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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.31	+1.69
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	5	3.32	+1.68
Tommy The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
2112 Rush	5	3.38	+1.62
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.42	+1.58
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	5	3.44	+1.56
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.5	+1.5
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	5	3.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
All That You Can't Leave Behind U2	1	2.98	-1.98
A Northern Soul The Verve	1	2.91	-1.91
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.76	-1.76
Boston Boston	2	3.71	-1.71
Sex Packets Digital Underground	1	2.67	-1.67
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	2	3.07	-1.07

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

5-Star Albums (21)

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All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2 · 1 likes

1/5

I loathe U2, but I'll give this a try. For a little bit, at least.

Tical

Method Man · 1 likes

4/5

another album i listened to a ton as a kid, but have since written it off as a guilty pleasure. looking forward to this listen. 1/2 way - just as good as i remember it. method has incredible flow compared to most of today's rappers IMO.

1-Star Albums (5)

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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

That's a no from me, Dog.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Moss Garden - i think it brought my heart rate down 20 bpm The Secret Life of Arabia - sick bassline

2112

Rush

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

listened for a while, but somehow i'm only on track #2? shuffle is off, repeat is off. also not sure if the interviews are part of the album or part of a special edition, but i can't pay close enough attention to get anything out of them. album in general isn't jiving with my mood today.

Elastica

4/5

Owned this one way back in the day. This should be an interesting re-listen. Expecting a healthy dose of nostalgia. Hearing a lot of similarities with the band Self, who I would listen to a lot 4-5 years after this album came out. I remember this being sort of a "guilty pleasure" back in the 90's... probably because it's a "girl band." Listening now makes me want to smack myself - this holds up well. I'd love to hear more of this kind of release today with male OR female leads - short, catchy punk songs that are still palatable rather than just noisy. Hearing major Pixies inspiration behind "Waking Up" - probably lots of Pixies influence throughout the album, but it just now hit me. Fuck, this is really good. How many other albums did I casually listen to in the 90's and then forget about (or write off) that are legit classics these days?

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Possibly one of my most listened to albums ever. Feels like I know every note on the album, yet there's still a lot of nostalgia when listening today. Brings me back to riding my bike everywhere in the summer between 8th grade & freshman year. This album and Green Day "Dookie" were the ones in my ear when biking to football practice & then to Muirfield to caddy. These are the kinds of albums that I listened to non-stop as a kid, but for some reason fell into the "guilty pleasures" category after that. Probably because I discovered so much music and went through so many listening phases that I felt like anything I listened to in middle school/high school is sub-par just because I liked it before my music taste "matured".

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

Tom Waits just ain't my cup of tea.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Classics everyone has heard a million times (not sure I've ever listened to a CCR album besides the Greatest Hits) with some deep tracks that are every bit as good as the hits. Great listen for this morning. 40th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks - "Broken Spoke Shuffle" and "Glory Be" are fantastic instrumental tracks!

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

I've always enjoyed this one, but I need to sit down and give it the attention it deserves. Not an album to be listened to in the background while doing other things.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Never realized this was KW's highest regarded album (allmusic.com agrees). I would have thought MBDTF would hold that honor. First listen to this one. Good album. More straightforward, less "artsy" than MBDTF.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

1/5

I loathe U2, but I'll give this a try. For a little bit, at least.

The xx

3/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Tical

Method Man

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

5/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

If this was my introduction to punk, I would have listened to way more of it as a kid. Very good album, needs another few spins to catch what I missed the first time.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Boston

2/5

There's a strange mix of nostalgia and familiarity with this album. Most of that comes from the fact that even after almost 50 years, it's difficult to live a normal life and *not* hear More Than a Feeling at least once a year, probably at the dentist's office or the pharmacy... Favorite: Peace of Mind Underrated: Foreplay / Long Time Would be glad to never hear it again: More Than a Feeling

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

1/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Obviously 5/5. No notes.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Yeesh. I couldn't understand the appeal when I was 16. This album generator has forced me to revisit a lot of other artists I didn't think I liked back then, only to realize that my taste has evolved, so I was hopeful that would be the case here as well. Unfortunately, it's not. 56 minutes of pure agony. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.