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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Lazer Guided Melodies Spiritualized	5	2.92	+2.08
The Who Sell Out The Who	5	3	+2
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans	5	3.29	+1.71
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.31	+1.69
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.53	+1.47
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	5	3.63	+1.37
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.69	+1.31
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	4	2.86	+1.14
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	4	2.87	+1.13
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Atomizer Big Black	1	2.72	-1.72
Pink Flag Wire	2	3.21	-1.21

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Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

So many British men in this list. “Blue eyed Soul” This album was fine, if a bit generic sounding. Themes of world peace, leaving the city to go live in the country. Just mostly getting tired of all men here.

2 likes

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

This album is almost ten years old which is WILD! I listened to it a ton driving around LA when I was there for work. I remember how revelatory it was at the time that Frank Ocean was bisexual—it was a first and was considered pretty dramatic. And here we are 10 years later and it doesn’t feel like a big deal at all. And this album? Such a boo from top to bottom. I hope Ocean makes more. Sometimes we have to wait for good things.

1 likes

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

So fun—even though I was a teen when this came out, I didn’t remember all these tracks on one album. The Chili Peppers have fun and you can tell.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Fun—lots of funky and dark imagery here, which is not what I had associated with The Police. Murder by Numbers, King of Pain—definitely dark undertone that reinforce my notion that Every Breath You Take is about a stalker. Fun also to see Sting on “Only Murders in the Building” and wondering if there are any jokes related to this album

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

So many iconic James Brown-isms in this! It was cool to hear the crowd screaming (the girls!) because he was a sex symbol. So many of the iconic James Brown songs were still to come—this was 1962–but his demeanor and voice is all there. The band and the horns! I could practically see him twirling onstage when I was listening to it.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Didn’t know this was part of Parliament Funkadelic! Had heard “Can You Get To That” before. Loved the lyric “I had life or rather life had me”. Feels fitting as today is my last day at the Paley Center.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Couldn’t find all of this anywhere, but listened to the one track I could find while painting and it grooved

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

This 3 chord British punk is just not my jam. I guess it has a historical place, but I just don’t really love it

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Pretty fun! I’m a southern girl at heart and liked this. Beyond freebies and Tuesday’s gone it was a blast.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

5/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

I like Donovan and his proto Renaissance faerie aesthetic—some of these were a bit long, and I’m used to listening to his greatest hits where the whitest is separated from the chaff

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

The last track! 😍 I want it to go on forever, but it doesn’t. The chorus! I play this track over and over. What a baller move to end this album on that unresolved chord. I associate Cat Steven’s with so many pieces of video media as well. “This is Us” uses him almost obsessively. And the title track of which I am enamored is from “Extras”. All in all, good vibes on this album and some substance

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

The rare mix of dentist’s office music and sex!

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Perfectly fine, if a bit generic sounding to me. Nice harmonies and some good toe tappers, many I’ve heard before.

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Gosh I didn’t like this at first but then it really sunk into me—melodic, varied, and loved the last track.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Heard quite a few of these love standards before. Between Cat Stevens and Van Morrison, it’s been a gravel-voiced balladeer couple of days

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Knew the “Pain and Sorrow” song, but not the others. Fun punk vibe with Bjork’s unmistakable voice. These guys had fun making this.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Some classics on here—interesting to listen to Madonna’s voice for a whole album. It’s strangely distinct—nothing spectacular. She has charisma though.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Fun and nostalgic! I’m a 90s kid so remember this well. Made me wanna go thrift shopping and for a pointless drive. Harkens back to the particular 90s snark

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

Put me in a terrible mood

The Who Sell Out

The Who

5/5

Love The Who- they are so tongue and cheek here and you can see Jen playing around with stuff that ended up creating rock opera!

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Started off sounding generic, but there were some bops in here. The title track slaps