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Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	5	3.65	+1.35
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.77	+1.23

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Album	You	Global	Diff
American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash	1	3.89	-2.89
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
Myths Of The Near Future Klaxons	2	3.06	-1.06
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	2	3	-1

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Yeezus

Kanye West

3/5

Raw and biting. I love the way every track sounds, the unconventional metallic sampling and the unkempt energy it brings. The slower more mellow tracks would probably be fantastic while high. That being said, the whole album is quite vile, the lyrical content is often incredibly womanising and full of ego. Its bad enough to the point that it probably should knock it down to a 2*, but I'm gonna keep it at 3 for now

1 likes

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

God damn.

1 likes

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Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Each song has its own charming and mysterious world. Maybe I don't quite understand them yet, maybe my ability to focus is too worn down to really absorb it all, but I want to come back to them. Instrumentation was vibrant and diverse, particularly the different instrumental inflections in Master's Song

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Very smooth, Sarah's voice is astounding. As a straight-through live recording it's pretty slick with no real fluff or filler in between. particularly like stairway to the stars and how high the moon where she "forgets" all the words. Can get a bit samey as it's 90% ballads

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

1/5

Am honestly a bit bored, it's all quite samey and while Johnny's voice is wonderfully rich, the lyrics don't really carry these songs. Apparently these are mostly covers which almost make it worse, like this is all you did?

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Consistently strong throughout but none of the songs necessarily blow me away (even California Dreamin), just a simple selection of great tunes

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Unfortunately a bop, was gonna rate this lower due to the lyrical content (often p repetitive, surface-level and VERY misogynistic) but damn I'd be lying if I said they weren't a lil catchy. The production is CLEAN, instrumentals go crazy hard, and there's some sick hooks in there

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

The Beatles meet Jack Stauber. Delightful :) (I had previously rated this 5* but had to knock it down out of gut instinct, it's still incredibly charming but in a very kitsch box-of-sweets way)

Yeezus

Kanye West

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Out of all the artists I've reviewed, these guys are the ones I reckon are most improved when seen live. Something about the sound world clearly lends itself so well to a visual performance. The overall vibe is fab, I really enjoy how layered the album sounds as a whole. That being said, it all kinda melds into one timeless clump of funk, so doesn't work quite as well as an 'album' of sorts

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

God damn.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

This album would slap if I was a 14 year old who just finished school for the summer. I'm not, but it's fun to try and enjoy the album as if I was. What are half of these songs about

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Honestly I like the overall sound but the singing style frustrates me to no end. It's basisally impossibls to tell what is being said and it's purely because of this falsettoey-slidey way he sings everything, and clearly the lyrics mean a lot just by looking at them, so I'm a little baffled. Maybe it's a feature of the genre idk but it grates me

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Delightful. Minimalist-esque which I always rock with. A fun whistle-stop tour of... something. Not entirely sure what. But it's lovely, its memetic in the good way. Could do so many tasks to this soundtrack

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

I would've loved to be there. What an atmosphere!! Also appreciate how he says the lyrics just before the audience need to sing them so everyone can take part. Wish they did that at all concerts. His voice is also just immaculate and it's all so fun

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

What is this random mf album I've never heard of it in my li- ohhhhhhh I know this song. Pretty good, laid back, swanky.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Pretty legendary crossover. That's about it

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Honestly pretty forgettable. I like its sort of smoky allure and the instrumentation is often great but idk man. I can't really make out the vocals half the time and I just don't see myself revisiting it

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Listened a while ago and I honestly remember nothing from it so it gets 2

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Honestly quite nice. There's a strange air to it, particularly from 'In the Ghetto' as well as just thr album title but it's probably well meaning? Lovely album to drift out to

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Kept zoning out while listening to this but in a lovely way. There's something really smokey and sleek about this album. The lore behind Personal Jesus is great too