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Album	You	Global	Diff
NEU! 75 Neu!	5	3.09	+1.91
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	5	3.27	+1.73
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	4	2.9	+1.1

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.1	-2.1
Stripped Christina Aguilera	1	2.87	-1.87
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	2	3.52	-1.52
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.5	-1.5
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	2	3.47	-1.47
Abbey Road Beatles	3	4.45	-1.45
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
This Is Fats Domino Fats Domino	2	3.37	-1.37
The Yes Album Yes	2	3.31	-1.31

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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Not my vibe, sorry.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

You could get lost in this quite easily, it had a lot going for it. I enjoyed it.

Abbey Road

Beatles

3/5

People rate this, but I think it's their weakest post-Pepper album.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

It's just a great record. It was a sign of more greatness to come from him.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

It had some good moments but overall was too drawn out and up its own arse.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

The hits are undeniable. The rest.... it ain't great.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Some good moments in this, Cities and Life During Wartime in particular, but also it does just ramble on a bit, and I don't rate David Byrne as a singer.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Will I ever really like Led Zeppelin? I don't think so. This got better as it went along but I can't say I'll ever listen to it again.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

4/5

This band could have been so much more. This record is great, so many layers to it.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

The reason I loved this record so much when it first came out was that it was essentially a compilation of all their previous releases. At the time, I was longing to find a band I'd never heard of that had a rich back catalogue that I could explore, and The Hives were that band, and this was that record.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

A nice listen, not sure why Spotify has Respect on it twice, but it's not unwelcome.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

A formative listen for the younger David Macnamara, and I reckon it'll also be one for my 10-year-old son too, which is somewhat troubling.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

1/5

Nah, can't be having this on my algo.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

One of the best rap records from the start of the century

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Some interesting bits to this but it all sort of went over my head.

Achtung Baby

5/5

Top 5 best Irish records, easily. Probably Top 3, if we're being honest.

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

Musically, it was quite exciting. Vocally, it was unenjoyable.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

A surprisingly high number of bangers in here.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

This is the quintessential Billy Bragg record.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Listened to this many years ago and never got into it.

NEU! 75

Neu!

5/5

It chuggs along but it also floats along. It's really great.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

It had some promise really lacks anything that massively captured my attention.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Solid record, I enjoyed it

Technique

New Order

3/5

Starts out promising, as if someone had just discovered a new music toy, but as it progresses, it sort of becomes a bit repetitive.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Willie Nelson, live from the cocktail lounge!

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

A few hits of note, but not my cup of tea.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

I find this quite boring and dated.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

Lot of music going on here, probably too much if we're being honest.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

One of those records that just fills your room with nice music and you can let it ease over you.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

It's not my favourite Stones record, but I think its the record that most defines the band.

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

The peaks are great, the troughs are pretty unremarkable.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

A good entry point for CCR, it was interesting.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Just fucking boring, non-descript 80s music.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

What a way to open a record! This is a classic, one to go back to time and again.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

It got better towards the end, but I didn't love it.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

I'm with Nick Cave on this one, RHCP are shit. I remember when this came out, and I liked it, and it's a deeply shameful period of my life that I wholly regret. Even paid actual cash to see them live on more than one occasion!

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Beautiful record. Shame he's a wrong'un.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

I know this is good, I just can't love it as much as I loved OK Computer. I remember when it came out, it was so innovative, everything about it was just like...."this is what the future could be..." but I just wasn't ready for it. Or want to be ready for it.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

Fairly unremarkable.

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

Not for me.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Some classics in there, but also, it could be 3-4 songs shorter, and no one would be too upset.