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Album	You	Global	Diff
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.19	+1.81
Liquid Swords GZA	5	3.28	+1.72
Feast of Wire Calexico	5	3.29	+1.71
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	5	3.33	+1.67
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	5	3.36	+1.64
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	5	3.38	+1.62
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	5	3.4	+1.6
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	5	3.43	+1.57
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	2	3.84	-1.84
OK Computer Radiohead	3	4.1	-1.1

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David Bowie	2	5

5-Star Albums (31)

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Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

That sure is a sadboi in Portland

1 likes

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

This one feels like what I imagine "jazz" to sound like. Not sure how I feel about it.

1 likes

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Feast of Wire

Calexico

5/5

Felt unctuous. Dark maybe? Like a really good ramen broth.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Ma you're just jealous it's the beastie boys. Be more quinticential. But the stuff at the end of this album is fire.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

It's crunchy, it's driving, it's riffed up, it's ZZ Top!

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Great sound. Opening riff to Money for Nothing is bonkers

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Unplugging really shows Kurt's voice in an incredible light. I was not really feeling Nirvana today but that was more of a mismatch by me than anything. Will have to come back to it

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

It's not for me

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Amazing. Puts the king in BB King. Crunchy blues

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

This was on the one hand, quite compelling. On the other, I don't think it's something I will seek out again. Hard to say

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

I was not super into this one

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Fantastic. Funky grooves.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

I've never thought of myself as a "jazz guy" but I really enjoyed this album. Maybe it's the samba? In any case, would listen again.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

4/5

It's pretty disco groovy. I liked it.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Kinda surprised how jazzy this turned out to be

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

The original of metal on full display it seems

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Funky and smooth

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

Great album! Gfunk at its finest

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

That sure is a sadboi in Portland

Liquid Swords

GZA

5/5

Loved it! Just classic boom bap right here

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Pretty punky. Never listened to the Pixies before and I'm glad I got the chance too

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

This is my favorite Beatles album

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Glad I got to give Joy Division a go finally. I think I need another listen to really get a good feel

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Also never listened to the Smiths before. Gotta say, for a dark/brooding sound, I liked it!

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

A classic case of not judging a book by its cover. Don't get the album art but the sound is nice

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Not sure how I feel about Morrissey. Kinda weird. Kinda whiny. Kinda nice. I just don't know

Gorillaz

5/5

I really liked this! Got a lot of sounds I didn't expect

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

I didn't really like this, but I think I wanted it to be something else. Worth a revisit

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

What an album! How did this get lambasted by critics??? Sort of sat in the country/blues space, which I did not expect.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Gotta remember to give this one another try. I listened to about half and liked it, but ran out of time

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

Really loved this one!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

What a great album! I've been really loving Steely Dan lately. It's funky and chill. Just great background stuff and at the same time actually worth sitting down to listen to!

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

Not super interesting? But maybe I missed the point. Or maybe I'm just not helped by the hits from this album playing at the local Border's Books and Music back in the day.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Not my jam, that's for sure

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

This one feels like what I imagine "jazz" to sound like. Not sure how I feel about it.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

The Wu-Tang album.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Really enjoyed this one! Deep, somber, heavy sounds. Beautiful.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

This one was a little tough to follow for me. At times it skewed folk, which I liked. But other times I just got lost

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Another fun one! I'm always up for a little Sly but this is my first time listening to a full Sly album, start to finish. I enjoyed the experience. Can't say there were any surprises, and I liked that too. Solid album to start the day with.

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Loved this one. Never heard of Joan Armatrading before but what a lovely album! Funky, smooth, full of emotion but never overbearing. This and a cup of coffee is an amazing way to start a fall morning.

The Doors

5/5

Better believe I get down to The Doors. In Almost Famous Lester Bangs (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) says, "The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet... Give me The Guess Who. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic." And I think that's nice. Sometimes you have to take a few swings above your weight class. Jim and the boys sure do on this record.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Sets the tone with the first one and stays right there for the entire album. Wall to wall Bowie, baybeee!!!!

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

This one started out far too busy for what I was prepared for. I need to go back and give it another go in a different frame of mind.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

It's a banger, ok. Poetic, calming, beautiful

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

I really enjoyed this one! It was interesting how the album sort of slowed down from start to finish

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Loved it! Vivacious

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Absolutely magnificent. Start to finish this one rips.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Pretty solid!

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Sensational! High energy. Beautifully blends piano and guitar over soulful, funky rhythms. Best enjoyed on a rainy morning with a cup of coffee when you have a BUNCH to get done today

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5