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Album	You	Global	Diff
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan	2	3.61	-1.61
Illmatic Nas	2	3.6	-1.6
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.31	-1.31
Something Else By The Kinks The Kinks	2	3.25	-1.25
The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets	2	3.25	-1.25

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Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks · 1 likes

2/5

Imitation Beatles tunes… too heavy on the high end in mixing… fatiguing.

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

The high notes are great but I can’t quite get to 5 stars because there are some very skippable songs here. Wishing for half stars. Side one was pure fried gold. Side two started dragging.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

2/5

Really not my taste. No traditional instruments, versatile musicians. Just couldn’t make it thru…

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Luscious production, impeccable musicianship, tasty… but it’s kinda much ado about nothing, as there’s no real message or emotion driving it. It becomes self indulgent to sing about how your date forgot she’d already seen a movie. Now, every drummer on the planet should listen to it as it’s a masterclass in drumming…

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Sax tones front and husky. Chordal rhythmic strums. Almost invisible backbeat. Lyrics I’ll never understand. Possibly the whitest album ever recorded. Sparse and somehow magical. Rainy Sunday morning coffee music. It’s not going into rotation but I’m glad I spent time with it.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

It aught not to be possible for an album to be better than most of the songs on that album but somehow this does it. Drums and bass alone make it good. Not a big fan of Pete or Roger… not great songwriting with a few exceptions. There’s something brassy and in your face about this album… no dynamics, no subtlety that I both admire and get annoyed by.

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

While still a great album I’d put this about my fourth favorite album by The Cure. Everything is good but nothing is amazing, song wise. The bass player is amazing, always nice chunky tones and right in the pocket.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Is it bad that I couldn’t do a whole album of his in one setting? I find his voice too annoying to hear his lyrics which are supposed to be his best stuff. I finished it. A grand total of one song that I’d like to hear again. (Lipstick Vogue) I just can’t seem to get into Costello despite a lifetime of trying…. Sorry fans.

I See You

The xx

3/5

Decent overproduced crap. Enjoyed it once. Won’t return

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

Decent overproduced crap. Enjoyed it once. Won’t return

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Boring

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Imitation Beatles tunes… too heavy on the high end in mixing… fatiguing.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Side one may be a contender for the strongest album side in ever. Just a monster of riffs, songs, lyrical statement, galactic interludes and raw power. Not to knock side two at all but it’s just not as iconic. Absolutely, a monolithic album.

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Fiona Apple

4/5

Surprisingly sophisticated. I’d dismissed her as pop and I was wrong.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Magnificent. Went to new places and nobody has been there since. Fantastic rhythms with beautiful layers of melody woven through. Just about perfect.

Third

Portishead

3/5

Third favorite of the three … decent… really good even… but missing that track that never leaves your brain.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Decent jazz…

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

If this had been the first Cure album I heard instead of Kiss Me, I’d have written them off instead of becoming a fan. Low energy and no bite.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

Meh. Overproduced. Throwback to older overproduced times. Some decent hooks.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Not the best Beatles album but it’s still a best ever album. Some filler but enough Tomorrow Never Knows and Eleanor Rigby carry it back to five stars.