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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian	5	3.23	+1.77
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.31	+1.69
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.83	+1.17
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.94	+1.06

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	1	3.45	-2.45
Garbage Garbage	1	3.38	-2.38
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.96	-1.96
Roots Sepultura	1	2.79	-1.79
Dummy Portishead	2	3.71	-1.71
Chore of Enchantment Giant Sand	1	2.64	-1.64
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.58	-1.58
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.43	-1.43
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	2	3.33	-1.33
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	2	3.01	-1.01

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Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

2/5

Upbeat and fun at times but mostly giving melancholic vibes. It’s as if Glass, Eno and Fripp formed a chamber pop band obsessed with manic depression and suicide.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Tracks 1-8 really hit; masterfully produced, akin to old folk murder ballads the story-telling is shocking and raw, but similar to Greek tragedy; satirical and relatable. Slim’s hamartia is on full display. Track 9 feels like a forced cameo and 10 is a path back from the detour. On track 11 we, the demos, once again delve back into the beautifully violent and shocking catharsis of Mathers. 12-15 present more detours and cameos… and then we are faced with the deus ex machina; the full force of Mather’s violent psychosis on track 16. The emotion is palpable. Tracks 17 and 18 are similar to a choral ode.

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

On first listen it sounds like a fun pop album with enough quirkiness throughout to make it interesting… Rundgren’s dynamic production shines. However, some of the lyrics are cheesy and full of contrived rhymes; “the man who sailed around his soul, came back again to find a hole” or “fire they cried, so evil must die” “did you make disease and the diamond blue.” Overall I feel like I should be at some posh garden party, just outside of London, sipping G&Ts, surrounded by obnoxious people and revolting small talk.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Garbage

1/5

Gorillaz

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Mojo-tastic!

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Imagine if Van Halen was made up of castrated eunuchs.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Fan-fucking-tastic!!!! Sheer genius! Stewpot & company shine on this amazing recording!

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

1/5

How can such a talented artists make such a cheesy, disjointed, and pathetic album? No one can question his skill as a musician, composer, performer; all around artist, but Damn!, this album is just sad.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Rain Dogs is theatrical like indie films of yore, budding with freakish absurdity and vice. Waits transports us to the back alleys and the outskirts of town where depression mixes with longing and conflict is ripe; a nuanced beauty.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Memorable bars & crazy beats! Bringing anyone to their feet.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

The creative genius of Ray Davies; Quay Street carpet-layers and more!

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Great album, with some standout tracks, but it ultimately lives in the shadows of Smith’s lofi legacy.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

This album has some great tracks but at time it feels like listening to rehearsal or demo recordings. Definitely not a high point for Zeppelin.

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

They got their name from a Motörhead song but this album is a far cry from Lemmy. Apparently it’s an album even hated by Metal heads for it’s simplicity and trendiness. I could have gone my whole life and my next life, and the one after that without ever hearing this garbage.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Amazing vocals, exquisite production. Spector may be a murdering asshole, but damn he was a musical mastermind!

Dummy

Portishead

2/5

90s Trip-Hop classic. Love the 007-vibe of Sour Times. Groovy Magic Mountain sample on Wandering Star. The repetitive slow tempo can get tiresome.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

RESPECT the Queen of Soul!