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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	4	2.12	+1.88
Me Against The World 2Pac	5	3.25	+1.75
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.35	+1.65
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.38	+1.62
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.42	+1.58
Odelay Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.47	+1.53
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	5	3.48	+1.52
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.52	+1.48

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.69	-2.69
Machine Head Deep Purple	1	3.58	-2.58
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	1	2.64	-1.64
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	2	3.4	-1.4
Garbage Garbage	2	3.39	-1.39
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
Central Reservation Beth Orton	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (13)

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Heroes

David Bowie · 1 likes

3/5

Didn’t love it on the first listen. The Brian Eno of it all shone through on second listen, particularly in the second half, but still didn’t resonate as a full, coherent record. One to revisit.

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Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Pretty great. Dying was a good career move.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Not as good as Wish. Songs of a Lost World from ‘24 absolutely slapped.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Lots of room to breathe in the tracks. Some challenging time signatures early on but mostly a fairly great, straightforward jazz record. Feels like a good gateway album for the genre. Will revisit.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Utterly brilliant. Witty, often surreal lyrics that feel like they’re occasionally going to break out of folk’n’roll into full-blown hip-hop. Does the history of the album and the ‘Judas’ moment make it more compelling? Probably, but ultimately it’s just glorious songwriting.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Didn’t love it on the first listen. The Brian Eno of it all shone through on second listen, particularly in the second half, but still didn’t resonate as a full, coherent record. One to revisit.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Solid storytelling pop. Only the Good Die Young earned it the fourth star.

High Violet

The National

4/5

Beautiful arrangements and instrumentation. Last 3 songs make for a stunning close. Requires quite specific surroundings to really appreciate it.

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Not as grungy as I remember and more guitar shred. Kitchen mosh-worthy.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

It’s difficult to get over how annoying the personalities are, which is interesting, and what actually is a Wonderwall? But, the guitar shreds and many of the best tracks were not the singles/classics, which may just be over saturation rearing its head.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Pretty boring. Might revisit as only gave it one listen through, but didn’t really grab me.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Was very ready for a bit of psych but this didn’t hit as much as the first few tracks suggested it would. Picks up again after a baggy middle.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Very listenable, but it says a lot that I didn’t notice when it started playing other bands when the album finished. Background indie.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Utter bliss.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

Superb vocals, lyrics and vibe, just a little samey at times.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Not a Stevie I knew but perfect kitchen boogy music.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Glorious. Never listened to a Janis album in full and it was superb. Her voice is incredible. A fun, witty album to throw on any time of day.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Some absolute classics, but the ballads are so boring that it throws the rhythm of the whole thing.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Yes, yes, yes. ‘One’ still hits like a landmine and the whole album is like jet fuel for the day.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Delightful. Folk revival flavours, witty and strange, good psych tracks. Will listen again.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

The singles are good, particularly Scar Tissue and Otherside, but the rest is so annoying. It sounds like a band trying to sound like they’re jamming. I confess this may be PTSD from seeing them at Earl’s Court 15 years ago which was just such an awful, self-indulgent gig.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Stonking good thrash again. The remaster album is too clean, though. But the bass comes out better than on Justice, which may also be about being pre- and post-Cliff Barton.

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Enjoyable but faded to background music pretty quickly. Would throw on again and give more time to.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Dull but listenable. Folky / country KOL all the way.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

I haven’t listened to this properly for a long time and it was great to revisit. Fun psych pop that was as good to sit and listen to as boogy in the kitchen or put on when driving. It’s a bit overstuffed at times, and the style has been refined since, but I loved it.

Foo Fighters

5/5

A very welcome surprise to see this album on here. Loved it, despite the traumatic memories of being given this for Christmas when I asked for Colour and the Shape. The healing is complete.

Garbage

2/5

Managed to listen to the whole thing without registering it. Really wanted to talk about the rain in one song. That’s all I recall.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

A joy to listen to as an album and to get such a classic song in context.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Radiohead are a bizarre blind spot for me and finally having a reason to sit with a full album was well worth it.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

The first 3 songs nearly made this a hard pass but then it picked up. Still can’t forgive that chipmunk voice song, though.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Dullness of the century.

Iron Maiden

3/5

I’m a Bruce purist when it comes to Iron Maiden, but this has some good tracks on. Hope we get more.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

4/5

Loved this. Reminded me of a lot of Mike Patton stuff.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

I used to listen to the 2003 Greatest Hits a lot but never tried out their albums. This was great, a kind of pop grunge indie. I Remember California sounded like a Tool song at times, so extra marks there.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Very listenable if unremarkable blues.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Beautiful and haunting. One of my favourite albums of all time. Timeless.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Loved this more and more on each listen. Another blind spot for me but great and weird and addictive. Also Geese’s music now makes more sense listening to this.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Stonkingly good. Like Metallica but less cheesy and with bigger boots.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Love love love. Fun, vibrant. Will happily let this soundtrack bits of the day.

Fred Neil

2/5

High expectations but this didn’t hit. It’s a shame, his voice is amazing. But not the one.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

The funk is strong. Still annoying. I blame Anthony Kiedis.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Went in super excited. Good, but man those songs drag on. Kashmir still hits.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Gorgeous.

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

A purely historical exercise. Nice to put some songs in context, and the ska bits are fun, but won’t be chucking this on again.

Me Against The World

2Pac

5/5

Stunning. Having only recently gotten into hip hop this is a big puzzle piece to fit in and it’s just brilliant. Addictive.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

Crikey that was dull.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Some of this slapped. Some of it was the same song and lost me along the way. Fun though.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Still prefer Pink Moon and Bryter Lyter, but gods I love Nick Drake.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

1/5

Nope. I’ve encountered quite a few references to The Fall lately so interest piqued but this was rubbish.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

Joyous rock and roll. Lemmy sounds brilliant and the guitar line in The Hammer kills it. Glad this exists. A rogue one for kitchen dancing but maybe it’ll get thrown on in the future.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Another blind spot with a band so many others I like reference all the time. Reminded me of everything through Pixies to Refused and could hear a bit of the elements bands like Sunny Day Real Estate clearly vibed off.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

1/5

I put my review of this in The Residents one so here is the Residents one: I don’t feel well after that.

Common

4/5

Will happily throw this on again. A few tracks felt like they were missing proper hooks, but great most of the way through.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

Not a band I’ve given much time or thought to but some good grooves and cool vocal performances. Space Truckin’ is a jam.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Mark Kermode is a massive Creedence Clearwater Revival fan, so now I get the references. This was fun, and didn’t get the bad kind of weird like that Clapton one. Made a good tidal radio playlist too.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Really drives home the Stones’ bluesyness, but kind of dull.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

All the right Costello ingredients, just didn’t quite hit on first listen but will revisit. Spanish version muchos intriguing.

One World

John Martyn

4/5

Pretty cool. You can hear a lot of subsequent musicians in this, from Newton Faulkner to Ahnohni in the vocal style.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Love love love. Currently favourite album so far I reckon. Sheer joy.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

I have no real point of comparison, but actually really enjoyed this. Beautiful vocals and super fun. Plus the “songs like this” included The Bloop Bleep song which is a jam.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

I love this album. It’s strange and theatrical and hypnotic.

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Just a bit dull. The comedy skits felt very dated. I guess I never knew who sang Ready or Not, though, so that was nice.