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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.43	+1.57
Gorillaz Gorillaz	5	3.53	+1.47
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	5	3.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	1	3.37	-2.37
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
American Beauty Grateful Dead	1	3.24	-2.24
Tommy The Who	2	3.34	-1.34
System Of A Down System Of A Down	2	3.26	-1.26
Paranoid Black Sabbath	3	4.2	-1.2
The Healer John Lee Hooker	2	3.19	-1.19
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	2	3.07	-1.07

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Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Just so smooth. Who else could get away with a song called Let's Get It On and then a song three songs later called Keep Gettin It On. Unparalleled swagger.

20 likes

Gorillaz

5/5

A reminder both of how good Clint Eastwood is and how many other great song are on this album that got overlooked. Tomorrow comes today, sound check, so good

2 likes

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Terrific. Flawless. I could listen to him vibe over a soul instrumental for hours

1 likes

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Gorillaz

5/5

A reminder both of how good Clint Eastwood is and how many other great song are on this album that got overlooked. Tomorrow comes today, sound check, so good

System Of A Down

2/5

Extremely raw. The double album is still king.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

Not for me but I can appreciate his appeal to men of a certain age

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Underwhelmed by the lesser-known songs. Can’t get into it.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

No wind up, the first song puts you in directly in the middle of their sound, in media res. I’m really digging this. Grunge-y, alt-rock. Strands of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Kate Bush is such a weirdo I love it. Fave song: Rocket’s Tail.

1999

Prince

4/5

Essentially perfect.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Terrific. Flawless. I could listen to him vibe over a soul instrumental for hours

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Just so smooth. Who else could get away with a song called Let's Get It On and then a song three songs later called Keep Gettin It On. Unparalleled swagger.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Liked it more than I ever thought I would. Harmonies, hooks, riffs, the lot.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

I’ve heard enough in movie sound tracks and on KHJ to know what i was getting into. Good stuff

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Just so good

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

1/5

I think I liked it? Like I liked how the music sounded in my ears, but I don’t know if I would ever listen again.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Bob Marley never really elicits any significant reaction when I listen to him. I dont dislike it but I’m not compelled to keep listening.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Not for me

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

A good ole time.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Legends

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Not sure I ever had the patience for Beck before now. I really enjoyed sitting with this album.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

5 on the back of the title track alone

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

Great songwriting. I’m sure the gravelly drawl appeals to certain crowd but I don’t love it.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

A significant portion of my feelings about REM were shaped by the scene in Tommy Boy of them singing “It’s The End…” on the road-trip. Michael Stipe’s voice has been incepted into my brain. Overall I liked this album and if I kept listening it would keep growing on me. Also am I wrong in thinking REM is a proto-ska band? So much brass. Highlights: The One I Love, Exhuming McCarthy, sax solo in Fireplace.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Outside of owner of a lonely heart I have essentially zero experience with Yes. They’ve got strands of Rush, Queen and Pink Floyd, though I guess most prog rock bands around that time have similarities. Perpetual Change is wild with that abrupt key/tempo change. Your move might be my favorite song bc of the harmonies. I liked this album more and more as it went along. Starship trooper is a lot of fun,too.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Still just as good a listen as it was 10 years ago. Easily Kendrick’s strongest, most cogent album, from features, production and lyricism. Outside of a few exceptions, skits on hip hop albums are immediate skip material. But these are so integral to the story, Kendrick’s parents bickering on a voicemail, his friends rapping young jeezy lyrics, recreating a hit. The production is so varied and interesting. Highlights: Money Trees, Back seat freestyle, sing about me I’m dying for thirst

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

1/5

Just a snooze fest. Can’t do it.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Clear highlights are White Rabbit and Somebody to love. Grace Slick’s vocals are iconic. Beyond that I didn’t love too much else. Embryonic journey was a really nice instrumental.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

There are a whole lot of extremely weird but memorable songs on this album (sexy Sadie, wild honey pie, piggies) which I always though was an odd choice to pair with so many serious and iconic Beatles songs (Blackbird, Julia, happiness is a warm gun). A heady mix. Used to listen to my dads vinyl of this all the time.