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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch	5	3	+2
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	5	3.11	+1.89
Solid Air John Martyn	5	3.16	+1.84
Mama's Gun Erykah Badu	5	3.25	+1.75
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.26	+1.74
Cross Justice	5	3.28	+1.72
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Home Is Where The Music Is Hugh Masekela	5	3.36	+1.64
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Another Music In A Different Kitchen Buzzcocks	1	3.09	-2.09
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.73	-1.73
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	2	3.33	-1.33
Actually Pet Shop Boys	2	3.18	-1.18
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	2	3.17	-1.17

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Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

5/5. Funky and Jazzy, rambles from awesome big band blues to more mellow, wandering piano solos. A new favorite. Big horns, jammy piano and lots of hi hats. Feels like Art Blakey with slightly more blues/rock influence.

8 likes

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

A new favorite. Atmospheric, serious but makes you want to be in the crowd to jam along. Folksy and Jazzy with experimental effects and smoky vocals

4 likes

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

2/5. I get it, it's capital G great and is the provenance of most rock ballads. But it just sounds like all other rock ballads after it which makes for an uninteresting listen.

1 likes

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London Calling

The Clash

4/5

3.5/5. Funky and jazzy, electric guitar, flows between ambient and crashing whiny vocals

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

2/5. I get it, it's capital G great and is the provenance of most rock ballads. But it just sounds like all other rock ballads after it which makes for an uninteresting listen.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

4/5 - soulful, rambling rock with a good drum and bass line.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

4.5/5. Brainy, energetic 90s hip hop rap over jazz tracks. Play 'Oh Shit,' 'Soul Flower,' or 'Passin Me By' to seem hip at dinner parties. Delightfully explicit. 'Ya Mama' is a must listen.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Fun, creative lyrics that will always make you feel 19 again. Great weekend or car trip listen.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

2.5/5. Uptempo punk rock with stringy electric guitar and epic vocals with lots of tension. You can imagine every band member with their eyes closed *feeling* all of their hooks + solos. I'd happily participate in this gothy moshpit if I find myself in 1981, but too stressful a listen otherwise.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

4/5. Jammy electric guitar riffs and solos, with upbeat drum kicks and deep-voiced vocals. The first 25 minutes is just one long, rambling and waning guitar riff. Great background music for introspective, manly things.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

3.5/5. Background dinner rock. Musical soft rock guitar and keyboard. Brit-rock whiny vocals. Not bad but not super interesting.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

2/5. Stadium 90s pop rock is not my jam.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

4/5. Jammy jazz-rock with lots of emotion and cacophonous solos from my different instruments. Great working music, but too wild for it to be universally liked.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

I have always had a soft spot for Cheap Trick, one of my first concerts. An awesome live album to make you feel right in the arm-waving crowd with great pop rock anthems. The 8 min Need Your Love take has great riffs and the live I Want You to Want me can't get any more sing-along-able.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

A little bluesy and mostly melancholy, there are some gems like Friday Night that are oldies playlist worthy.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

4/5. Energetic, experimental and rebellious, strummy electric guitair and a strong bass line make for a good classic rock listen on the less expirimental tracks. Some are too expirimental (Gutter cat vs the jets) but some are fun and bluesy (Blue Turk). Fun for active listening but not great jam out music.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

3.5. Rolling guitar and upbeat drums with haunting vocals.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Fun and boppy, with lyrics made for screaming 16 year old girls.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

4/5. Grungy rock with lyrical streaks, another favorite classic.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

4/5. Mellow with deep guitar and manly vibes, with some oldie rock bops. Listen while drinking scotch and playing a quiet game of pool.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

5/5

Fun and eclectic, lots of classic rock singalongs with interludes of weird narration or groovy instrumentals.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Dramatic pop rock with some classic instruments and a story to tell. A fun listen but not captivating

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

1/5

Greenday predecessor, make it 1970s and Brit Rock. Cacophonous and complainy. 1/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

I mean, epic for powerlifting, gang fights and satanic rituals but not great anywhere with mixed company.

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

A new favorite. Atmospheric, serious but makes you want to be in the crowd to jam along. Folksy and Jazzy with experimental effects and smoky vocals

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Pop with lightly rebellious experimental sounds and lyrics. I'm sure it was a bop back then.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

An undisputed classic. 5/5 quality, 4/5 for music i want in my rotation

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

The perfect mix of kick-the-dirt punk and fun rock ballads

Cross

Justice

5/5

Such a ground breaker - the rock influence makes the disco very approachable for non-EDM fans. Hard not to bop along and feel like it's time to dance.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Deluxe edition is 6 hours of straight angst and sadness =, with highlights of 90s bops

John Prine

3/5

Twangy and informal

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Interesting and funky, but too many expirimental/talk tracks to make the album a fun listen. 'Sleep on the Left Side,' 'Good Shit' and 'Good to be Back on the Road Home' worth pulling into playlist

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Garbled but above average pop-punk rock

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

5/5

I'm not the biggest R&B guy, but this record is crazy groovy and the vocals are epic and interesting in each track. 5/5

Shadowland