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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.3	+1.7
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	5	3.56	+1.44
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.58	+1.42
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33
The Cars The Cars	5	3.67	+1.33
Gold Ryan Adams	4	2.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Make Yourself Incubus	1	3.07	-2.07

5-Star Albums (11)

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Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Sure. Why not?

4 likes

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

How is it possible that I did not have this album. Truly a crime. Great -- super mellow and groovy. Sunday morning wake up music.

1 likes

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Not my favorite flavor of Nick Drake, but useful from a completist perspective.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (1)

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Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Good start. Of course, heard this one many times. Bitchin' album start to finish.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Listened many times. Genre defining.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

What, are you kidding?

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Just heard this for the first time recently. Great songwriting and arrangement. No questions as to why this is on the list.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Fun, quirky stuff.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Adorable. Way more interesting than one would expect, despite no songs I was familiar with going in.

Femi Kuti

4/5

Splendid stuff. Don't usually go for Afrobeat, but really enjoyable.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Dreamy, haunting.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Sets the stage for everything else.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Did not know this one. Definitely a window into a era.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

4/5

My first exposure to Brazilian Pop. A+.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

How is it possible that I did not have this album. Truly a crime. Great -- super mellow and groovy. Sunday morning wake up music.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Simply the best.

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Nice, but didn't really grab me in any special way.

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Fine, but did not really grab my attention.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Heard it. Brilliant.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Fun stuff. Takes me back. Not something I'll listen to regularly, probably.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Pretty enjoyable intro into Indian music.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

I have heard this one.

Suicide

3/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

A ton of fun. The hits were great, but a number of other tunes I'd never heard that frankly never got their due.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Great, never before heard electronica.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Great album that I had not heard in a while.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Not my favorite flavor of Nick Drake, but useful from a completist perspective.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Fun. Not sure it's a must listen. Humpty Dance is enjoyable for sure.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Another glaring omission. Not what I expected at all.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Heard it. Great.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Solid indie-rock album. But never heard it.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Not for everybody, but enjoyable.

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

First Ryan Adams album for me. Pretty groovy/rocky for what I'd been led to believe was a folk influenced artist.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Heard it, but always worth a listen.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Poppy 70s goodness.

Moby Grape

3/5

Weird late 60s psychadelia.

The Cars

5/5

A good 'un.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Great. Hadn't heard this in many years.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Sure. Why not?

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

3/5

Ok. Didn't really grab me, but fine for a background listen.

Make Yourself

Incubus

1/5

No thank you.