry. I wonder where they might have gone if they hadn’t been drowned in the bath by those they adored.

Stephen Stills

3/5

He cut a wide swath. Paul Simon might not have reached out to Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Ry Cooder might not have gone to Cuba to record Buena Vista Social Club. And, there’s a lot of self indulgent noodling.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

That’s some big fat guitar. Falsetto vocals not my favorite. Meh.