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Album	You	Global	Diff
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

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Ramones

4/5

Perfect execution of their vision for rock and roll. I just don’t love listening through it front to back.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

I do not get the appeal. A mix of psych rock that was done better on Strange Days, drunk local band blues that was done better on LA Woman, and a few silly ones. Peace Frog is a banger though.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Blue Rondo a la Turk and Take Five are classics. The time signature experimentation never feels like a gimmick, but a couple of the songs feel like they never really get going.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Creates a very specific mood very effectively. I like the instrumentals more than the vocals.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

80s radio rock. It’s a competent example of it, but I’m not a fan.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

High-octane arena rock, but the singer seems to be channeling the wrong Thom Yorke, like, We Suck Young Blood instead of Paranoid Android. Lots of neat production choices in each individual song, but the overall effect gets exhausting.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

More experimental than I expected having only heard Heaven or Las Vegas. Some of the songs feel like sketches, but the ones that are more fully fleshed out are very interesting.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

I have no idea if this is good and I am not particularly interested in listening to enough similar things to figure it out.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

The Doors

4/5

A little silly and self-serious, but there’s no denying they were onto something.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Doesn’t do it for me. There’s a section in Strange Kind of Woman where the singer parrots the guitar solo like in the outro to You Shook Me by Led Zeppelin, except instead of being one minute long and pretty cool, it’s like 5 minutes long and extremely annoying.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

I liked this a lot. Somehow feels loose and fresh even though it is obviously very meticulously put together.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

I gotta be in a very specific mood for Bill Callahan, but when I am in that mood, he really does it for me.