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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	5	2.49	+2.51
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	5	2.68	+2.32
Snivilisation Orbital	5	2.71	+2.29
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	5	2.77	+2.23
Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer	5	2.8	+2.2
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	5	2.87	+2.13
Gris Gris Dr. John	5	2.88	+2.12
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	5	2.89	+2.11
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	5	2.92	+2.08
Signing Off UB40	5	2.97	+2.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	2	3.61	-1.61
Pornography The Cure	2	3.31	-1.31
OK Computer Radiohead	3	4.1	-1.1
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	2	3.05	-1.05

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.75
Talking Heads	2	5
Isaac Hayes	2	5

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

5/5

Very cool atmospheric Math Rock. Will definitely be adding this to my “background music while I work” collection.

9 likes

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Awesome soul/funk music. It’s weird to listen to Isaac Hayes because I always think of Chef from South Park, but the dude is legitimately talented. This album is a bop.

6 likes

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

5/5

Surprisingly excellent. I’m a big punk fan but I’d never heard of The Fall and I’m so glad I did. Really cool kinda droning art-rock take on punk music. Reminds me of Velvet Underground or like a pre-LCD Soundsystem

4 likes

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

Very cool album I’d never heard before. You can definitely hear the roots of rock/jazz/singer-songwriters like John Mayer and Jack Johnson in here.

1 likes

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

An absolute stone-cold classic. An album you can listen to on repeat forever and never get sick of.

1 likes

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Sure Shot was a really sweet song. I didn't realize how "punky" early Beastie Boys was. Very cool mashup of punk rock and old-school hip hop. Really liked this album.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

I'm not really familiar with the Smiths beyond some cultural references and the song "This Charming Man". Album was fine. Didn't really surprise me, pretty much what I expected.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Traveling Man is a bop, everything I like about real country music. A few songs are too Bible-y for me, but overall, really solid album.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

I had always heard of the Talking Heads as being the “type” of band I would like, but never really listened to them. This album is really cool, and definitely seems like it was ahead of its time. Would have fit right in in the 90s. Some really good tracks on here.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

This is exactly the kind of thing I signed up for this service for. Never heard of Keith Jarrett before. This album is lit. Amazing solo piano jazz.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

It was fine. Never listened to much Depeche Mode other than the singles, and this was pretty much what I expected.

Wild Gift

4/5

Some real good older Riot Girl punk music. Reminds me of Blondie. Never heard of X before but I really like this.

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

4/5

I've never heard of this dude at all, but this music is great. Right up my alley. Some cool funk/reggae vibes.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Excellent album. Really fun old jazz

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

Heard OF this album many times. Let’s check it out

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

Very cool!

Os Mutantes

3/5

Very weird. Reminds me of cool old 70s horror films. Not the greatest music I ever heard, but I can definitely tell it would have been very influential for other weird music that came later.

The Cars

5/5

I love the Cars. This album has several of my favorite Cars songs on it. Amazing album

Snivilisation

Orbital

5/5

Very cool electronica. Enjoyed it a lot

The Undertones

5/5

Very cool old-school punk album. Sounds a lot like the first Clash album.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Poor man’s Phil Collins. Sounds like theme music to an 80s sitcom or Beverly Hills Cop or something.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

An absolute stone-cold classic. An album you can listen to on repeat forever and never get sick of.

Parklife

Blur

5/5

Really cool album. Lots of different styles of music mashed into one.

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

It was fine. Pretty generic “Oasis-type” 90s rock.

1999

Prince

5/5

Prince was a true original, one of the greatest musicians to ever walk the Earth. This album ROCKS

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Pretty cool atmospheric indie rock. Reminds me of Bright Eyes but less emo

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

4/5

Very cool Irish folk music. I spent 10 days in Ireland years ago, and this album brought me right back to the pubs. Wont be everyone’s cup of tea but I enjoyed it

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Kenya

Machito

5/5

Really really cool jazz! I loved this album

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Kinda neat. I can see how it would have been influential, but it wasn't a very fun thing to listen to.

Pretenders

4/5

Good! Cool 80s punk rock

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Great album, always a fun one to revisit.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Not for me. Kind of an "Enya" style electronica. Might be nice stuff to play in the background when I'm working or something.

Foo Fighters

5/5

I’ve listened to a lot of Foo Fighters, but never really went into this early stuff. I’m surprised by how much they sounded like Nirvana. Really solid rock songs throughout

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Pretty OK. I can see how it was influential but a lot of the "Native American influences" don't age well.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Cool old school hip hop

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

I generally like the Cure but this album does not hold up.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Very cool! I enjoyed it a lot. A hidden gem.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Actually way better than I expected! Really good 90s rock album

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Doesn’t hold up

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Love Creedence. This album lived up to expectations and then some.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

I get it, but it’s not for me.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Hot damn this one is a banger. I have liked everything from Sonic Youth I’ve heard in the past, but this whole album takes it to another level.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Meh. Old sad bastard music.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Really cool!

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Pretty cool electronica music. Feels like I’m in a 90s action movie

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Only listened to the first couple of songs, didn’t seem like my kind of thing. I’m not into Jesus stuff.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

5/5

A really cool hidden gem! I had never heard of Dr. John, but this is some awesome New Orleans jazz meets psychedelic nightmare fuel

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

Very cool album I’d never heard before. You can definitely hear the roots of rock/jazz/singer-songwriters like John Mayer and Jack Johnson in here.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

I love hip hop but this album doesn't age very well. It's got a few solid tracks but a lot of filler that just doesn't feel right.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Fine Christmas music compilation

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Very weird. Not my usual cup of tea but I'm glad I listened to it. It's definitely out there.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I love Stevie Wonder, and this album is solid. It’s not as poppy or catchy as some of his other stuff, but it’s really interesting and introspective and a little political. Loved it.

High Violet

The National

4/5

Pretty cool modern rock. A little slow and droning. Similar to Interpol.

Microshift

Hookworms

5/5

Really awesome! I had never heard of these guys, but it is just great cool driving indie rock.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Very cool. If Marty Robbins was a woman, he would have sounded a lot like this.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

Pretty wild stuff. This album is known for the popular hit Cars, and all the other music kinda sounds similar. But it’s funky new wave

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

5/5

Incredible! I have never heard of this artist, I have never heard of Brazilian jazz or whatever this is. But the music is just great. And the singer is incredible even though I do not understand the language she sings in, and the music just has a great jazz punk rock fusion going on. Like a cosmic gumbo.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

5/5

It is uncanny how much the White Stripes sound like these guys. Never heard of them before but this album is fire.

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Cool rock album. Nothing super special but some solid rock tunes.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Meh

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Meh

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Really cool slow moody electronica. Nice vibe.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

It's Madonna. Good for what it was at the time, but nothing particularly mindblowing. Has a bit of the "Seinfeld effect" where it was so original and genre-defining at the time, that now it feels 'hacky' and 'derivative' of all the things that came after it.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

5/5

Excellent punk album, with a little bit of a jazzy feel on a couple of songs. A lot of fun

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

A classic. Every song on this album is an absolute banger.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Fun early horror punk

Signing Off

UB40

5/5

Reggae goodness

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

Fun weird 70s punk.

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Playing classic rock songs on the sitar? Sign me up. I can honestly say that I've never heard anything quite like this before.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Sweet smooth soul music.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Not my thing.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

A rock opera about a boy who is blind, deaf, and mute but sells his soul to an old gypsy woman in order to become a world class pinball player by playing with his sense of smell. I didn’t have enough LSD on hand to enjoy it the way it’s meant to be enjoyed, but it’s a true original and a great classic rock album.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Very interesting early soul music. If you like soul and R&B, this album is an interesting look at the early development of the genre.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Interesting 90s alt rock. I’m not sure I “get” what was influential or unique about it, but if you like alt rock, it’s worth a listen.

The Specials

5/5

I am a ska fanatic and this is an absolute classic. YMMV if you don’t appreciate the genre of kings.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

5/5

Very cool atmospheric Math Rock. Will definitely be adding this to my “background music while I work” collection.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Pretty good 80s rock.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Pretty much what I expected. It’s Simon and Garfunkel noodling on acoustic guitars and reciting poetry. Great music, classics, but pretty bland.

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Awesome. Cool prog rock originals, great walking music or just music to put on when you want a good vibe.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Great tunes.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

5/5

Never heard of Julian Cope but this is a great album. Sort of post-punk grungy stuff. Will definitely be exploring some more of his music.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Some good old-fashioned 60s psychedelic rock. Eric Clapton sounds amazing.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Excellent. Elton John is a true original and this is one of his best albums.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Interesting hip hop.

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

Awesome. Just a fun electronic album. Daft Punk are one of a kind.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Seemed better than his Smiths stuff but not much. Meh.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

5/5

Very interesting! I like it. I’ve never listened to samba music but it has a really nice vibe.

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Amazing early punk. Like a female Bob Dylan with an edge.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Awesome post-rock. Killer beats, fun lyrics, just an all around banger.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Soulful folky indie rock. A little generic but good.

Bad Company

5/5

Just good old fashioned 70s rock. Every song on this album is a banger.

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Not the Beatles greatest album, but one of the better ones. A nice “middle ground” between the poppy early stuff and the psychedelic LSD stuff.

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

5/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

5/5

Another badass classic punk album. I hadn’t heard this one but it’s a lot of fun. I’m a big fan of punk in general, so YMMV but this is my jam.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Pretty cool. Interesting spin on alt/punk making it almost twee.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

When I think Beatles, I think of this album. This and the White Album are them at their peak.

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Really good stuff. Modern blues-rock.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

This is fire!!! Really cool instrumental soul/rock. You’ll definitely recognize a few tracks on here.

The La's

5/5

Never heard this before but it’s quite good! Awesome early 90s alt rock. Bit of a “one hit wonder” with There She Goes, but honestly every song on this album could have been a massive hit.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

It's Zeppelin. It doesn't need a review. Greatest rock band of all time.

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Pretty fun funky oddball tunes.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Pretty cool.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Really cool low key “background music”. Great for work or studying

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Actually amazing. Really cool funk/jazz combo. No words, just grooves.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Kanye has just gotten crazier and crazier over time, but this album is pretty good.

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Surprisingly good. I was too young to appreciate this when it came out.

Achtung Baby

3/5

It's fine. I don't particularly care for U2 but it's cool to hear what they used to sound like.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

Very interesting funk/metal/ska hybrid. Never heard of these guys before but they kinda slap!

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

One of those albums that sounds generic now because it was so groundbreaking that it got imitated for 20 years. Metallica are douchebags but this album is still a classic.

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

Not my thing. It does sound surprisingly modern for being from the 80s though.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Not my normal style of music but it's interesting folk music from an era/culture I don't know a lot about.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

If you like 70s rock, you'll like this. It's very fun.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Fun 60s rock. A few real bangers on here, especially Shake It Up, Kicks, and I'm Not Your Stepping Stone

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Big Beatles fan but never really dove into Paul’s solo stuff. It’s quite good. Some really good Beatles-ish music

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

Really good riot grrl garage rock meets singer songwriter stuff.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Neat 90s electronica.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Generic 80s rock.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Awesome soul/funk music. It’s weird to listen to Isaac Hayes because I always think of Chef from South Park, but the dude is legitimately talented. This album is a bop.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

Meh

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Great cool 90s techno/ambient tunes. One of my all-time favorite background music albums

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Great early 2000s pop punk. One of the defining albums of that sound.

Me Against The World

2Pac

5/5

A true original. This album feels like it has an aged a day

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

The Talking Heads are way more talented than their one-hit wonder status would ever suggest. Every album sounds great and decades ahead of its time. This one is no exception.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

Pretty cool rock album. Nothing mind blowing but solid and interesting.

S&M

Metallica

5/5

Metallica ended up turning into pretty big douchebags, but this album was a real seminal moment for metal as a whole. 20+ years later, it still holds up as a great live album and a cool mashup of heavy metal with a symphony orchestra.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

5/5

Pretty cool 90s electronica. A lot of fun. Cool look at that moment where hiphop and electronica were just starting to part and go their separate ways.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Like what do you need to know about it? One of the most iconic rock albums of all time. Every song is great. Don’t sit here and read reviews of it, just go listen to it you lunatic!

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Really cool Irish folk/punk music mashup. Some really memorable interesting music here. The lead singer can be very mumbly at times, but this is probably the progenitor of stuff like Bedouin Soundclash, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Gogol Bordello, etc.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Greatest jazz album of all time. No matter how you feel about jazz normally, this one will pluck your heart strings and make you appreciate something new from it.

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Interesting moody electrojazz. Sci fi film noir music.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

If you like grunge, you'll dig this. Jane's Addiction have always been one of the forgotten grunge bands, overshadowed by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc. But they have a really fun vibe, a little less dark than the others.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Very fun electronica. Lots of cool samples and fun vibes.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

Nothing special, but a pretty fun electronic album.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

It's fine. Cool 70s rock, but nothing that really jumps out and makes it feel unique.