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Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.59	+1.41
Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry	4	2.7	+1.3
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	4	2.82	+1.18
Wild Gift X	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Cafe Bleu The Style Council	1	2.88	-1.88
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	1	2.73	-1.73
1999 Prince	2	3.59	-1.59
Blue Joni Mitchell	2	3.5	-1.5
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	2	3.5	-1.5
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.38	-1.38
Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré	2	3.12	-1.12
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	2	3.08	-1.08
La Revancha Del Tango Gotan Project	2	3.04	-1.04

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Boston by Boston

Classic Rawk

Sheer Heart Attack by Queen

All over the place. Some good some meandering. Hints of what was to become

Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith

Keys ok but too much saxy

Strangeways, Here We Come by The Smiths

It’s the Smiths not knocking it out but solid

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane

Love Supreme - pizza- really a 2.5 too hectic

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

Hard Again by Muddy Waters

Good electric blues

Blue by Joni Mitchell

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Good listen. Pretty solid throughout

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy

Honky Tonk Masquerade by Joe Ely

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

Heavy

The Wall by Pink Floyd

I’m comfortably numb

Graceland by Paul Simon

Every generation sends a hero up the pop charts

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears

Big chair songs

Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow

Wild ride

Calenture by The Triffids

Goes ok. Loses the plot in the back half tho.

Southern Rock Opera by Drive-By Truckers

It’s a Southern thing.

3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul

Lotsa good tunes

Let It Be by The Replacements

Can’t let it be

The Specials by The Specials

Ska til it hurts

Come Away With Me by Norah Jones

Well produced slick and oh so dull

Signing Off by UB40

Sleepy reggae

Wild Gift by X

x marks the spot

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald

Electric Warrior by T. Rex

Nearly a 4 some chunky old riffs

Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Touré

Killing Joke by Killing Joke

Post punk pain

Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes

Not as happening as the earlier ones

Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter

Solid 4 - some really good tunes some for the playlists

Rock 'N Soul by Solomon Burke

2.5 innocuous pop sould

Lam Toro by Baaba Maal

Nah just not my bag

Talking Heads 77 by Talking Heads

Spiky

Cafe Bleu by The Style Council

Just boring and soft. Not a top 1001 contender not 10001

Close To You by Carpenters

It’s a solid 3.5 smooth so smooth. Great tunesmith and Karen was just a great vocalist

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones

Stephen Stills by Stephen Stills

Still for stills

At Newport 1960 by Muddy Waters

Bluesy rocking blues

At San Quentin by Johnny Cash

3.5 a classic if a little contrived.

The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk

Pretty dreary

E.V.O.L. by Sonic Youth

Doesn’t sound as noisy as I expected.

Connected by Stereo MC's

Loved it back in th 90s. Familiar but distant

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos

Ahh it just kinda looks waits to show its hand. The 3 is all for Layla!!

Raw Like Sushi by Neneh Cherry

Solid 4. Gotta love the late 89s hip hop vibes

Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson

Nice low key country

Sea Change by Beck

Sad Beck

This Is Fats Domino by Fats Domino

Fat and easy

3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers

Funky grove and some covers if those white boys seals and doobies

The Stranger by Billy Joel

It’s like a broadway musical. Really a 7

The Grand Tour by George Jones

Bouncy smooth country

1999 by Prince

Dunno about this one. 1 2 punch then falls off a cliff

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Yeah it’s Neil. Cinnamon girl is a powerhouse

The Lexicon Of Love by ABC

At least 3 80s classics on this one

The Fat Of The Land by The Prodigy

Some obvious bangers but some filler too

461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton

Cruisy Eric

La Revancha Del Tango by Gotan Project

Just not my bag.

Chirping Crickets by Buddy Holly & The Crickets

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