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Album	You	Global	Diff
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	5	2.3	+2.7
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.03	+1.97
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.08	+1.92
Wild Wood Paul Weller	5	3.09	+1.91
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
John Prine John Prine	5	3.22	+1.78
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	5	3.23	+1.77
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	5	3.25	+1.75
System Of A Down System Of A Down	5	3.27	+1.73

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46

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David Bowie	2	5

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Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones · 1 likes

5/5

Full of core Stones material it sounds like the expectation of a Stones record, even with tracks like Country Honk. The session players fill it out and take it up a notch. With Mick Taylor and Ry Cooder adding serious quality. The classic blues tracks keep the connection to the roots but they are more developed. Then stone classics. Gimme Shelter, Midnight Rambler, You Cam’t Always Get..

Live At The Regal

B.B. King · 1 likes

5/5

BB is amazing whenever you listen to him but this shows him at his most powerful. Stunning

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The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

One the truly great voices. Marvin Gaye is really at the height of his powers here

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Loved this since I was a teen. Every track is great. Really varied and interesting. Alison, Less Than Zero, Watching the Detectives all absolute classics. His lyrics and wordplay are top notch

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

5/5

Seminal rock record. So influential on guitarists and singers.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

The greatest female soul by a country mile

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Not listened to them before. Quite like it, though I am currently less in the mood for this style. Some vibes of Echo and the Bunnymen/Waterboys

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Obviously some iconic tracks like the title and Love is a Stranger

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

No one alive can avoid the need to dance when Chic plays

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Somehow don’t go to Dylan much but whenever I do it’s obvious how incredible he is

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Some unusual stuff among well known classics and standard beautiful s&g

Violent Femmes

5/5

So iconic. They make so much from so little. Full of energy and passion

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

Punk energy with more sophistication than their debut album. Lots of guitar solos which arent very punk! But great.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Was a very big album of its moment. Certainly full of beauty and warmth.

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

Chris Martin’s voice is just so awful. Everything I don’t want from a singer. The whole thing is just painful and bland and dire.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Interesting but ultimately not my thing

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

So so seminal. Raw Power indeed

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

What a gorgeous voice. Huge influence on so many singers to come. Great blend of folk with lots of other styles

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

His voice is so much more than the sum of it’s parts. Beautiful stuff from a complex, difficult guy.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

One of the absolute all time great funk albums. What an amazing band on the top of their game. Some stone cold kick ass bangers

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Would have been incredible to see these guys live back in 1965

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Old hands and voices that just know what is what. Soul, rhythm, life, love, joy. And Ry Cooder to boot

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Such a soulful voice and amazing arrangements

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

LC is such a powerful poet and has a huge emotional depth.

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

5/5

Challenging and endlessly stimulating. Certainly feel that there is plenty going on that is beyond my ken but also very intriguing. Lots of amazing musicianship

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

One of my all time favourite albums. Just immense. Brian Eno brings so many layers and textures. So funky but complex. David Byrne’s lyrics are fascinating and intense. His delivery as always is brilliant

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

Title track is of course iconic. One amazing Blue Thumb record. What a line up of stellar musicians

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

5/5

Weller doing another change of direction. Leaning even further into his soulful side

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Played this so so much at the time. Funky and energetic and passionate and exciting. Under the Bridge is so painfully beautiful

John Prine

5/5

Some people just have a presence. Something others don’t have. John Prine isn’t doing anything many others aren’t doing but he does it in such a unique way

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Beautiful close harmonies are one of the most pleasing things to hear

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Mustaine is certainly a one if a kind guy. Voice, style, guitar. This is near to peak Megadeth

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

5/5

That sound. Students and angsty teens everywhere loved it. Ian McCulloch’s voice, like Lloyd Cole and the Waterboys, was what all creative arty people were into. The jangly guitar sound. The sophisticated lyrics. We felt clever because of it. And it just sounded so great

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Classic big beat dance tracks. Wasn’t a thing I was huge into at the time but it can’t be denied that it’s great dance music

War

5/5

Back when U2 was still on the rise. Still cool. It’s all very earnest and heartfelt. That made it exciting and powerful to listen to as a teenager. The band are really tight and propulsive. The Edge hasn’t fully got into his effects heavy period yet. It’s still great guitar work and full on early 80s post punk flavour. Similarly the bass is strong and sounds to me like Eno worked on the sound

System Of A Down

5/5

Pure intense energy. The first outing for SOAD is just brilliant. What a band

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

Marc Bolan is one of those people you recognise immediately. So unique sounding. Got all the key tracks on this one but they’re all great. Mambo Sun opener sets the mood and it grooves from there

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Kraftwerk are such a key seminal group. Their work in the 70s laid so much groundwork for so much music. No just the synth pop of the 80s but hip-hop, dance music and all music that now just had the understanding that electronic devices can make art. This album is much more pop oriented and allowed the accessibilty to synth pop. But earlier records are much more powerful now

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Love this band. So many amazing grooves.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

BB is amazing whenever you listen to him but this shows him at his most powerful. Stunning

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

5/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

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My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Although it may now seem hackneyed, then the use of South African music was so fresh and exciting. Paul Simon’s music dovetailed so well with it and his voice also. So many beautiful and fun songs

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Funky. Jazzy. Great musicianship. Love Watermelon Man

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Second EC album that’s come through. Another great one with big hits and generally excellent eclectic stuff all through with all his usual lyrical fun

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Totally classic 90s r’n’b with some absolute stone cold hits. All the big name producers in evidence and the sound just takes you right there.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Great singles that I remember fondly. The Power of Love in particular is beautiful.

Dire Straits

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

How could this be less than 5 stars. Up there with the best he did. I came late-ish to Bowie and later still to the Berlin period but it’s so high end. Probably good I wasn’t trying to get a teenage brain around it. Got into this and Eno generally at the same time. So otherworldly and timeless yet still connects

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

One of my all time fav male soul voices along with Sam Cooke and Al Green. He sings sime Sam Cooke here along with other covers which he owns totally and brings so much of himself to. No one will ever sound like Otis. And with the Stax band behind him, it’s all stellar

1999

Prince

5/5

Hard to give anything less than 5 stars to any album of this period by Prince. Be was just about to peak with this going into Purple Rain which continued for many albums. Still feels early 80s in its sound

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

There’s almost nothing that doesn’t get 5 stars for Bowie until well into the 80s. This is certainly an easy 5. Even though there’s probably only one massive track, it’s all immensely good

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

This album was so huge to me when it came out. I couldn’t get enough of it. Still so amazing and exciting. And led me onto the whole Native Tongues gang. It’s an incredible debut. So inventive and different

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

It’s so hard to understand how important Sinatra was now. It can easily sound dated and cheesy. And so much of it is received as part of the cultural landscape

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

My favourite Beatles album, particularly for the medley on side two. It has actually grown more on me as years go by. The proto metal of I want You is huge. The mad variety of content is great, musically, lyrically, subject matter. It’s ridiculously clear how massively influential they were and still are

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

5 big singles. We were all in love with Debbie Harry at the time, with her sneering beauty