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Album	You	Global	Diff
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	5	2.88	+2.12
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes TV On The Radio	5	2.94	+2.06
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.97	+2.03
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	5	3.05	+1.95
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	5	3.06	+1.94
Dear Science TV On The Radio	5	3.16	+1.84
Faith George Michael	5	3.27	+1.73
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.28	+1.72
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.33	+1.67

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	1	3.63	-2.63
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	1	3.42	-2.42
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	1	3.33	-2.33
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	1	3.21	-2.21
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	1	3.18	-2.18
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches Happy Mondays	1	2.98	-1.98
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Bad Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	2	3.79	-1.79
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67

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TV On The Radio	2	5

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The Byrds	2	1.5

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Faith

George Michael

5/5

The opening bars of Faith put a smile on my face for the first time in days

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1-Star Albums (10)

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Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

I know many of these songs from bootleg Counting Crows live tracks! The deluxe version of this is overstuffed. I really enjoyed the studio feel of it - another thing the CC took away from VM. The reprises confused me; it felt like the album went on a long time or I'd accidentally set it to shuffle and repeat.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Found it a bit muddy and indistinct, tracks blended into each other even on third listen. The only bit I remember is when he says "meat is murder" which reminded me to have lunch

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Each song had a unique texture but the album as a whole still felt cohesive. Some absolute bangers on this one. Can't believe I've never actually heard the whole album before when I'm word perfect on Mrs. Robinson.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

The Band

2/5

Maybe this is a timing thing but for such a seminal group and album it felt really watery and diluted. I guess it was harder to access folk, rock, soul and fusions from Black and traditional artists so everybody's rich friend's dad's favourite group of white dudes was what you had.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Really liked this as a teen but went right off Richard Ashcroft, probably due to overplay. Revisiting after a long break, many of these songs really stand up - emotive, textured. Some of the production feels unnecessarily dramatic from a modern perspective.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

4/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

This is fantastic. I want to play this all the time

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Slipknot

1/5

Bounced off this hard. Just not my thing I think. Felt all very samey, hard to pick up particular riffs or lyrics. Maybe if I knew more about guitar I'd be more compelled.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

5/5

Loved this. So much texture and interest

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Enjoyable but I felt like I had to really, really lean in and engage to pull anything out of it - I kept losing concentration.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The big hits on this album are very familiar to me and indubitably work. The in between tracks are a little muddier, grounded in that era-appropriate hard man style of lyrics and vocals that feels so offputting when served without the dramatic flights of fancy found in the opening and closing tracks.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Man all these white man groups sound the same. It was fine. I don't remember anything about it.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

People talk shit about RHCP and it'sa very uncool to like them, but this and One Hot Minute are amazing albums full of bangers.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Pretty good

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Honestly kind of a banger

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

I really enjoy this era of hip hop, the production and flow always make me smile. This isn't LL's best work though. There's a lot of lyrical repetition and some gross 90's cultural stuff that hasn't aged well.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

I don't think I appreciate high level guitar enough to really get this one, and the oft-imitated 60's cultural touchstones really catch for me. Definitely channeling "ratings are for personal taste and not quality assessments" thing today.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Garbage

4/5

I love how this album is stretching towards something it couldn't quite achieve. These beautiful, dramatic songs, full of melancholy, angst and rage, each have a distinct emotive voice - but even with every trick thhey threw at it in production, the late grunge era guitars, bass and drums are foregrounded and bury the rest of it, making it hard to differentiate between tracks if you focus on anything but Shirley's voice. When the other instrumental elements do break through, it's sublime. You can see why they were moved to lean into digital production in 2.0, trying to channel that energy to the foreground. Even failing to hit its target, it remains an all time great.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

So great. The presence of the audience noise is additive rather than distracting, because there's so much chemistry between Cash and the inmates. It's so humanising, in a scenario which is anything but. One of the best live albums I have ever heard.

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

I appreciated this more than enjoyed it. The most interesting parts are the leats fun to listen to.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

5/5

Didn't expect to like this - looked him up and was like "ANOTHER highly influential jazz and folk influenced dude seminal to the rock and acoustic scsnes of the 60's and 70's? Christ" but then it was so wonderful. You can see the direct DNA leading to eg Fleet Foxes. Great structure and drama, no pretension, just beautiful.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Liked this one much more than the othr Hendrix disc I've had so far - much more melodic and accessible, less of a 60's vibe

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

5/5

Really loved this. Textured, melodic, dramatic, compelling.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Amazing

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

5/5

Wow

Queen II

Queen

2/5

So disappointed that I didn't vibe with this; it's such a legendary album. Somehow or other all the tracks seem to blend together. Maybe it's just coming at it later, being already familiar with the "Queen sound" this album introduced?

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Enjoyed more than I expected but could take it or leave it

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Just didn't care about this at all. The songs on here I recognised I know from covers I enjoyed a lot more.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

Really loved this

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

1/5

Didn't care

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Good but I'm too sad to care

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Good but too sad to care

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

1/5

Didn't care

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

She's amazing, an incredibly proficient singer, but I'm just not into it

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Forgettable. Why is Sympathy for the Devil on multiple Stones album in this very list??

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

2/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

Don't care for it. Some classic songs on here but the boy band vibe is even more dull than the usual white folk man stuff.

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Very cool but not my thing.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Faith

George Michael

5/5

The opening bars of Faith put a smile on my face for the first time in days

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Not for me.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

Surprised how tinny and 80's some of this sounds on the remastered version, like they ramped it up rather than down. Anyway obviously full of bangers, pity about the necessary pop label ballad nonsense

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Reminded me of Dave Graney sometimes

Le Tigre

4/5

I have this one!

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

5/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan