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Album	You	Global	Diff
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	5	3.11	+1.89
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.42	+1.58
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
One World John Martyn	4	2.82	+1.18
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.82	+1.18
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.84	+1.16
Fred Neil Fred Neil	4	2.92	+1.08
Future Days Can	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Atomizer Big Black	1	2.72	-1.72
xx The xx	2	3.37	-1.37
The Slider T. Rex	2	3.28	-1.28
Hysteria Def Leppard	2	3.21	-1.21
MTV Unplugged In New York Nirvana	3	4.21	-1.21
White Ladder David Gray	2	3.07	-1.07
Smile Brian Wilson	2	3.06	-1.06
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	1	2.03	-1.03
Purple Rain Prince	3	4.02	-1.02
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	4.67

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Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

This isn’t a perfect album but there’s no reason not to give it five stars. JDB is absolutely on fire here and what a comeback for the band as they mourn Richey’s disappearance.

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Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Rock n roll, attitude. Amazing vocals, before even looking up any details about this album you can hear this is the band we all know and love in absolute peak form. Also for the 70s (in fairness I don't listen to loads of live stuff from that decade) this sounds incredible for a live recording, the bass is punchy and crisp, the drums are overpowering (that's Keith Moon for you I guess) and the vocals are soaring and pitch perfect. The Who are by a long way, not my favourite band, and so I’ve not actively sought out their whole discography. Obviously records like Tommy and Who’s Next are hard to avoid but I find it hard to love aside from a few tracks. This album is different. Live, the band really show that live bands in this era, and the Who in particular had something very special. There’s not loads of flashy showmanship, but it’s loud, tight, fun and very entertaining.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

The fun realisation I know one of the songs on this record, and never knew it was Def Leppard. Nothing else really stands out to me. Over the top, guitar riffs, synths, squawky vocals, drowning in reverb. Could be Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, etc, could be any other 80s glam rock band. The most interesting thing here are the “sample” and found sounds on the outro of Gods of War, but I don’t think it’s in service of much really.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

A strange recording for many reasons, not least because a band at the height of the powers would play a live set mainly made of covers, rather than their hits. This is the most R.E.M. Nirvana ever sounded and the most Eddie Vedder Kurt Cobain ever sounded. Potential echoes of a sound they never got to explore. However, a stripped back setting is not really what we go to Nirvana for; we want rock. The set takes a bit of time to get going and it’s actually the covers; where you can hear Kurt straining or struggle or be a bit embarrassed, which really shine in this performance.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Production and musicianship is on a high level, but the general song writing lets this album fall from a 4 to a 3

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

5/5

This isn’t a perfect album but there’s no reason not to give it five stars. JDB is absolutely on fire here and what a comeback for the band as they mourn Richey’s disappearance.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

Two stars for song writing and musicianship which is there but the aggressive mixing of stereo separation and panning effects is hard to get on board with.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Nice enough, in parts sounds great but not hugely memorable.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield A new one for me. Immediately compared it to What’s Going On and on first listen I felt it was far inferior. I still think it the lesser album but there’s plenty of brilliance here, even if some of the tracks feel like one or two ideas repeated. The percussion and brass and strings and the mixing of all that sound is a real highlight.

Rocks

Aerosmith

4/5

Rocks by Aerosmith When Aerosmith were good.

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

To release on of your best albums as your first album is pretty astonishing.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

Ugh wanted to like it but it found me on a day when I just felt it was grating.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis It’s the best selling jazz album of all time for a reason. The sound of the recording is incredible, the playing is so good. Not to mention it’s a groundbreaking moment in jazz and the history of Miles, Coltrane, Evans etc. if there’s any criticism of this album it’s heavy on the balladry but there’s enough ferocity and exploration from Coltranes solos to make up for that for me.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

In The Court of The Crimson King, by King Crimson

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

In various times, I've really enjoyed this album, however on this listen the one-note-ness of it all really came forward.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

The xx

2/5

Snore

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

3/5

Shades of Bowie, in places shades of Pink Floyd, too. But there's nothing outstanding about this album, it's nice enough.

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I wish more music sounded like this, but then it wouldn't be Stevie special would it?

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

Yuck.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

For a long time this was my favourite Radiohead album. It’s weird and sad and bleepy and jazzy. It was my introduction to the electronic side of their discography whilst Kid A is the better album this one holds a special place in my heart. Also it has Knives Out which is maybe a perfect song, despite its creepy subject matter.

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

It’s their “classic album”

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

I really enjoyed this. I'm on a bit of a retro electronic music phase at the moment, Autechre and the like. Considering this was made in the early nineties, roughly the same time R.E.M. were releasing Out of Time and Automatic for the People, this is surely a fairly groundbreaking album, even if it's not the most interesting. There are definite shades of Autechre here; you can hear some of these sounds on Amber which is a couple of years later, so the line of influence from stuff like Orbital to Autechre and through the electronics of the 2000s is probably fairly clear at least from a newbie listener.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Eddie Davies is worth the price of entry for his fabulous saxophoning.

One World

John Martyn

4/5

This would probably get another star if the singers voice wasn’t so…. Yeah. The music is other wise pretty fantastic.

Fred Neil

4/5

Surprised by this. I really, really enjoyed this.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Future Days

Can

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

I enjoyed the music, the production was nice, in places low-fi and kinda unfiltered. On the whole the music didn't do that much for me, and the album as a whole didn't feel tight enough, just a random collection of songs.