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Album	You	Global	Diff
Made In Japan Deep Purple	5	3.29	+1.71
Electric Music For The Mind And Body Country Joe & The Fish	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Is This It The Strokes	2	3.81	-1.81
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	2	3.61	-1.61
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	2	3.31	-1.31
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	2	3.26	-1.26
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	2	3.07	-1.07

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Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Changes & Life on Mars are classics. Whole album has more piano than expected, but it works. Andy Warhol is a bit strange, but kind of funky. Is Life on Mars the conceptual beginning of Ziggy Stardust persona and whole space opera themes? Album as a whole is good. Maybe a 6.5/10, with the two singles being 8 or 9/10.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

2/5

It's ok. Good concept album, but not really my thing.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Beautiful and powerful voice. You can really hear the emotions in her words.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Fun beats with old school DJing, sampling and scratching. Chuck D flows over the beats with powerful political lyrics. Flava Flav bounces in and out with ad libs and lyrics. The whole thing maintains a really fun atmosphere even through the serious messages. A real hip hop classic.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Definite classic songs on here. Also is the introduction of Snoop Dogg, and where Dre really popularized west coast gfunk. But overall the album sounds a bit dated.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Some classic tracks that are still great in "Monday, Monday" and "California dreamin". In those songs you can really hear the influence of popular sounds of the time that other bands like the beach boys or the Beatles were also using. Some really good voices help to really elevate some of these songs. Really strong for a debut album.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Overall it is not really my thing. It did grow on me a bit after the first listen. Nothing that really caught my attention on it, but I could see it being a good almost to listen to at work.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

It was ok. Sounds a bit dated. Not really for me.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Very unique album. Not sure what to say about it. I liked it overall. It was mellow an folky. Kind of a blend of folk-pop-rock-alternative? At some points it was like listening to The Eels and some points it was like listening to Beck. Other points it was entirely its own thing.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

An album full of love songs. Very mellow listening. Good for listening to on a quiet morning. Great voice and emotional songs.

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Interesting album. Lost of fun 80 synth rock and some operatic interludes.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

I guess I can see it's appeal for really big fans of Bowie, as some sort of concept jazz album. But I didn't think it was very good.

The Cars

4/5

Very good album. Short and sweet. No bad tracks. Entire front half of the album is hits. Made me realize how consistently good The Cars are as a rock band.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

The Band

3/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Good short jazz album