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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.38	+1.62
The Dreaming Kate Bush	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.61	-2.61
Celebrity Skin Hole	1	3.29	-2.29
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega	1	3.01	-2.01
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.62	-1.62
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	2	3.29	-1.29
All The Young Dudes Mott The Hoople	2	3.29	-1.29
Something Else By The Kinks The Kinks	2	3.25	-1.25
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.22	-1.22

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S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Reminded me of The Beatles at times, pretty easy to listen to, though nothing that exciting or special. Some of the audio mixing at the beginning was distractingly bad, but it got better over time.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

His voice is fine but, it honestly just sounds like the same song to me played over and over with different lyrics.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Still very good album, haven't heard it in years.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

1/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

This is so lame but I actually kind of appreciate that.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

It's okay but most of the time I just sort of thought that I could be listening to The Beatles instead.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Pretty good! I think it slows down a bit during the second album (I prefer the first album/part), but it's still enjoyable enough all the way through.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

I don't have a lot to say about this one, but I thought it was really catchy and fun. (And a good, short album to follow up after yesterday's pick).

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Probably more like a 3.5ish, but I enjoyed it overall. Songs like "Killing Me Softly With His Song" definitely stand out, though I don't think there is anything I disliked. It does drag on for a bit long, though I think I'd listen to it again eventually (but now I will probably just listen to "Killing Me Softly" more!).

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

More like 2.5. It's fine to listen to but does get a bit boring after a while.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Suzanne Vega

1/5

Honestly was bored af the whole time. Lyrics are kind of cheesy like what I imagine reading a monologue in a check-out isle romance novel is like, but that would probably be more entertaining. The album had stopped playing at some point and I was like, cool, it's over, but turns out I had only listened to FOUR SONGS and Spotify had just died for some reason.

All The Young Dudes

Mott The Hoople

2/5

More of a 2.5 than a 2. Anyway, I appreciated that some of this reminded me of Bowie, which makes sense since he was a writer, producer, etc. of this album, but it also reminds me of some of his less interesting music. My favorite song was probably the album title track, though I realized I had already heard it from somewhere: it's a Bowie song (according to Wikipedia, it was "produced by Bowie, [and] he gave the song to the band after they rejected Bowie's "Suffragette City." That was a bad decision, wasn't it?)

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

I think this album grew on me over time. I tend to find a lot of neo-psychedelia/psychedelic rock disappointing, I guess because I expect something interesting and adventurous like Ween, but I end up with what is more easily described as slow and meandering indie rock. While I think a few songs on here fits that description, there are some pretty good tracks on here too ("Earthquake," "Memory Boy," "Desire Lines," and "Helicopter" stand out to me.)

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

More of a 2.5 than a 3. I don't think at any point I was particularly bored or wanting to not listen to this, but there were also almost no parts that stuck out to me. So it's a perfectly average, fine album to me.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

I've already heard this album a few times before. It's lovely.

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Thought this was average (more like a 2.5). A few of the songs were nice but he also mumbled so much it got on my nerves?

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Oops I'm really behind in this. Good album! I really like the sci-fi vibe and Monaé has a great voice.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Instrumentation was kind of nice, but mostly just kind of boring and never did anything that interesting. Vocals were really grating to me.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

I listened to this pretty recently so I thought I'd just rate it for now. :)

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

2/5

lol these people are so high.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

(3.5) I feel like I wouldn't like Liz Phair as much if I didn't enjoy seeing her so much in concert (she opened for The Smashing Pumpkins and I barely knew her music beyond "Why Cant I?"), but she does have a cool stage presence and is fun to watch live. A lot of her songs are pretty catchy too, and short and sweet; I never feel like her songs go on for too long. I saw her tagged as "slacker rock" on RYM and I think that's probably a good way to describe her music?

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

Probably not the #2 best album of all time (according to RYM, anyway) but it's still pretty good. I've kind of avoided listening to much Pink Floyd because they kind of seem overrated, and well, I think they still might be but, it's still good music.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

(already heard this a bunch, including recently, so I will just rate it!)

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

(already heard this a bunch before, will just rate it, 4.5)

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Finally felt like getting back into listening to these albums but decided I'd go through the ones I've heard before and wanted to re-listen to. This one is still good!

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

3/5

Heard this kind of recently for the first time, pretty fun overall (3.5).