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Album	You	Global	Diff
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4	2.64	+1.36
Slipknot Slipknot	4	2.68	+1.32
The Grand Tour George Jones	4	2.79	+1.21

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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	2	4.43	-2.43
Murmur R.E.M.	1	3.42	-2.42
Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	1	2.91	-1.91
Morrison Hotel The Doors	2	3.59	-1.59
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	2	3.56	-1.56
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	1	2.39	-1.39
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	2	3.33	-1.33
Younger Than Yesterday The Byrds	2	3.13	-1.13
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	2	3.05	-1.05

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The Lexicon Of Love

ABC · 1 likes

4/5

The Lexicon of Love is an enjoyable slice of classic ’80s British new wave pop, weaving disco and funk into lush orchestration with big-band flair.

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Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

2/5

Widely revered, The Dark Side of the Moon left me admiring its craft more than feeling much of anything, ultimately coming across a bit blah.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water is filled with iconic lyrics, beautiful musicality, and a rich variety of styles and moods.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Easygoing and melodic to the point of feeling like elevator music at times, Jazz Samba still showcases the undeniable skill of its musicians.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Blending heavy metal, folk, pure rock ’n’ roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin IV weaves rich threads of Tolkien-inspired and hippie mysticism throughout.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

3/5

A sunny, good-vibes listen, Pelican West leans hard into jazz-funk grooves and infectious ’80s sax.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

Morrison Hotel is filled with bluesy melodies and a psychedelic rock undertone, making it an enjoyable listen even if it’s not my favourite Doors album.

Murmur

R.E.M.

1/5

Despite its reputation, Murmur felt dull to me, with many songs blending together and sounding too similar.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

With lyrics that read like street poetry layered over timeless ’90s hip-hop instrumentals, Illmatic was an album I surprisingly enjoyed more than I expected.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

1/5

Trying hard to sound clever and witty, Rattlesnakes instead comes across as pretentious, weighed down by flat, unremarkable melodies.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Beggars Banquet blends blues-rock swagger with flashes of political bite and catchy melodies, but only a handful of tracks truly stand out.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Locust Abortion Technician felt like a barrage of nonsense noise and lyrics to me, more an exercise in abrasive art than something I could connect with as music

2112

Rush

3/5

The first half of 2112 delivers a compelling prog-rock mini-opera, but the remaining tracks, though solid, feel fragmented and less essential.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

The Suburbs offers a relaxed, easygoing indie sound that’s pleasant without demanding much attention.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is a solid slice of ’70s classic rock, driven by enjoyable riffs and straightforward charm.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

‘Pictures at an Exhibition is an enjoyable live prog-rock opera, reimagining classical music through extraterrestrial funk and virtuosic synthesizer work

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

‘m b v drifts along as a calm, cohesive shoegaze haze that almost functions as one extended track.’

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Live and Dangerous is classic rock at its best, capturing the feeling of being front-row at a Thin Lizzy show with an expertly curated setlist of electrifying riffs and melodies that make you want to dance.

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Despite a powerful start, Hotel California suffers from a noticeable dip in energy, resulting in an underwhelming overall listen.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

While pleasant enough, Chemtrails Over the Country Club feels flat, offering little variation or emotional payoff.

Slipknot

4/5

A ferocious debut, Slipknot establishes the band’s place in the genre, led by drums that propel and amplify the album’s raw emotion.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Hunky Dory blends Bowie’s poetic lyricism with lush glam-rock melodies and orchestration to great effect.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

With everything from classic ’60s pop to mariachi trumpets, backwards sitars, and cosmic sound experiments, Younger Than Yesterday is an album that rarely feels cohesive or complementary

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

While the musicality and orchestration are compelling, Meat Is Murder is weighed down for me by its passive-aggressive lyricism and wailing vocal delivery.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Bookends aims for a reflective life-cycle concept, but beyond the familiar pull of “Mrs. Robinson,” it struggled to leave a lasting musical impression.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

The Lexicon of Love is an enjoyable slice of classic ’80s British new wave pop, weaving disco and funk into lush orchestration with big-band flair.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Ragged Glory fuses easygoing ’90s grunge with country garage rock, its rough charm defined by raw, memorable guitar work.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

The Grand Tour is old-school country at its finest, pairing crooning tales of love and heartbreak with simple, soulful strumming.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

With gravelly, spoken-word-like vocals and restrained melodies, You Want It Darker feels like a set of religiously charged reflections from a man at the end of his life.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

Mostly instrumental and stylistically scattered, Larks’ Tongues in Aspic feels like friends experimenting in a room more than a fully cohesive record.

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Arular is a genre-kleptomaniac collage, mixing countless styles into a politically charged, hard-to-pin-down debut.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

While the first half of She’s So Unusual shines with classic tracks, the second half leans into dated synth-pop that dulls the overall impact.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Blending chill hip-hop production with stark, socially conscious lyricism, The Score remains ridiculously relevant nearly 20 years later, with skits softening its heavier moments.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Overflowing with disco-funk grooves and infectious rhythms, That’s the Way of the World is made to get bodies moving.

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Ctrl drifts along on lo-fi, chilled beats and candid, NSFW lyricism, with songs that blur together into one continuous mood.