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Album	You	Global	Diff
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
Whatever Aimee Mann	4	2.82	+1.18
São Paulo Confessions Suba	4	2.84	+1.16
Quiet Life Japan	4	2.85	+1.15
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	4	2.97	+1.03
Pelican West Haircut 100	4	2.97	+1.03
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	1	2.76	-1.76
On The Beach Neil Young	2	3.46	-1.46
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	2	3.23	-1.23
Untitled (Black Is) SAULT	2	3.06	-1.06

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The Chronic

Dr. Dre · 2 likes

4/5

Classic but slow for me at times.

1-Star Albums (1)

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Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

Inventive, lush, weird. The only flaw for me was that 2-3 tracks were just a little too long.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

4/5

The vocals, delivered in what I believe is Portuguese, bring the music to a higher, lighter level. This wasn't a lean-back-and-chill album for me, it kept my attention all the way through. The music bounces joyfully from anxious to manic to euphoric and moods I know but can't describe at the moment. Some of these tracks are their own ecosystems.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

I had heard a few SAULT songs and wasn't really into it but I did my best to go in with an open mind. And I listened. Five times. Elements of it have hallmarks of artistic genius, but overall I found it to be too cold with too many consistency issues to be something I would want to return to. The drums sound organic and retain their prominence without eating the rhythm. And the rhythm section itself has some killer moments, but I found myself bored at some moments. The rhythmic palette of this album is typically bass, guitar, synths, keys, and a few other elements that come and go. The album feels to me like it lacks a core, an internal propelling force despite its strong rhythm section. The drums, while sounding good, suffer from stagnation and off-putting, redundant beats. The vocals seem like they're never fully present, like a character in a play that has dialogue but never appears on stage. Both times the album ended, I had the impression that I didn't listen to a contemporary soul album, but a 55-minute soundtrack for a soul-influenced piece of performance art. I certainly won't begrudge people liking this album more, it's very evidently the product of massive talent and artistic refinement. It's just not my thing.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

I mean. Classic for a reason. But some of the Beatles' tendencies that don't resonate with me pop up a little too often for me to give this five, although it comes close.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

When it works it's endearingly weird, yet familiar. But there are a few jarring turns that absolutely kill the flow.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

This was better with every listen.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

2/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Soothing

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Lots of cool shit. Also a lot of space.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Classic but slow for me at times.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

This album teeters on the line between being able to date it, i.e. know its era, and sounding dated. A few elements are too stereotypically 90s for four stars. It must have sounded hyper modern when it came out.

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

The La's

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

My appreciation for its influence gets this album four.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Has an energy that doesn’t let up but changes its color.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

The influence is undeniable. It's of its era but transcends it.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

This album is a little too slow for me at times. The percussion pounds, too, creating a tension that reflects the spirit of the album. It’s the first album I would give any “X.5” if the ratings allowed it. It would be 3.5.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

I love TVOTR but this album just doesn’t see them at their peak. This is a solid, somewhat experimental album from a promising Brooklyn band with some unique influences.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Every single second of this album is a gem. Every beat, scratch, sample, hook, whatever is perfect. Iconic and deserving of that adjective.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

It’s just so good.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Pretty traditional ingredients for indie singer-songwriters circa 2011, but everything works. The sounds are rich and alive. Kinda mad I didn’t give her a good try back when this came out.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Stephen Stills

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

Not the most compelling listen, but it’s plain that this record influenced a lot of 90s pop.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

In addition to the electronic innovations and boundary-pushing sound, it’s remarkably well-paced for its era.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Just a perfect debut. It might be a 4 objectively but ultimately none of this is supposed to be objective. So nostalgia and sentiment make it perfect.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

1/5

Swings between tedious and annoying, usually some combination of both.