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Album	You	Global	Diff
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Hunky Dory David Bowie	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
White Ladder David Gray	1	3.06	-2.06
Black Metal Venom	1	2.47	-1.47
Zombie Fela Kuti	2	3.46	-1.46
Imagine John Lennon	2	3.45	-1.45
Sulk The Associates	1	2.35	-1.35
Low-Life New Order	2	3.29	-1.29
OK Computer Radiohead	3	4.11	-1.11

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Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

3/5 good to hear the early days of grunge and proto garage rock but other than Gigantic and Broken Face fairly forgettable.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

4/5. A Bowie I had never encountered before. Excellent and melancholic.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Very mixed opinions. A few tracks fairy dull or overly wrong, but also some absolute bangers. Might revisit.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

A classic with a particularly strong opening seven tracks, however, it does tail off.

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

A mixed bag and do not really get the fuss. But Paranoid Android and Karma Police are great and might improve on repeated listens.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Excellent funky baselines (obviously). Very catchy and accessible rocky funk which I am delighted to be exploring.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

I have a sneaky feeling I know this. A bonified masterpiece that is responsible for inspiring so many other bands that I adore.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A bit too many long guitar solos for me tastes but tracks like Highway Chile are absolute bangers.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

An unexpected gem. Really enjoyable rnb with elements of soul.

White Ladder

David Gray

1/5

Turgid and dull crap.

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

A dull band I have never got the fuss over.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Excellent blues rock. Back Door and Travellin Band are bangers.

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Beyond Imagine and Crippled Inside turgid rubbish.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Excellent.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

Opening four tracks are stunning but it tails off after that.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Interesting rnb but not my thing. Much preferred the indie and funk inflected Solange.

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

Utter warbling bollocks.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

I find my feelings about jazz very complicated as I don't know what I am missing but I think the problem is with me.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Hip-hop is not my thing but this is the better end of the spectrum. Political and sharp.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Excellent desert blues. Really reminded me of John Lee Hooker.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Not my thing but it has grown on me with repeated listens. Each track has aspects that I like but that is not enough for each 15 minute epic to be worth regular revisiting.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

One or two tracks that interested me but generally a bit dull. However, I didn't dislike any of it but I doubt I will remember it in a weeks time.

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

My musical nightmare: an Unlistenable wall of noise. I honestly lasted one track before I couldn't take it anymore.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

Superb. Not an artist I had ever heard. Wonderful vocals, funk inflected rhythms and just made me want to dance.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Catchy hip-hop with some real funky and danceable backing music. A pleasant surprise.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Just wonderful. Beyond the famous singles tracks like Queen Bitch and Kooks are bangers.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Some of it gets a bit proggy for me but there are also some bangers.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

2/5

Again there is interesting stuff here but far too jazzy for me.

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Interesting 60s pop with some psychedelic elements to it but I didn't like it enough to go back to it.