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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.65	+1.35
Transformer Lou Reed	5	3.67	+1.33
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Guitar Town Steve Earle	4	2.81	+1.19
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	4	2.86	+1.14
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	5	3.92	+1.08
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Garbage Garbage	1	3.38	-2.38
Closer Joy Division	1	3.22	-2.22
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	1	3.11	-2.11
Leftism Leftfield	1	2.9	-1.9
Headquarters The Monkees	1	2.86	-1.86
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	1	2.6	-1.6
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.57	-1.57
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	2	3.4	-1.4
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	2	3.31	-1.31

5-Star Albums (7)

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At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters · 1 likes

4/5

Classic blues. Fun voice and sound effects.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple · 1 likes

2/5

Smoke on the water is classic. Rest of it was decent rock music.

1-Star Albums (7)

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Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Ramble on is best song. WLL is overrated. Not my favorite Zep album but solid for sure.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Good stuff. Beats are solid

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Not for me. Got through 2 songs and bailed

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

2/5

Sister midnight was good. Same with China girl. Good guitar. Fine overall

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

A little odd but I liked it. Rock and roll but kind of halloweeny

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

2/5

Relaxing. Won’t listen to it again but it was calming. 2/2 is cool

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Good voice. Cool guitar in a few songs. Solidify was not very good. Didn’t mind the rest.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Far too long. 2.5 hours. Music is good though. Rock and roll from 80s.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Jazz. Not bad. Nice restaurant vibes.

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

Really long songs. Kind of edm. Didn’t like it.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Kind of strange rock and roll. A little talky and not very singy. Not a huge fan.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Great album. Long (over 2 hours). Love both their voices.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Really good. Never been much in to Nirvana but I like the stripped down versions.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Didn’t think I would like it. Turns out it’s pretty awesome. Bits of hip hop mixed with rock and roll.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Cool guitar as expected. Drums and rythym were nice too. I enjoyed.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Great album. Best from them for sure

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Really liked this. All the way through. 5 stars.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

Good rock album. Cool concept. Not a huge fan of the guys voice though. Long album.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Some good blues. I like her voice. Ends with 14 min song.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

Liked some of each song. Editions and grey lagoons are best.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Good British folk music. Reminds me of Ireland

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Instrumental for the most part. Jazzy and fun. Like it.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Excellent. Big Dylan fan.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Very short (7 songs 33 mins). But it’s awesome.

Closer

Joy Division

1/5

Pretty weird. Not a fan.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Very 80s as expected. Kind of cheese but not super awful.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Some nice loud punk rock

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Had heard lovefool before. Rest of it was fine. 2 or 3 stars.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Reminds me of sgt peppers for some reason but not quite as good. Overall though it was ok.

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Pretty good rock and roll album

Headquarters

The Monkees

1/5

Meh.

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Good playing, but not something I would listen to again.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1/5

Not a fan.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

1/5

Only listened to a few, but not something I liked.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Really liked this. Cool voice and playing was good. Not a song I would skip.

Garbage

1/5

Only checked out 2 songs but it was meh

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Rock and roll. A little strange but not the worst.

Paul Simon

4/5

Pretty good. Me and Julio is great. Paranoia blues is great.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Obviously 5 stars, it’s Aretha.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

Pretty good country. I like the voice.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Loud rock. Fine but not anything I would listen to.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Kind of liked this actually. Not usually a huge Bruce fan

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Music was cool, but didn’t like the vocals.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

Good country music. I enjoyed it. First half was a bit better.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Classic blues. Fun voice and sound effects.

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Good voice but didn’t love the music or lyrics as much

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Expected screamo music. Not the case. Some of it was actually pretty good. Movin on up was good. Fairly up and down in terms of what I liked.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

What I expected from beck for the most part. This album was a little more acoustic.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Good rock and roll. I like this band.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Really like this album. Should listen to oasis more.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Jeff tweedy sounding voice. Cool sometimes but a little odd

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Kind of cool. Heads will roll I already knew just didn’t know it was by them.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Kind of odd. Really long songs.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A classic. Amazing guitar

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Solid southern rock. Surprised I haven’t dove into them before.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

Great blues. Cool features. Like Santana and Bonnie raitt

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Punk rock. Skipped around but didn’t hate it. Never heard of it before.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

This was really good.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

This is already getting 5 stars before I even listen. Otis Redding is one of my favorites.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

Smoke on the water is classic. Rest of it was decent rock music.

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Too hard for me. Didn’t really like it.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Interesting. Wouldn’t listen again but had some cool parts.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Favorite band ever. Don’t listen to this era of their music as much but it holds up

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Didn’t expect to love it, but expected to like it. Beat my expectations for sure.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

5 songs but it’s jazz so they’re long. Relaxing. Not overly jazzy

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

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Shuggie Otis

3/5

I actually really liked this. Good voice and cool instrumentation. Pretty funky.

Foo Fighters

4/5

As far as hard punk rock goes, I like this. Big DG fan

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Decent rock and roll.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5