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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bummed Happy Mondays	5	2.65	+2.35
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	5	2.71	+2.29
Movies Holger Czukay	5	2.71	+2.29
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	5	2.72	+2.28
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	5	2.73	+2.27
Chris Christine and the Queens	5	2.81	+2.19
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	5	2.85	+2.15
Warehouse: Songs And Stories Hüsker Dü	5	2.86	+2.14
Fromohio fIREHOSE	5	2.88	+2.12
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Faces	5	2.92	+2.08

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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Bends Radiohead	3	4.02	-1.02

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Beatles	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
The Kinks	2	5

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I've listened to this album many times throughout my life, but I think that for progressive albums of this type, each time you listen to them you end focusing on different sections, so there's always a sense of novelty. Mike Oldfield recorded all the instruments for Tubular Bells at 19 years old, which is rather impressive. There's not a lot of, we could call it, "virtuosity" in the way the instruments are played, instead the focus is on storytelling through musical structures. There's some very memorable sections, like the slow vocal introduction of instruments at Part I 20:20 and the growling at Part II 11:45. Historically speaking, this is [Virgin Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Records)' first published album and was its earliest success. It's fun to read that the huge Richard Branson's present conglomerate had its beginnings in the early 70's as some record shop in Notting Hill Gate specializing in krautrock imports.

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Was a big fan of So Real through Spotify random recommendations but never looked up who the artist was, until now. Great chord progressions, great album. Ahead of its time definitely.

One of the best albums of all time, literally so good at storytelling