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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tago Mago Can	4	2.79	+1.21
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.5	-2.5
Eliminator ZZ Top	1	3.38	-2.38
Slayed? Slade	1	2.89	-1.89
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	2	3.7	-1.7
Rio Duran Duran	2	3.49	-1.49
Manassas Stephen Stills	2	3.07	-1.07

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Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Beautiful melancholy songs. Drake’s songwriting and guitar playing are wonderful as are the arrangements. The album is quite slight. The intro, outro and title track being 3 small mood pieces. They do fit the album perfectly, although I do find the title track a little annoying. Poor Boy is the only dud on the album, the jazz piano and choir doesn’t fit the rest. That leaves only 6 ‘proper’ songs but those six are spectacular and production and track listing make this feel like a cohesive set. I know Pink Moon very well and have heard Drake’s debut before, but this was a first time listen. Drake was a special talent.

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Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Competent, well played dad rock. Comparisons with Exile On Main St. do it no favours.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

This could be a greatest hits collection. Elvis is an English national treasure. Maybe his best work.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

I think this is the weakest of the 4 studio albums The Smiths released, not to mention the fantastic Louder Than Bombs compilation. This is still a good album. It’s probably their best produced album and you can hear the band evolving their sound but I do think the polished production actually takes the edge off the band a little. The first half is wonderful but I think it begins to drag from Last Night… Morrissey is in fine form and his performances here are more in line with his solo career (of which I am also a fan). I would have the debut and Bombs in the list over this and Meat is Murder.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Not an artist I had heard of before. I know very little Latin American music. I enjoyed this. Great 70’s sound. Funky, full of great rhythms and Jorge Ben seems effortlessly cool . This is the kind of stuff I want to discover from doing the list.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

80’s synth cheese. I’ve never taken Duran Duran seriously and I only know the hits but this is a whole album of danceable upbeat pop. I’m pleasantly surprised by how listenable I found it. It slows down for the last two songs and I especially liked the closer. I’ve had the song Rio in my head all day since hearing it.

Joanna Newsom

3/5

Poetry set to music. One day is not nearly enough to really judge whether this is good or not. I’m certainly intrigued. The instrumentation is beautiful and there are some wonderful lines littered throughout. It’s heavy going. I feel the need to stop after each ‘song’. This has been on my listen list since it came out so it’s nice to finally give it a go, but it’s very demanding and I feel its secrets are still mostly locked away.

Slayed?

Slade

1/5

Meat and potatoes rock and roll, lacking salt. Music for the pub. I can hear the influence of better bands all over this. It’s a fine listen but I really don’t think you have to listen to this before you die. Slade will always have Christmas.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

It’s over long and indulgent but it’s also filled with great songs.

The Band

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Capital C Country. I don’t know the genre that well but I certainly prefer Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins to this. There is a brevity to this which I did like and a few songs did stick out. I liked Drink up, Someone told my story, If you want to be my woman, Skid row and Mixed up. The back half certainly stronger for me.

Foo Fighters

1/5

Foo Fighters are a singles band. Foo Fighters are made for festivals. Every album has a few hits and that’s all you need. Here it’s the first three tracks. It is impressive Grohl did everything on the album and I like that it’s less polished than what follows, it’s very 90’s indie/grunge. I don’t think this album or this band should be one this list.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Grunge, garage rock, punk rock, alternative rock. Whatever you want to call it, Mudhoney play it fast and loose. Love that they aren’t po-faced like so many of their contemporaries. The production, which sounds like it’s coming through a busted college radio, is a plus in my book. (What did it sound like when it was coming through a busted college radio?)

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

A pivotal album by a great band.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

Pushing the boundaries so far, that it sounds like it’s from the future.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

Music in the 80’s didn’t suck, but this album is very convincing evidence to the contrary.