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Album	You	Global	Diff
High Violet The National	5	3.24	+1.76
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	5	3.5	+1.5
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32
Parallel Lines Blondie	5	3.76	+1.24
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.8	+1.2
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.92	+1.08
Like Water For Chocolate Common	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	1	3.84	-2.84
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.48	-2.48
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29
Woodface Crowded House	1	3.11	-2.11
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	1	3.08	-2.08
The Man Who Travis	1	3.01	-2.01
Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	1	2.91	-1.91
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.88	-1.88
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.63	-1.63
Madman Across The Water Elton John	2	3.59	-1.59

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Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder · 1 likes

5/5

You finish Side 1 and think “damn this is a great album” Then Side 2 opens with Isn’t She Lovely and it becomes one of the greatest album of all time.

1-Star Albums (8)

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KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Really enjoyed this album and I can't believe I'd not heard it yet! Probs 4 stars

Van Halen

2/5

I don't really like classic American rock! The best part of this was The Kinks cover

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

It’s Bowie! There so much of him! But it’s good. I like this

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Genuinely up there as a modern masterpiece for. Absolutely incredible album

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Its The Beatles! I know they are good! But also I listen to them and I feel bored But then Can't By Me Love comes on and holy moly I get it. (this will happen with every Beatles album. I don't think they are an album artist)

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

4/5

I think The Soulaquarians are probably the most important group of musicians of the 90s and 00s, this is so good

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

God this is a lot of DnB for a Saturday morning. I probably need to revisit this more in the mood. I can see the influence which always bumps ratings up for me, but not my sort of thing

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

What an absolutely weird album. The Police are a singles band for me and of course I know Every Breath You Take but to have it mashed into all these other really interesting tracks... Wow. Good stuff.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

I liked bits of this! Its nice also to have a name to this sort of sound with Qawalli

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Generational voice, never actually sat down and listened to him as a full album artist. Really special

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

1/5

Agonisingly boring.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Completely incredible. Cash's voice is divine, the humour between songs and the honesty of the prison system. Wow wow wow.

Dire Straits

4/5

Dire Straits are the classic rock band I really gel with and have been for all my life. Potentially a nostalgia thing but god Knopfler’s guitar is just a joy on every track

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I was so ready to dislike this as a) 90s rock bothers me b) its two hours long c) its Billy Corgen singing for two hours Eating humble pie. The highs on this album are incredible, I know the big ones but tracks like Galapogos and Thru The Eyes of Ruby are new discoveries that I just adored. It sprawls out over you and makes you take notice, it feels like a jungle that you hunt for the view from the top. Magic.

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

After yesterday I thought I would have to start reconsidering my 90s music dislike. No I'm still correct. GOD I'm so bored. (Why Does It Always Rain On Me slaps, and I quite liked Slide Show)

The Doors

4/5

Krieger’s guitar tone is one of my favourite noises in music and Morrison’s voice is iconic. Deserves the praise and then you get to The End and it’s this gorgeously big track that drives forward for the run time. Gives it an entire extra star.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

1/5

Appallingly boring in scope, lyricism and musicality. I’m trying to give it a fair listen but I just want to listen to anything else

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

You finish Side 1 and think “damn this is a great album” Then Side 2 opens with Isn’t She Lovely and it becomes one of the greatest album of all time.

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

I'm not really sure why this is in this list? Its not exactly anything exciting, and that Heaven cover is really quite bad? Hucknall's voice however is so good he needs to be on a house track.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Is this the best album ever? No not really, but I still enjoyed it! Treason is that song!? Obviously I think you can track the soundscape in British music from this new wave / post punk sound into the Britpop era of the 90s... but I have to ask why they moved so far away from this. This feels interesting.

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Guitars sound thick and dirty which I like, but I find Iggy gets lost over the top.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Real good album. Weird and trippy, all the stuff I like about The Cure

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

This is what I wanted from this challenge. I know how important Kraftwerk and this album is, but I never think “I should listen to this” so it’s just unlistened to me Holy shit. Just fantastic electronic music that you can let soundtrack your life in what you’re doing.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

This started out great and then it kinda faded for me? I love Ian Curtis's voice throughout though but ended a little samey.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

For some reason I expected this to be quite bad, apart from Band on the Run (banger) I had a banging time with this! Mrs Vanderbilt slips! Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five is a great closer! This might be my favourite Beatles/Beatles adjacent album I've heard in my life

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Started out annoyed by this, really grew on me as it went and was taken on a journey. Finished too early for me to fully love it though.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

A relief to have a different genre then the past few days of various rock outings Technically this is great. Dre’s production over Eminem’s flow is just so good, but I only really knew My Name Is and Guilty Conscience going into it I’ve had zero solo women in my list so far, and I feel getting this album before that is just rubbing it in my face. The misogyny and glee in the violence is properly off putting. I don't feel I'm in on whatever joke this is.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Immigrant Song kicks this off in the best fashion, but I was somewhat dreading an hour of that sound as I've never really gelled with Led Zepp beyond that I was wrong! This is a good album, with some gorgeous highs and lows and flow, with some tender moments backed up by 4 clearly super talented individuals. That's The Way a real highlight

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

The technicality on display on the guitars is great But I always feel I’m missing something slightly with metal. It doesn’t move me in the way other genres do.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

At points my favourite band ever. I think Eno in their latter albums makes them excel, but the rough edges and sounds here are just SO great. Don't Worry About The Government is one of my fave Byrne tracks, especially off American Utopia. On this it sounds scared but hopeful. Solo it sounds weary and full of worry. An evolution of a song through politics. Also Psycho Killer exists. Imagine writing that song! Just incredible stuff

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

This was a perfectly pleasant album that I’d have on in the background, after getting exciting about hearing Tiny Dancer

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

1/5

This was really not good and then I got to The Colony of Slippermen This is abysmal.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

The bass in this is great, but the album as a whole is slightly forgettable, I keep waiting for a big song but it never comes.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

I think The White Stripes were always a couple of years out from when I really got into music, so this is a joy of a new listen to me. Jack’s voice is so layered to me, the instrumentalism is fascinating

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Oh it turns out I love The Pogues? This is an absolute riot and Shane’s voice drawling over the top is just something special.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Enjoyable when working out, but perhaps not quite in the mindset for it.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

My judgement on chanson music is "How much do I want to smoke a cigarette during?" I would've maybe had two to this? But slowly and maybe with a French 75 cocktail. Enjoyed!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Longest yeahh boiiiiiii.mp3 So so great. The opening 3 tracks are just sheer excellence and the rest just builds to Heart of Glass and you're like... damn. Debbie Harry. Unreal woman.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

There’s a level of introspection on this album that from his debut that is interesting But Eminem continues to be homophobic and misogynistic in a way that is just uncomfortable.

High Violet

The National

5/5

Probs my fave band, audibly cheered when I saw this popped up this morning. I adore this album, Matt's lyricism is as close to poetry as you can get in music for me, and its coupled with this gorgeously rich baritone. He's so evocative especially on England and Conversation 16. The Dessner's back him up with both incredible production and guitars, whole Bryan thumps the tracks on with drums when needed. It's indie, it's hipster, its peak Pitchfork wankfest. It's fucking great.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

Completely fine, and I enjoyed the slightly more melodic tracks. Also credit Halford for being an openly gay man in this genre.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Jazz baby jazz Pretty good! Not my usual genre but I enjoyed it

Woodface

Crowded House

1/5

Some of these lyrics are absolute clunkers and its just so boring.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

Interesting stuff. You can kinda tell he was about to go into his Ambient era, and he's really trying things out. Not quite for me but respect the attempt.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Just a buzz that you get from these albums. Fun, raucous and you’re never sure where the next bar goes. Good stuff.