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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	5	3.7	+1.3
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	4	2.81	+1.19
Disintegration The Cure	5	3.86	+1.14
Lazer Guided Melodies Spiritualized	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
xx The xx	2	3.36	-1.36
Melody A.M. Röyksopp	2	3.2	-1.2
Cypress Hill Cypress Hill	2	3.14	-1.14
Dirty Sonic Youth	2	3.11	-1.11
Immigrés Youssou N'Dour	2	3.09	-1.09
Make Yourself Incubus	2	3.08	-1.08

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Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Most beautiful! America encapsulates youthful love, adventure, longing & melancholy. “Kathy, I said as we boarded the greyhound in Pittsburgh…the moon rose over an open field…I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why… I took a bus cross-country to my beloved and this resonates so deeply.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Every song sounds the same. There is a ZZ Top sound for sure but not for me.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Roundabout Long Distance Runaround Mood for a Day - Renaissance sound Heart of the Sunrise - nice singing Nice contrapuntal sounds, good use of classical influences and incorporating favorite pieces, prog rock - not exactly happy w/high pitched singer but like their sound overall Rococo keyboard by Rick Wakeman

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

This is mastery of all elements that defined a generation!!!! Almost every song is a classic. Hey Joe Wind Cries Mary Foxey Lady Are you Experienced Guitar is so beautiful and hallucinogenic - strong and melodic, supple and powerful -had so much emotion. The trio is very powerful and Jimi’s voice is as masterful as his guitar despite not having the full range.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Rock & Roll Girl Storyteller Thrums Life Does grunge like the best of them & writes lyrically Good Fortune - I feel like a bird of paradise - you share in her love story. This Mess We’re In - masterful pairing w/Thom Yorke - builds to a romantic crescendo just like the story being told. Some of the album repeats itself.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Lovestory & Friday I’m in Love are so romantically goth. Positive despite the cold. Masterful goth!

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Classic!

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

2/5

Play

Moby

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

2/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Amazing lyrical mashup of so many genres. I felt the same way ad when I first listened to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life - this album goes straight to some deep part of the self that recognizes a true visionary.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

They break ground here with songs like Bike. Trippy & wild. Shape of things to come for them!

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

2 of the greatest songs of all time with instantly recognizable riffs. Keith showing up as the guitar god he is. Lots of new directions being tried here. I was really woved by how great Monkey Man was. Despite all this greatness - not a five or even 4 star for me - the in-between songs drag & are not for me & Midnight Rambler is hella a scary!. I would give it a 3.5 but since there is no half ranking giving it a 3.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Nina Simone’s voice is like a broken heart speaking - the way she teases out the pain from somewhere that is gut wrenchingly ephemeral and so deep. With every word your soul breaks, history is told and you understand something you can’t explain but is eternal.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

While there is a symphonic grandeur to their music, it ultimately bored me to death!

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

While there is a symphonic grandeur to their music, it ultimately bored me to death!

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Is there a supermarket, store, restaurant, bodega or cafe where at this very moment the song Moondance isn’t playing it’s sweet tragic and timeless romance? I doubt it! Van Morrison brings such a melding of jazz and folk into his amazing voice - making this album timeless! There are so many 5 star songs on this album - Moondance, & It Stoned Me & Into the Mystic that it should get 5 stars from me -but a couple of songs don’t reverberate in the same way listening anew to this one of my favorite all time albums.

The xx

2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Classic for a Reason! Woodstock generation’s romantic and lyrical & harmony masterpieces!

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Lovely album. It doesn’t break ground for someone like me who loves modern classical music like that of Kenji Bunch. It was very relaxing & a great discovery! Eno has a golden touch!

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Cypress Hill

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5