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Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.43	+1.57
Station To Station David Bowie	5	3.69	+1.31
Space Ritual Hawkwind	4	2.69	+1.31
Atomizer Big Black	4	2.72	+1.28
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
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	2	3.36	-1.36

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Classic R&B and the blueprint for rock n roll.

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

A brilliant point in Bowie's career when you can actually hear the transition between what went before and where he was heading.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Classic Blues (Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Kings Albert & BB) mixed with strong Malian influence. A break from the norm for me and highly enjoyable.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Overblown, outrageously theatrical, powerful, fun, classic, karaoke-able.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Easy to dismiss as 'easy-listening' Euro-cheese but it's well-crafted electro-pop that has found a way into western consciousness through air-play (pun intended) and the background music in movies, series and adverts.

Ramones

4/5

Much the blueprint of what became 'Punk' for bands such as The Sex Pistols and others in speeding up and amplifying the classic 50s rock n roll formula with a stripped-down approach and sense of humour. However, it's important not to forget that The Stooges, The New York Dolls and more were already paving the way.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Not quite as good as Wings Greatest Hits but some great tracks proving Paul McCartney was still a viable talent post-Beatles. Although, I don't subscribe to the 'all killer, no filler' opinions, I do understand how this quietened many post-Beatles detractors. Solid effort by Macca & co.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

2/5

An accessible East Coast debut. Decent story-telling, but I found the beats repetitive and I don't feel that it was breaking new ground considering Dre's The Chronic and Wu Tang's 36 Chambers preceded this.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

That voice! Tracks I thought were Joplin solo works and very cool instrumentation. Amazing stuff, especially for the time.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

Vulnerable, plaintive, fragile, intimate, hopeful.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

The sound of Christmas - second only to Vince Guaraldi Trio's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' for me.

Metallica

4/5

The album that brought Metallica into the mainstream and saw their popularity explode. Massive singles, more commercial production, less-complicated songwriting but still a great 'tallica album 🤘🤘

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Ignoring the 'is this punk or not' arguments this album seems to have it all: social commentary (much of it still relevant), reggae, rockabilly, rock and, of course, punk attitude. As an album of its age it still stands the test of time.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Sandy & co arguably at the height of their powers mixing US and British folk to create a timeless classic.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

As essential as Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On?' for social commentary? I think so.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Overlooked by many but one of my faves.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Didn't really grab me and I bailed before the end.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

A few great tracks and some filler; not her strongest in my opinion but it was a debut that promised more great things to come.

Atomizer

Big Black

4/5

Tinged with Joy Division and Killing Joke with hints of early Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, and Ministry. This early industrial rock album still stands the test of time.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Between this and Breakfast in America it's hard to escape Supertramp at hifi shows. That said, it's for good reason that these albums are used to show off audio equipment. Superb musicianship and songwriting and these album just seems to flow.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Definitely one to chill out to. Sci-fi stories and psychedelia, rock and rockets.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Loving the vibe but could do without the chat between tracks. Some excellent guests and classic references.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Still a strong whiff of blues, but an album that's above 50% genius held together by some amazing musicians and Planty's pipes. Good effort, reckon they might have a few more albums in them yet.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

While only just over 30mins long, this album is why Aretha is the Queen of Soul.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

A beguiling album but one I don't see as becoming a regular listen for me, even with the post-Peppers production elements. Still, it held my attention as it drew me in.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

The musical journey through the album's themes makes total sense to me. Even though getting close to my limit for modal/hard bop/post bop this is a wonderful piece of work.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Stream of consciousness lyrics and a first person POV of schizophrenia (Dark Globe). The album feels like random thoughts put to tape, and therefore as intimate as it is confusing.