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Album	You	Global	Diff
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.36	+1.64
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.63	+1.37
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Synchronicity The Police	1	3.41	-2.41
Ramones Ramones	2	3.57	-1.57
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.38	-1.38
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	2	3.2	-1.2
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	2	3.08	-1.08
The Who Sell Out The Who	2	3	-1

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David Bowie	3	4.33

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt · 1 likes

1/5

Ramblings of a mad man. Got to track 4 and had to call it.

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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Blur

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Fun… but loads of nonsense mixed in

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Enjoyed this more than the other 2 albums of theirs I’ve listened to. Last track drags big time though.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

2/5

First song was alright, 2 and 3 made me feel a bit ill. Cindy Tells Me had a nice bit of Bowie going on. Then Driving Me Backwards upset me again. Enjoyed the title track.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

The vocals become very grating after the 18th minute of cellular song and there is no respite following that. The wailing on swift as the wind sounds like he’s trying to wake up from the nightmare that is this album. First song is alright. They can thank me for the 2 stars.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

P-funk, uncut funk, the bomb. This is a certified classic.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

This is what live albums should be about. Puts you right there in the room with him. If I could give it 4.5 I would.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Perfect album

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

As far as Jazz records go, this is certainly one of them. Pleasant background music.

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

Didn’t mind it, can imagine enjoying it more on repeat listens. Last song is the one for me.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Pleasant enough, and I’m sure it would be lovely playing in the background with a ropa vieja cooking away, but I found myself getting bored quite early on.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Easily Lorde’s best work. Very cohesive pop record which doesn’t over stay its welcome.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Feel the same way about this now as I did when it came out, I just can’t get on board with the vocals. Fair play to the man because he was clearly on his last legs when he recorded this. It’s a well written record as you’d expect. Bang Nick Cave on vocals and you’ve got something I’d return to.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Not my cup of tea

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Really enjoyed this.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Quite difficult to rate this one. Enjoyed the more electronic parts, but the some of the lyrics were quite embarrassing.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Armageddon been in effect go get a late pass STEP! Classic, unrelenting and massively influential.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Blew the budget on their big single. The musical equivalent of a jazzle sweet, looks fun on the surface but it’s ultimately a bit naff and unsatisfying.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

A gold standard jazz record, but that can only equate to a maximum of 4 for me. I think if it had a touch less Wynton Kelly and a touch more James Cobb I could reconsider.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Feel like I’ve listened to every band around these but this one has passed me by. I enjoyed it, Jesus Etc I did recognise and that was the standout for me. Getting The Shins and Yo La Tengo similarities. Could easily be a 4 on repeat listens. You know what fuck it, it’s having a 4!

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

I dunno this one just doesn’t really fully click for me. I think it’s the long songs.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

The fella is a complete twat, but he was less of a twat back here, and this still holds up.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

Some decent songs, feels like a collection of demos though overall. Not a fan of the ones the other fella sings. Probably won’t return to this. Bubble & scrapes a 3.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

Really toes the line between peaceful and irritating.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Spittin’ straight fire for 40+ minutes. Go off Frank 😤

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Still not massively for me, but there was a time when this would have been scoring lower. I can get something out of it at least nowadays.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

It’s been done.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Bit of fun, but there’s a time and place.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Hit and miss, some clear standouts, others were a bit grating.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

It’s nice and chill but didn’t wow me. Feel like he came in on the wrong key on Reasons and it was too late to back away from it.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

1/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Decent, walked so El Camino could run.

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Enjoyable for a while but does get a bit annoying if you aren’t in the mood.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Go easy on the fags n booze Janis

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Enjoyable, chilled, good vibes. Strong 3.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Other than a couple of songs I didn’t really like it.

Ramones

2/5

I like blitzkrieg bop, but I get why I’ve never given this a chance before. God knows how anyone can make a distinction between any of these songs.

Fred Neil

3/5

Didn’t mind this. First song reminded me of Bill Callahan. Everybody’s Talkin’ is a straight up classic joint. Would happily bang this on sat round a poker table. You wouldn’t want more than 40 minutes of it though.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Not spectacular, singles are the clear standouts, did enjoy 40 as well. Ain’t bad either, just alright.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

Mostly boring, sometimes cringeworthy.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Pure class.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Ramblings of a mad man. Got to track 4 and had to call it.

Violent Femmes

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Classic, but last two tracks always get skipped for me. 4.5.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

3/5

I had a nice time, I’d have probably left before the encore though.

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

Quite fun, vocals get on your tits after a while. Equator can absolutely get fucked.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Not particularly my thing, but you can clearly hear they’ve put their heads together and worked hard on this. Reminds me of a mate’s dad who insisted on playing this in his car at every given opportunity.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

His best work for me. Following up commercial success from GKMC by bringing in the likes of Thundercat and Flying Lotus is bold, got to respect it. Just a really well written, well structured album that needs to be appreciated in full.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

A classic. Always preferred the first half mind, just too damn good.

Cross

Justice

4/5

Great fun, high energy, good time.

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Started out alright but tailed off during the middle. Apparently written as a soundtrack to a fictional film, I think he changed his mind on what the film was 2 or 3 times during recording this. Probably a 2.5.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Probably not top 5 Bowie for me, but still damn good.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

He’s got to catch you on the right day. Every now and again he’ll hit you with something where you are thinking ooh I wonder where this goes and then he rips it up entirely, what a tinker. Sprawling, cosmic jazz.