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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Microshift Hookworms	5	3.02	+1.98
C'est Chic CHIC	5	3.34	+1.66
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.49	+1.51
90 808 State	4	2.69	+1.31
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	4	2.89	+1.11
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.44	-2.44
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	1	3.35	-2.35
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	1	3.15	-2.15
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	1	2.58	-1.58
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	2	3.38	-1.38
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.37	-1.37
The College Dropout Kanye West	2	3.31	-1.31
Revolver Beatles	3	4.23	-1.23
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.03	-1.03

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols

Rollicking, deafeningly monotonous.

2 likes

90 by 808 State

Quirky, catchy, and solid beats, especially for the time.

1 likes

Idlewild by Everything But The Girl

Contrived, sleepy, and purposeless.

1 likes

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

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Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Sad, dramatic, pretty

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols

Rollicking, deafeningly monotonous.

The College Dropout by Kanye West

Rapping and production are decent. I still find Kanye unabearable.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd

Rollicking, British, and fun. Highly enjoyed it.

Shaft by Isaac Hayes

Funky and fun.

Songs Of Love And Hate by Leonard Cohen

Fun but quiet and underwhelming.

Kid A by Radiohead

Unobtrusive, quiet, and interesting.

Remain In Light by Talking Heads

Weird, folksy, and fun.

90 by 808 State

Quirky, catchy, and solid beats, especially for the time.

Vento De Maio by Elis Regina

Beautiful, timeless, and moody.

Idlewild by Everything But The Girl

Contrived, sleepy, and purposeless.

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa

First two tracks were unbearable, so I turned it off.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise

Laid back, technically complex, chill.

Microshift by Hookworms

Beautiful, complex, and fun

Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos

Vocals are big in the mix, second half of the album was much more artistically captivating. Found it hard to listen to at times but in general a positive experience.

Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter

Quiet, unassuming, pretty

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized

Did not enjoy the first two tracks, so I stopped listening

Urban Hymns by The Verve

Soft, melodic, somewhat uninspired.

Parachutes by Coldplay

Nostalgic and artsy. Very enjoyable.

The Stranger by Billy Joel

Spunky, fun, and heartfelt.

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka

Soulful, catchy, and moving.

Dire Straits by Dire Straits

Fine

Live And Dangerous by Thin Lizzy

Iconic, fun, a little boring.

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes

Cheeky, pedantic, folksier than I expected.

American Beauty by Grateful Dead

Folksy, meditative, surprising

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

It was fine.

Foo Fighters by Foo Fighters

Classic, grungy, quality.

Hotel California by Eagles

Fun, classic, a little uniform.

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel

Beautiful

Bongo Rock by Incredible Bongo Band

Super enjoyable and fun.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips

Fun, but less enjoyable than I expected.

Live At The Regal by B.B. King

Classic and fun, a little bit misogynist.

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian

Different than I expected, quality.

Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Interesting elements, especially the instrumentation. I could take or leave the lyrics and vocals.

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone

Funky, psychedelic, not really my style but fun

Doolittle by Pixies

Great album

Purple Rain by Prince

Enjoyable and fun, classic, wish I'd listened sooner.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Under Construction by Missy Elliott

Fantastic

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis

Lovely

461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton

Enjoyable and smooth

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

It was fine

The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets

Catchy but unsatisfying

Ocean Rain by Echo And The Bunnymen

Phrenology by The Roots

Pearl by Janis Joplin

Not my fave

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones

It was fine

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo by MC Solaar

Excellent and chill

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube

It was fine

Surfer Rosa by Pixies

Super enjoyable, grungy and fresh.

C'est Chic by CHIC

Beautiful album.

Snivilisation by Orbital

Neat if a little inaccessible

You've Come a Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos

Not interesting

British Steel by Judas Priest

Mask by Bauhaus

Fine

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Close To You by Carpenters

Beautiful if a little contrived

Gorillaz by Gorillaz

Deeply satisfying

The Visitors by ABBA

Excellent mostly

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy

Super good and relevant

Revolver by Beatles

Pretty good, last track is lit.

Surf's Up by The Beach Boys

Way better and more poetic than I expected

Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan

Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear

Classic

Trio by Dolly Parton

Good but not my style.

The Wildest! by Louis Prima

Fun!

There's No Place Like America Today by Curtis Mayfield

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen

As good as I remembered

Synchronicity by The Police

Fun and interesting

The Renaissance by Q-Tip

Not my style but well produced