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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	5	3.33	+1.67
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63
Dirt Alice In Chains	5	3.47	+1.53
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	5	3.5	+1.5
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	4	2.58	+1.42
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.58	+1.42
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.67	+1.33
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.71	+1.29

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
1989 Taylor Swift	2	3.27	-1.27
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	2	3	-1

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The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Love this record. Start to finish it is great. Favorite son is Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains). Reminds me of growing up and nails the aprehension I feel for my children's future. It's nostalgia and dread all at once but in the best way. Technology and development are changing the world from what we grew up in to an uncertain future and no assurances of our place in it.

3 likes

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

This record is a mood. I like it and I will listen again. Wilmot is my favorite track.

1 likes

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Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Started somewhat slow but then really came on towards the end. The hit was Wake Up and it's a great song. Rebellion is great. Definitely an Arcade Fire album. Deep song meanings and such a wonderfully distinct sound. I think it will need to be listened to again to appreciate it fully.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

This is a fantastic album. Etherial sounds throughout. Themes of love and self reflection. It's a trip from start to finish. I want to listen to it again, and I want to listen to it again with my mind slightly altered.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

An album of 4 chord breakup songs. The music is okay, but not really my sort of thing. The big tracks are catchy and the appeal is obvious.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Funky. Soulful. Fun as hell. Addiction, lust, love, philosophy of life. Hits from start to finish. Flea's bass and Fruchante's guitar are awe inspiring, Kiedis's lyrics are insane at times and deeply powerful others. Chad Smith holds it all together with precision drumming throughout.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Early Stones with heavy blues influence. A lot of tounge in cheek digs at society of the times, just as sharp today as then.

Van Halen

3/5

I remember hearing this as a kid when my dad played the vinyl. Headbanging then and headbanging today. Insane riffs from Eddie catapults this record into the stratosphere. Van Halen taught a lot of people how to rock. Tap tap TAPAROOO, ERUPTION!!!

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Fiona's haunting voice and poignant lyrics with her piano holding it all together. Great album. New favorite track is "The First Taste" with a smooth bossanova sound and a well told story. "Pale September" is beautiful.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Non stop audio assault. Relentless energy start to finish. It must have been something to have been there to see this man live. He went 100 miles an hour his whole life and didn't care who he pissed off.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Good vibes and chill sound. Caribbean influence with spanish flair. This is the first album I hadn't heard before being recommended here and I like it. Maybe not an everyday listen, but around a campfire with friends would be the perfect ambiance. Pass the puff and relax into the mood.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Essential trip hop. Excellent album and has a spot in regular rotation.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Mid 90s electronic. I remember them from the Trainspotting soundtrack but never listened to anything else from them. Couple of bangers on there.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

The best Dylan album.

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Had never heard of this and now I am a big fan. What a great sound. Steel guitar solos, electric guitar, soulful vocals. Just great music.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

That's Jane's Addiction all right.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

This one surprised me. A few songs were old favorites, but some new good songs and the original of a song I didn't know was a cover.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

It is the acoustic equivalent of a mid 90s cross colors hoodie.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Couldn't name a Miles Davis track, but I know several albums and this one doesn't disappoint. Felt more up beat than Kind of Blue, but that makes sense even just from the titles. Great listen

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

Better than I had expected. There were a couple of tracks I liked and a few I didn't. Blank Space and Style were good, and you can't help but dance to Shake it Off.

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

This record is a mood. I like it and I will listen again. Wilmot is my favorite track.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

I had no idea this would be classified as a rock album, but it deffinitely is. Just the one massive hit off this record but a lot of good songs are there to hear.

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

The center of punk and rock fusing into grunge. Don't look too close or you'll go blind.

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

I can hear a lot of bands that came after Patti in this album.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Who doesn't like early Beatles. Classic songs throughout.

Technique

New Order

3/5

It is an interesting mix of early electronica and new wave melodies. Not bad

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

It was behind the TV the whole time! Haven't listened to this in a while and it was nice to revisit. Mike Skinner was criminally underrated.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

This is punk rock. Well informed and insightful lyrics, fast paced and driving sound, middle finger to the establishment. I think I have to go overthrow a government now.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

While not my favorite Bowie album, this one is still high on the list. It's such a departure from the earlier work of Ziggy. Great sound and rocking grooves drive this record.

Infected

The The

2/5

I liked Slow Train to Dawn.

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Syncopation and Chris Squire on bass. Yes Yes Yes!

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Another great from Marvin Gaye. This is the record to put on when it's time to get down.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

If this is truly the birth of punk rock, it's obvious. 30 minutes of classic punk.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Great album and an amazing talent. Damn shame what they did to her. So much soul and emotion bottled up in this record.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Didn't know the BeeGees did epic concept albums. Don't think I needed to know. Soaring sounds and odd subject matter. Not something I want to hear again, but glad I was able to hear this side of a band I thought was just disco pop.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

If you don't like this that's okay, but just know that you are wrong. One of the greatest hip hop records of all time not only on it's own but for everything that came after it.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

A record from 1983 that sounds like it sampled every hip hop album since 1990. Then it has some caribbean vibes and African influence to boot. What a wild ride.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

The best of the unbelieveable CCR run? I think so.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Jean Genie, Cracked Actor, and an interesting cover of 'Let's Spend the Night Together' were the highlights.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Love this record

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Weee ooooo this sounds just like Buddy Holly.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Weee ooooo this sounds just like Buddy Holly.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Kind of a mellow album from what I knew of The Boss. Good listening American music

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Elvis Costello is fine. It does mostly sound like the same song on repeat, but I wojuldn't call it bad music.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

SO many classics on this record. Excellent

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

The iconoic voice of Cohen is grating, but the message is powerful. Amazing poetry but musically I prefer it in small doses.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Easy listening. Amazing musicianship, these guys can flat out play. Surprisingly deep lyrics and themes. I had heard all the hits on the radio and knew they were very talented musicians, but I was never into it enough to actually listen. I have a new appreciation for Steely Dan.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

4/5

This is music to get romantic with. Like Led Zepplin IV in Fast Times but better

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Mellow trippy sounds.

Joan Baez

3/5

Beautiful voice. Some interesting covers that I hadn't heard before. Not something I would normally listen to, but I am glad to have heard it.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

This sounds like the orgins of The Dropkick Murphys. Irish folk and punk fusion with some middle eastern and spanish influence as well. What a wild mix of sound that comes together in a wonderfully strange way.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Good sound with a few standout tracks that I liked. Damaged and Movin on Up were favorites.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Linkin Park was super cool when I was 20. 20 years later, not so much. Lyrically interesting but the music just doesn't do anything for me almost to the point of being annoying.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

The harmonies.

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Nice ambient trip hop. Relaxing for work or studying

Bossanova