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Album	You	Global	Diff
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	5	2.89	+2.11
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.33	+1.67
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	5	3.44	+1.56
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.48	+1.52
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	4	2.82	+1.18
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	4	2.82	+1.18
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	1	3.18	-2.18
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	2	3.64	-1.64
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.39	-1.39
Opus Dei Laibach	1	2.39	-1.39
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	2	3.32	-1.32
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	2	3.28	-1.28
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	3	4.05	-1.05

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Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy · 1 likes

2/5

A double live album is a tough introduction to a band, they're really more for established fans. At the end of the first song he says "is there anybody here with any irish in them? is there any of the girls who would like a little more irish in them" So there's that Two stars

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Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Find it hard to stay engaged.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Can't see myself every returning to this.

Achtung Baby

4/5

'One' alone makes this a three star album, the rest of the tracks have enough to bring it up to a four.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Respect gets this three stars, and that's where it stays.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

I've always loved how unhinged this album is

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

I had always had a bee in my bonnet about this album after Pitchfork rated B.O.B the best song of the 2000's (I used to care about those things). I didn't like that song then, and I don't particularly now, but the rest of the album is pretty great, and Ms. Jackson is a classic.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

I was not familiar with this artist at all. Kinda why we do this right? It was an interesting listen, maybe a little too all over the place?

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Really struggled with this one. I think the genre is just not for me. I enjoy a lot of post-rock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai etc - agenre that was certainly influenced by this stuff.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Wow. I had completely forgot that this artist existed, but back in the late 90s 'More Bits and Pieces' made it into my winamp. It was fun then and this album is fun now (once i could find it)

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

I really enjoyed this, I know of Kraftwerk but hadn't sat and listened to an album. Fun fact - I didn't know 'The Model' was a Kraftwerk song, I only knew the Big Black version.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

1/5

Wow. This is awful. Completely and utterly awful, from start to end. I had wondered if I would give any one star reviews to a list of supposed great albums, and on day 11 here we are. I can't believe how bad this was, in every single facet.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Hmmm. Maybe I am setting the bar too high, but this is meant to be a best albums ever list. I enjoy early Beta Band, I think I had lost interest in them by the time this record came out. I'm surprised it is on the list to be honest.

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

I really enjoyed the first track, probably the best discovery I've made doing this in these first dozen or so albums, but the rest of the album doesn't compare.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Ha. Look. Thrash metal isn't my thing, but I can appreciate what is going on here.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

I already knew The Killing Moon but that was it. I think I enjoyed the rest of this, gave it a few spins, obviously not a record that reveals itself on the first listen, but left me wanting more.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

Another one that is so hard to judge in one day, I feel there is a lot here, I'm keen to listen more. Obviously have heard of this band, but the couple of times I've tried to engage it hasn't stuck. Did enjoy this tho!

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Ray Charles and Country and Western music. Two things that are relatively unknown to me. It is hard to know where one starts and the other ends. One thing I can say for sure is that I didn't need a double album of this, maybe I would have liked it a little more if it was just the first volume. That being said I didn't dislike it, it just dragged a little. And the lyrics, oh my god, get over it man, there's plenty more fish in the see. The one about being scared to go to sleep may be one of the worst things I've ever heard.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

This is another one that I've not listened to for 25 years. In the same ball park as Coldcut, I think this probably made a bigger splash back in the day? Not sure how well it has aged - I feel music like this has more been incorporated into other genres than continues to exist as its own thing. Enjoyable to revisit, but won't make it any further than that.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

I think I first found this album when I was about 10 years old. As a kid in suburban Australia I'm not sure how exactly, but I remember we were allowed to bring tapes in to class in sixth grade to play and I accidentally brought this in. It still sounds amazing now.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Look, I quite enjoyed this. Is 4 stars being a bit generous? Maybe. There's not many albums where I would happily say "oh just ignore the last twenty minutes", but there you go.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

I really enjoyed the first half of this, to the point where I was asking myself if I was going to give five stars to an album I'd never heard before. I mean that's the dream right, that's why I'm here. But unfortunately the second half was nowhere near as good. I'm not even sure if the first half was on relisten. Who knows, but it did make me feel something and for that I am thankful.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

I don't think you can get any more three stars than this.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

I feel like I have had a lot of soul here in these first few weeks. I enjoyed this more than either Ray Charles or Aretha Franklin, tho I'm not sure I'm fully across the genre yet. All three albums have had a LOT of covers!

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

An easy 5 for me. Have listened to this pretty regularly since I first discovered them many years ago. Still sounds as fresh and exciting today.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Hey look, I have a soft spot for this kinda stuff. Haven't listened to this for a while but enjoyed revisiting it.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

I have a very special connection to this album. I was living in Berlin in the second half of 2012. It was a ten minute walk from our apartment to the bar where my girlfriend worked. I used to listen to Pyramids on this walk. Putting this album on instantly takes me back there. Can't say I listen to it much anymore, but core memory = five stars.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

I appreciated something different and new to me, but it didn't really grab me.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Sorry Frank, this is just not for me

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Yeh nah

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Once of the songs is called 'any major dude will tell you' which may well be one of the best song titles I've ever heard. Unfortunately the song doesn't live up to the title, and the as album as a whole is a bit nothingy.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

This was pretty awesome.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Yep, this is nice.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Brilliant album. I don't listen to it as much as I used to, but it is timeless. Iconic cover too!

The Band

3/5

Was quite disappointed by this. I loved The Basement Tapes, wanted to like it. Three stars is probably more than I actually feel right now.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Enjoyed more than I expected!

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

I thought this would be worse than it was. It was fine, but just probably not something I will come back to.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

This was good yeh.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

I like a lot of Talking Heads, but I don't have any albums that I love. Hate to be an Alan Partridge, but if you asked me for my favourite Talking Heads album I'd have to say 'The Best of Talking Heads'

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

I really liked this album when it came out. I don't anymore, but will give it a bonus star for memories.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

I knew the singles but not the album, the track Back to Black is just killer, but I enjoyed the whole thing. 4 stars.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Man these double albums are tough to get through. I guess these guys went on a long journey to end up where they ended up.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

No complaints here, this was a lot of fun.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Not as iconic as The Queen Is Dead, and it loses its way a little towards the end ( tho I won't share you more than steadies the ship), but still a pretty easy five stars from me.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

I usually listen to these albums a couple of times, but it was tough with this one being a double album and it being a Saturday so it only got one. Looking at the plays on Spotify there was a track near the end with far more than any other, so I thought that might bring things together and explain the album's inclusion on the list. But alas, no.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Enjoyed this one a lot.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Brand new to me, only got one listen in but enjoyed it, will revisit so it gets 4 stars

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Another jazz album that came and went without making much of an impression