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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton	5	3.42	+1.58
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.95	+1.05
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	4	2.97	+1.03
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	1	3.4	-2.4
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention	1	3.14	-2.14
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	1	3.07	-2.07
Exile In Guyville Liz Phair	1	3.02	-2.02
Black Monk Time The Monks	1	2.94	-1.94
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	1	2.37	-1.37
The Next Day David Bowie	2	3.3	-1.3
All Mod Cons The Jam	2	3.25	-1.25
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	2	3.25	-1.25
Technique New Order	2	3.17	-1.17

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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg · 1 likes

4/5

Great songwriting and I love the minimal guitar tones; usually clean with a tad bit of chorus. Regional melody influences give a real sense of "folk". May have to add this to the rotation.

1-Star Albums (6)

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Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Cool synth sounds and an iconic voice. I didn't realize this record didn't release in the 80s. Definitely, some tracks that are part of my musical consciousness, but I doubt I would get super into the rest of the catalog.

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Great songs. I never appreciated how complete of an album this is. Added to my list of vinyl to look for.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Great songwriting and I love the minimal guitar tones; usually clean with a tad bit of chorus. Regional melody influences give a real sense of "folk". May have to add this to the rotation.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

1/5

Nope. Not for me. I can see how this is influential on lots of artists and genres, but I personally need a little more structure and prefer lyrics.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Nas is a legend.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

2/5

meh

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

First track is groove right off the bat. Whole album is just a vibe. I will be coming back to this one.

Technique

New Order

2/5

Not my jam, but again I can see how it influence tons of artist that I love. So much chorus on guitar lines. I like the doubled vocals.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

1/5

I don't like this album much at all.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

I mean, come on. It's a vibe. I read on Wikipedia that some of the album contained tracks that were never played in the studio, but were spliced together from tapes and loops. God bless the person who did all of that splicing in 1970.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Yeah. Not bad. Some cool tunes. Not likely to come back to this one.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

1/5

No thank you.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

Definitely some cool vibes. I would listen to again while working, but won't crank it in the car with the windows down.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

1/5

No thank you.

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

GET THE LED OUT!

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Generally vibey and I had no idea this record is from the early 80's. I always assumed they were a mid 90's band.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

LEGEND STATUS This album has it all - riffs, thoughtful lyrics, grooves, and a unique flavor.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

This surprise me. The production on this album is incredible. Silky smooth, but dancey at the same time. Total vibes.

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Prince is a legend, and this album is legendary. A personal fav.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Dolly is always great. Such a special voice and songwriter. I was surprised by the bass work on these tracks. Just solid gold.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

1/5

My personal rating just a reflection of my enjoyment of this style of music. The sampling and production is definitely amazing, especially considering the type of technology available when this record was made.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Vibes and iconic voice.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Great record with an eclectic mix of songs and sounds. I had no idea this was the same band behind \"I'm Not in Love\" and \"The Things We Do for Love\"

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

5 stars. No notes.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Bowie has a such an iconic voice and when he's leaning into more pop/dance structures I really love it. But there's a lot that I just don't enjoy listening too when it comes to most of the songs and lyrical delivery.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

It's fine, but I probably won't listen to it much.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

5 stars. No notes. In my opinion, this is not a hip-hop album. To Pimp a Butterfly is a jazz album.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Not bad, but not super memorable. It's a vibe that only Jack White has. I'll probably put it in the rotation, but only as background.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5