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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	3.62	+1.38
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	3.39	-2.39
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
American Beauty Grateful Dead	1	3.25	-2.25
Tommy The Who	2	3.33	-1.33
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 · 22 likes

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.

Gorillaz

Gorillaz · 2 likes

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

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes · 1 likes

5/5

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

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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.