Personally, I tend to rate Wowee Zowee and Meat is Murder as my favourite albums by Pavement and The Smiths, even though most people would go for Slanted and Enchanted/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and The Smiths/The Queen is Dead, respectively. I don't know, they seem to have a character of their own and flow better when listening to them in their entirety in one sitting.
Most people also view Kate Bush's The Sensual World as something of a disappointment after The Dreaming and Hounds of Love. To me, it's a clearly more subdued, intimate, feminine (whatever that means) affair, but just as beautiful.
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