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Album	You	Global	Diff
James Brown Live At The Apollo James Brown	5	3.46	+1.54
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	5	3.9	+1.1
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tidal Fiona Apple	2	3.45	-1.45
Garbage Garbage	2	3.38	-1.38
The White Album Beatles	3	4.18	-1.18
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	3	4.1	-1.1
Skylarking XTC	2	3.04	-1.04

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Skylarking

XTC

2/5

The thing I thought most while listening to this was "I wish I was listening to the Beatles", closely followed by "I wish I was listening to the Beach Boys." It's not a good sign if I'm mostly daydreaming about other music while listening to your album. Am I meant to be impressed that you managed to replicate the sound of the 60s in 1986?

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What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Music can, and often should, say something. A beautiful, cohesive experience from beginning to end, with high re-listenability.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Not my kind of pop, but 3 stars just for Sledgehammer and that emulated shakuhachi

Garbage

2/5

Not sure why but this one didn't resonate with me. Felt like it didn't go hard enough? I know I like some of Garbage's later stuff a bit better. Maybe I need to give it another shot sometime.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

First of all, albums shouldn't be this long! There are some fun tracks here but also a lot of weird filler. It's still the Beatles though, how bad can it be?

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Felt nothing :(

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

I really like this music! But I think it suffers from being on an album. This stuff just has to be heard live.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Couldn’t decide originally if this inched to a 4 (bonus points for covering good golly miss molly) but maybe my dad rock days are behind me??

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Important, brave, forward-looking, the only thing that holds this back from being 5* is needing to be a little more musically engaging when listening front-to-back.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Beautiful start to finish

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Another album that I’d rather be listening to in a jazz bar than on vinyl

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Just for the chain

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Innovation and power around every corner. I can't get up on the karaoke stage and sing Can't Buy Me Love this many times and not award the full 5 stars.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

I thought I wasn't much into MJ but this grew on me. I even enjoy him and Paul McCartney fighting over a girl, as silly as it sounds

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Not sure how to rate this stuff that I would normally only listen to while high. For consistency will give a “sober rating” as that’s how I am while listening to these albums

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Love this sound! Not normally that into folk but this works for me as an album

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I think the problem for me here is that the instrumentation doesn't match the pace of the music. It feels so dischordant to me to have these heavy electric guitar solos and some screaming vocals when your song feels like it wants to be listened to on a lazy afternoon.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Not gonna pretend I can relate to 90s rap. But that synth whistle is one of the coolest sounds in music, no question

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

I love storytelling in songs and this album is bookended by two really nice ones in Big Iron and El Paso. But most of the rest of the album is really dull prewar type melodies which I cannot stand :(

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Rating this after only one listen so I don’t have to go through it again. Sorry, go off, kings but do it somewhere far away so I can’t hear you thanks