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Album	You	Global	Diff
One World John Martyn	5	2.82	+2.18
Wild Wood Paul Weller	5	3.09	+1.91
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	5	3.1	+1.9
Goo Sonic Youth	5	3.24	+1.76
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.41	+1.59
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	5	3.42	+1.58
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Moon Safari Air	5	3.58	+1.42
Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.73	-1.73
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	2	3.33	-1.33
The Specials The Specials	2	3.3	-1.3
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.29	-1.29
The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones	2	3.25	-1.25
Le Tigre Le Tigre	2	3.13	-1.13
Hypnotised The Undertones	2	3.06	-1.06
Crocodiles Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.05	-1.05
Groovin' The Young Rascals	2	3.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	4.67
Pink Floyd	2	5

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Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Really cool, although I don’t love the title track. Not the greatest Bowie, but it’s still Bowie.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Not a big Blur (or Britpop) guy, but Parkife, Badhead, To the End, Magical America (great chorus!) and This Is a Low are great songs. Besides that the album mostly swings between annoying and irrelevant.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

What a great album, would hate, if they made a cringy hollywood movie about the creation process.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Pure power & ecstasy.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Prince is an absolutely fascinating artist. There are more ideas in some of his songs, than on entire records by others. That can be overwhelming at times, but is mostly just impressive. My only criticism is, that this album here is too long and the incredible ~50 minutes in there are watered down by some more forgettable songs, e.g. "It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night". Those songs aren’t even bad at all, but just a weirdly benign distraction of the moments that let you live in the genius that was Prince. (vinyl)

The Stone Roses

3/5

I'll admit, that I've never heard of The Stone Roses before today, which makes it a first in this pretty fresh project of mine. My first impression wasn't to great, as "I Wanna Be Adored" bored me pretty immediately and reminded me of a less creative version of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love", but from the song "(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister", I was pretty hooked. The following songs "Made of Stone" and "Shoot you Down" were also of my liking, while I didn't really care for the "This Is the One". "I Am the Ressurection" and "Fools Gold“ are very strong closers. Overall an interesting album, that is a little too reminiscent of 10cc, the Beach Boys and especially the Beatles, but generally enjoyable, with some cool ideas.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

Relatively uneventful, but it’s kinda hilarious, that every british band seems to have at least one song, that is so very clearly inspired by the Beatles. This time it’s "Wednesday Week". Probably the best song on the record, for that matter.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

VERY GOOD. I fucking love The Beatles (vinyl)

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Impeccable (vinyl)

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

OYE CÓMO VA MI RITMO BUENO PA GOZAR MULATA OYE CÓMO VA MI RITMO BUENO PA GOZAR MULATA OYE CÓMO VA MI RITMO BUENO PA GOZAR MULATA

Achtung Baby

3/5

Not bad, but pretty boring. One and Until the End of the World are good songs though.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

very long and pretty uneventful, but good pop music

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Beautiful music! "How Blue Can You Get?" is my personal favorite. My only point of criticism is, that the lyrics haven't aged greatly, but I think that's forgivable considering the time of it's release.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Without a doubt the most interesting album so far and probably a stable for the future. Songs I can get lost in, like Diaraby. Ry Cooder is a cool guy.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Loved Miss Me Blind and the general vibes. Somewhat tiring music at some point though.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

To be fair, it’s more about my appreciation of the endeavor, than my actual enjoyment of the record. Normally I would give it a 3, as it is so very clearly an 80s record, and with that just a little annoying, but I’m fascinated by Paul Simon, his ideas for this album, and the lasting impact it had on much of the pop music, that came after. The musicians are also simply amazing.

Talvin Singh

3/5

Good sound and energy. The mix of drum&bass with the indian harmonies and instrumentation is really cool and makes me want to move. In the end, it’s still not my preferred kind of tune.

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

There are these moments, that are pretty energetic and make me want to move, but also some, that are baffling in their annoyance. Doesn’t work in most situations, but walking home last night in the rain, it was definitely a mood.

John Prine

4/5

It pains me a little to give this beautiful album just four stars, but while I thoroughly enjoyed re-listening to it and John Prine is clearly one of the greatest songwriters, I feel like the album itself is more of a collection of very good to great songs, and not really an album, with a specific arc or a “story” told through the songs. Maybe that’s an unreasonable request, but was unfortunately somewhat limiting to my enjoyment of the listening experience. Alas, I still love you John. You are one of the greatest.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

It’s all one song, but that song is really good.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

still very good (vinyl)

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

I feel bad for giving it only three stars right now, but it didn’t catch me as much as contemporaries like 2001. On the other hand I really appreciated the lack of skits and relative shortness.

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Super smooth & enjoyable, but peaks with the opener and gets repetitive really quickly. Good for the background, boring for intensive listening.

Low

David Bowie

5/5

what a beautiful trip

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

very enjoyable pop music

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

5/5

I fucking love Leonard Cohen.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Would like to like it more.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

A couple of bangers, but too long and of course misogynistic, in my opinion.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Good, but didn’t do much for me.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

2/5

Very rough to rate. Not really enjoyable to listen to, but obviously very artistically impressive.

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

cool!

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

cool, but quickly tiring

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Le Tigre

2/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

a lot of fun. very enjoyable!

New York Dolls

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

great, that i finally spend some time with metallica, but not really my thing. first songs are super energetic, but the sound gets quickly old for me.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

very cool wilco-esque alt-country rock! minus 1 star, because ryan adams seems to be a pretty terrible guy.

The Rolling Stones

2/5

love the rolling stones, but this first endeavor wasn’t super interesting

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

unexpectedly a lot of fun!

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

i adore tv on the radio

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

actually really cool!

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

kate bush is very cool

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

don’t love the more medieval songs, but some songs are really beautiful!

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

some songs are great, but some are pretty forgettable. generally right in my ballpark!

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

love him or hate him, zappa is original as fuck

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

some great music, but the album itself doesn’t feel coherent

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

honestly, a very beautiful album. it’s only real weak spot is the starting deterioration into the pretty bland band coldplay is today, foreseeable in "clocks". besides that, "a rush of blood to the head" and "parachutes" would be inarguable all-timers, if we could ignore what happens after.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

good jazz, but nothing too interesting

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Queen II

Queen