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1978
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2000
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1981
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"One of the best albums of 2021. Not as good as Velocity: Design: Comfort or You Will Never Know Why but this album is a blast of sound from start to finish. So glad this came out this year."  Reply
- catholicgoth1990 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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2021
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"Very cool album from this band. Was not expecting a lot, but a lot was what I got. Recommended! Favorite tracks: Little Girls, Perfect System, On the Outside, Only a Lad, What You See, Imposter Least favorite track: Capitalism Overall rating: 90/100"  Reply
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1981
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"Some of the strongest songs he ever wrote are on here, but also some of his most bland songs are on here, which makes it his weakest album so far. The upbeat funk songs make the album, the slow songs drag it down. He writes great slow songs too, but most of them on this album drag the album as a ..."  [+]  Reply
- danmarzella | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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2016
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1980
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2003
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