267
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3.07
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25%
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Britpop
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31
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Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Man Who | 5 | 3.01 | +1.99 |
| Music For The Jilted Generation | 5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
| This Is Hardcore | 5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
| Technique | 5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
| Elvis Is Back | 5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
| Closer | 5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
| Protection | 5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
| Since I Left You | 5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
| Melodrama | 5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
| Neon Bible | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ill Communication | 1 | 3.65 | -2.65 |
| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 1 | 3.63 | -2.63 |
| To Pimp A Butterfly | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| Stankonia | 1 | 3.55 | -2.55 |
| Power In Numbers | 1 | 3.48 | -2.48 |
| 3 Feet High and Rising | 1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
| Mama's Gun | 1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
| GREY Area | 1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
| Here, My Dear | 1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
| Django Django | 1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 4 | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 4.67 |
| The White Stripes | 2 | 5 |
| Pulp | 2 | 5 |
| The Prodigy | 2 | 5 |
| The Doors | 2 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4.25 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| The Fall | 2 | 1.5 |
5-Star Albums (39)
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New Order
The first real discovery and positive surprise for me! New Order are actually the rest of Joy Division after the death of Ian Curtis. And naturally, when you know that 3/4 of the old band is in the new one, you expect the same or similar sound (post-punk), although Wikipedia describes them as an electronic rock band in the first sentence. And it was probably like that in the previous albums of New Order, because this is their fifth studio album, but Technique was recorded in Ibiza and under the huge influence of dance music from the Balearic Islands and the acid house sound that was slowly emerging at that time, the guys started experimenting with their sound, so in almost half of the songs you can hear a lot of synthetic sounds, primarily synthetic percussions, but also a lot of synthesizers, and a lot of inserted sounds from those synthesizer buttons that I've always wondered what they were for. In the opening track Fine Time, which did not hint at what was to come, there is even the sound of a sheep or goat at the end of the song. In one of the reviews for this album on the generator, someone wrote "Technique is what you get if the music teacher is absent, so the kids sat behind his synthesizer, rattled the buttons and recorded what they got". So, half of the album sounds like a bastard of Joy Division and Pet Shop Boys, but the other, larger half (5:4), when they added synthesizers and synth effects and percussion to the post-punk sound, an interesting synth-pop sound was obtained, which is one of my favorite genres in music.
I read that in the 80s and early 90s it was cool to listen to New Order, that only those who fancied themselves with a sharp sound and were misunderstood by society listened to them. Today, 35 years later, I'm discovering Technique and listening to All the Way, Love Less, Guilty Partner, Run, Dream Attack for the first time... I've made a playlist on Spotify where I add the most beautiful songs from the albums I'm going through - well, I've added the most songs from Technique from all the albums so far - 5 out of a total of 9 on the album. Plus, I listened to the album twice this morning, and one of the songs - Love Less - maybe five times by the time I write this. Great one!
5 likes
Johnny Cash
At San Quentin is an album you can't help but love. First - it shows that it is full of soul, that Cash is singing from the bottom of his soul and that he is fully committed to the audience. But mostly, on Cash's country sounds, no matter how hard you try, you just can't get all parts of your body to stay calm, so you'll find yourself tapping your foot, or snapping your fingers, moving your head... An album that shows the true love for music in a raw way, and no matter how much you're not a fan of this sound, you just can't help but like it.
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