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Album	You	Global	Diff
Is This It	5	3.82	+1.18

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Da Capo	1	2.82	-1.82
Aftermath	2	3.39	-1.39
Hybrid Theory	2	3.38	-1.38

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Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

It’s hard, looking back now, to remember just how fresh and different this sounded. The world has moved on but this album is still full of the cocksure swagger of people too young to know better. I don’t feel like I can give this an objective rating. So I won’t.

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Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

This is clearly contemporary to ‘70s Bowie. Some wild swings artistically. Bitter-Sweet was a standout.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

A couple of great tunes (Under My Thumb, Out Of Time) in an otherwise unremarkable British ‘60s blues swamp. Going Home was a particular boring slog.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Hard to be mad at those folksy harmonies. Some absolute classics here (America, Mrs Robinson, Hazy Shade of Winter). I can trace a through line from Dylan to this to The Kinks ‘Village Green…’

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Rather than feeling like a document of the time, this album still feels alive. Great storytelling and the sound of a band that all lift each other up to be better.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

A big influence on the early work of The Beatles, and all the songs here are good. The band are especially tight, and Richard’s vocals have many imitators and no equals. In the end though it was just kinda fine.

Da Capo

Love

1/5

I didn’t enjoy side A of this undoubtedly cutting edge exploration of blues rock. Opening with a harpsichord didn’t instil confidence, and my instincts were sadly accurate. Little did I know that I would look back on these tracks fondly as I slogged through the 18 minute long free-form blues jam of side B.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

I’d heard the singles before, but never the whole album. In the End is unsurprisingly the best thing on this album. So much of this sounds like a petulant teenage tantrum, with rapping that wouldn’t be out of place on a Lonely Island parody.