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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J	5	2.91	+2.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Lady In Satin Billie Holiday	1	3.23	-2.23
Call of the Valley Shivkumar Sharma	1	2.94	-1.94
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	2	3.35	-1.35
Let It Be The Replacements	2	3.25	-1.25
Virgin Suicides Air	2	3.24	-1.24
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	2	3.07	-1.07

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Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J · 8 likes

5/5

Holy damn wow. 1990?! 1990!!!!???!?! The whole album is good, with incredibly clever, powerful rhymes delivered perfectly, the mixing is great, the samples are minimal but effective--this is the perfect rap album, and I can't believe it happened in 1990. LL Cool J is the father of modern rap, and it's right here in this album. When he does the obligatory "I am the greatest at this and you suck" rap songs, a weird staple of all rap albums, I JUST NOD AND AGREE.

Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill · 2 likes

4/5

I mean, genius stuff. Punchy, fluid. Great mixing. Inventing things and reinventing things. Gritty and angry, but playful.

Doolittle

Pixies · 1 likes

4/5

Great 1989 alternative music--a bit punk, a bit itself. From the first track I knew them. (Debaser). The hits on this album are "Here Comes Your Man" and "Hey"--I also liked Debaser, I Bleed, Monkey Gone to Heaven--and Silver. Gouge Away is good too.

1-Star Albums (2)

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Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Title track is justifiable hit--clever, innovative, builds on what Beatles did. I liked Mrs. Vandebilt and Let Me Roll It... plenty of good tracks. But I'm done.

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

Slow, lush, and ponderous. Didn't grab me.

The xx

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Femi Kuti

3/5

I'd put it on. Well done.

Cypress Hill

4/5

I mean, genius stuff. Punchy, fluid. Great mixing. Inventing things and reinventing things. Gritty and angry, but playful.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

1/5

The only kind of jazz I listen to recordings of, this still didn't quite find way into me. Sorry Billie!

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

Love this. But will never listen to the whole album. Will probably never dip in again. great work though!

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

1/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

So *that's* where that came from... ("Passin' Me By"... I've heard it remixed and used in other places.) There isn't anything else on the album I loved-- though "Oh Shit" is pretty good.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Is this album the inspiration for Duval's "The Apostle"? I like how spare and clean the arrangements are. But I'm all set. Not for me.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

Fine, good, 1983 hardcore. No hits for me to remember, but the skill is there.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

No one receiving? -Okay! This is interesting stuff. I don't know I'm in 1977. I will listen to more at some point.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Eh. Opening track with Sinead O'Connor vocals was interesting...

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

A weird one, for sure--this is not the Bee Gee hits that you know (like "Stayin' Alive"), it's a moody concept album, and it wasn't well-received (Wikipedia). But playing the opening track (Odessa, City on the Black Sea)--I get it. They're doing something with a bit more of a timeless sound. Most of the album has that oozy feeling that I dislike about music of the era, but some of it is timeless and innovative.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

It's almost a kind of... zydeco/Dr. John sound? I've heard Moondance of course, which I took to be a sort of Jazz standard. I liked "Crazy Love"... but overall, the album all sort of blurs together into that swaggery voice thing... I appreciate the talent, but I am not a fan.

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

I should love this. I don't. Not sure why. Not punk enough anymore, and edging into an era of rock I'm all done with? I don't know. This bored me. Wild. Sorry!

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

5/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

This is good. But I have a lot of trouble listening to (and understanding) R&B.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Queen has 10 songs that everyone knows. And... and tons of other songs that nobody knows. A modern music listener could be forgiven for thinking of Queen as those 10 songs, and wishing, "gosh, wish I had more songs with Queen's sound!" Well... guess what? They're here. This was all... fine. But I've got enough Queen sound already? I guess.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

It's... fine, I guess? People worked hard on making this album, and it sounds great. But I will never seek it out again.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Pretty great. Unhappy white boy punk music, smoother and less shouty than Ramones. Alternative rock from 90s/00s sounds like a descendent to this.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

1962, electric piano awesomeness. Instrumental. Lovely. Listenable. Anytime.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Okay--I vaguely recalled some of these songs, and thought it was pretty good, then wondered, "Wait, who's Oasis?" So I looked at their top songs--which are all from their later album and include... Wonderwall. Of meme fame. And Champagne Supernova, etc. I like this older album a bit better, it was more cluttered and had scratchy edges which I enjoyed. Overall though? This just isn't long-term-love music for me. It's good alt rock.