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Album	You	Global	Diff
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.86	-2.86
Teen Dream Beach House	1	3.27	-2.27
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	1	3.21	-2.21
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	1	2.83	-1.83
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
The White Room The KLF	1	2.78	-1.78
Birth Of The Cool Miles Davis	2	3.65	-1.65
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	2	3.42	-1.42

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Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Beautifully recorded and mixed. A little too consistently downtempo for me.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Not yet a caricature, but on the way. Good band buried in a so-so mix with too many pop overdubs.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

All time great. No filler, and at least 2 unassailable classics.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Clean, punchy production perfection. Tough, tight songwriting. Crisp, restrained performances. Hard to admit, I have only known the hits from this record, and there are plenty of them. Pretty hard to be both timeless and absolutely of it's time, but this record is both. 5 stars is not grade inflation.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

Not as mind bending as I was expecting, but then I am not listening in 1957. More alike than different from track to track, and while obviously stacked with talent, Miles doesn't stand out as much as he blends in. I would say his soundtrack to Ascenseur pour l'echafaud is a more immediate and personal record from the same period.

Dire Straits

3/5

The White Room

The KLF

1/5

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Can't stand the production. Too washy and verby for me. It is very of it's time.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

I hate Billy Joel. This album is all too well known to me, and I probably would have given a much higher rating before these songs were ground to dust in the last 40 years. One Star.

The Band

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Production is very dated. Hyper clean, and the guitar sounds are thin and brittle. I know there are great players on this, but they seem to be holding back. Seems to be trying to hearken back to an earlier style of country music, but is let down by the stilted tempos and the crystalline sonic palette.

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Common

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

Self-indulgent contrarian racket. I love that Zappa exists/existed, but really glad I don't have to hear it often. Not as clever as he thought it was? Or too clever to actually work? Dunno.

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Solid production that sounds immediate, not trendy. Good rock songs sung by a singular voice. Nothing groundbreaking, but earns it's place.

Black Sabbath

4/5

World changing. I used to think this album was a glimpse of what Black Sabbath would become, but it is a powerhouse record that is among the best first releases ever. Not only introduced the band, but created a new genre. Great sequencing. First 3 tracks come out swinging.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Elvis Presley

2/5

Dookie