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Album	You	Global	Diff
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.27	+1.73
2112 Rush	5	3.38	+1.62
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.43	+1.57
Rapture Anita Baker	4	2.94	+1.06

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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	1	3.03	-2.03
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.62	-1.62
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.61	-1.61
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37
Pretenders Pretenders	2	3.35	-1.35
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	1	2.35	-1.35
Bad Company Bad Company	2	3.25	-1.25
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	2	3.24	-1.24
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	2	3.12	-1.12

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Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Lot of cool riffs, thick bouncy bass and more funk than you can handle. Songs often drag for too long than they probably needed to. Funk might be the most aptly named genre though....

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Really cool album, might not be his "best", but there is something about Dylan where his music either works, or it doesn't quite get there. A few tracks don't quite stick the landing for me, but overall there's some really great tunes that have you scrunching your face as guitar bends and harmonica slides shape blues and folk sentiments into something that seeps warmth.

Pretenders

2/5

Really disjointed scoundscape. Ranging from unfiltered punk with 'precious'; into slow ballad masterpiece 'brass in pocket' with a banger finish of 'mystery achievement'. The whole album is underscored with a bass guitar that won't stop "noodling" and sometimes it works like the aforementioned album closer, other times its distracting. With a mix that just feels like it was done by a 13 year old who cranked every dial up the entire middle of this album is skippable. Overall, I'd say there were only 3 solid tracks in a sea of mediocrity.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Banger after banger - "this is love" entered into the pantheon of great tracks to listen to on a train. Bit of a flat section as she exhibits her inner Leonard Cohen with "horses in my dream" which I found to be quite lacking in charge. Thom Yorke compliments her voice very well on other tracks however, to create a more morbid and morose vibe when required. Never listened to PJ Harvey before, can safely say I will now.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Starting off with "Sympathy" is such a bold choice, there is no way the next track can live up to that standard, ironically the next track "no expectations" lives up to its name - way too boring and country-coded to be a pleasing follow-up; and unfortunately most of the album continues this trend. Street fighting man is still a cool stand out track, and stray cat blues has something fiesty kicking in the tangy chord progressions. Overall, this album is so bland, it hurts my inner stones fan.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

No notes

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Liked the "big band" sound, pretty funky and groovy - not sure what the "singer" was up to.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Really cool band I'd never heard before. Kind of like if bowie fronted new order

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

This starts and I'm like 'oh boy I forgot how GOOD this song is'; track 2 gets on, and I'm like 'oh boy I forgot how GOOD this song is'; track 3 begins and I'm like 'this is it, isn't it?' Yep, 2 tracks of absolute candy magic and the rest is pure filler. My favourite lyrics though were: " I bet you we can pop like we've never popped it before, Why we keep comin' back for more and more for sure (sure), It's cool Britney when we get down on the floor, yeah, And we go on and on until the break of dawn" At the time of recording, Britney Spears was 17...yeeesh

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

And see people, they don't understand No, girlfriends, they can't understand Your grandsons, they won't understand On top of this, I ain't ever gonna understand How this band defined and inspired like 10 years of incredible rock that time already wants to forget ever happened

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Genuinely great album, probably would have been 5 stars if it wasn't for a couple of tracks that let the 40 minute's of pure bop down

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

There's good to great songs on this album but some tracks, at least on Spotify, have a bizzare mix(?). Its like they've boosted Elvis' voice and just kept all the other instruments at a certain level making a cocktail of indistinguishable noise. I do like Elvis and the Attractions, even got to see them live once and they killed it. But unfortunately, this album is broken

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

I've listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell's, so it's quite strange to hear an album full of mediocrities

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Some world beating tracks in this, but also Roger Taylor wants to put his dick in his tailpipe

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

The 2 "all timers" on this album make up 2/3 decent tracks. The other being money changes everything. 3 tracks don't make a "good" album.... Nevermind a must listen too Remember when cyndi lauper was in wwf? she peaked 2/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Pretty cool production and backing music, but Snoop's lyrics and cadence becomes fairly repetitive and redundant after a handful of tracks

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Chill out to this, and you're automatically cool for 45 mins

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

1/5

Like a pack of Gorillaz b-sides that weren't good for an album for that particular super group. Whilst there is nothing wrong with the album, there is nothing of worth here: bland, insepid, and inoffensive

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Me: this album's 5 stars You: you took the words👏 right👏 out of my👏 mouth 👏👏👏

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

The second this album begins, you know you're off. To something special

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Nothing inherently wrong about this album, just every song is derivative of its predecessor

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Give me driving bass, soaring harmonies, and dispairingly depressing lyics any day plz

2112

Rush

5/5

After Geddy Lee says "and the meek shall inherit the earth" there's a couple of bars consisting of pure elite riff. Then Neil Peart comes in with possibly one of the greatest fills ever put on record. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Motorhead crawled out of hell and its glorious

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Meandering at times, and I didn't think you could have too many bends in guitar licks. But the good tracks are very good

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

I get the appeal, some tracks are really catchy, and others I just find meandering and kind of dull. But some really cool stuff going on