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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tommy The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	5	3.39	+1.61
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.55	+1.45
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38
Triangle The Beau Brummels	4	2.71	+1.29
Faust IV Faust	4	2.77	+1.23
Tago Mago Can	4	2.79	+1.21
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	4	2.81	+1.19
London Calling The Clash	5	3.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
LP1 FKA twigs	1	2.81	-1.81
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	1	2.74	-1.74
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	1	2.65	-1.65
The Wildest! Louis Prima	2	3.53	-1.53
The Predator Ice Cube	2	3.26	-1.26
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	2	3.24	-1.24
Pink Flag Wire	2	3.21	-1.21
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	2	3.2	-1.2
Le Tigre Le Tigre	2	3.14	-1.14

5-Star Albums (7)

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Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

One of my all time favs although nostalgia certainly plays a huge part in that. Love all the samples and am constantly realizing more and more samples as I learn new music. One of the best debut albums of all time.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

So much going on, they shred, roast everything and everyone they don’t like and don’t give a fuck what people think. Pretty bad ass. I’d say my rating is closer to 3.5 but rounding down more for my style/genre preferences

Gorillaz

3/5

Clint Eastwood slaps Punk felt like it could’ve been pulled from the 70s punk era (I’m sure that was the point) but well done Double bass is a sick (almost fully) instrumental Feel like they cover a lot of genres which is cool The idea of a “virtual band” (which I just learned about) is cool but I feel like 20 years later still hasn’t really taken off which lessens the power of how groundbreaking/influential this really is, enjoyed this more than expected so gonna give this a low 3

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

The beginning was captivating and the transitions between the first few songs were really good but the rest is more of the same. Seems a little early for this album to be on this list. Who knows the eventual influence it may have but right now it’s a 5 year old album that has little impact in pop music/culture. If I died without hearing this (the whole concept of the list) I wouldn’t be missing out. Still enjoyable to listen to and deserves a 2.5ish bumped to 3 stars

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

Not my style but definitely important and features some good tracks. Today was a good day is a classic and I enjoyed Now I Gotta Wet ‘Cha. Also don’t like when albums have skits

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

I refuse to believe this is the Indian album I need to listen to before I die. Some cool instrumentals but wouldn’t return to this. Honestly seemed kind of white washed, there is no way “One two cha cha cha” is the pinnacle of western music. Had high hopes for this and it did not live up to being on this list although I certainly don’t have any context from the movie

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Oh I’m so horny Roundabout is a banger Whenever the album starts to lose me some crazy bass or piano pulls me back in Idk where Long distance runaround became fish but that stretch was sick (especially fish) Mood for a day totally switched up the vibe right after felt like I was in medieval times Heart of the sunrise was awesome Really cool cover of America Overall thought after roundabout the first half lulled a little but the second half was amazing

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

2/5

This is weird to rate. On one hand this style hasn’t really aged within pop music and I don’t really see myself coming back to this. However the trumpet is really good and scat singing is always fun and was influential at the time. Never knew who Jump, Jive and Wail was originally by so that was cool. This is somewhere between 2 and 3 and I think I need to lean towards 2 relative to my other reviews

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

This was overall really good. The instruments/lo-fi vibe fits really well with the lyrics but could also be listened to casually while studying or working without tuning into the depressing aura (although maybe you do want to be depressed when you’re studying or working) The Golden Age and Guess I’m Doing Fine stood out to me in the first half. Parts of Already Dead reminded me of No Rain by No Doubt. Definitely the kind of album you hope you don’t feel emotionally drawn to too often but that’s wishful thinking. These themes will be around as long as humanity is which will allow this album to age well. Strong 4/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

1/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

I liked Show Girl and American Guitars but otherwise this didn’t do it for me. The British punk Smiths-esque vocal sound has never been my thing. Probably missed out on some lyrics that would improve the rating as there were a few I really enjoyed.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

London Calling = banger Brand new Cadillac= love the bass line I’m blanking on what it reminds me of but I’m a fan Jimmy jazz= cool that they slow down and show some jazz elements like the sax Rudie Can’t Fail= Features the Bo diddley beat and specifically reminded me a lot of not fade away So many different sounds throughout the album Wrong em Boyo was really fun to listen to and had a lot going on I’ve always loved death or glory such a good song Amazing closer with Train In Vain I’m going for it and giving this a 5. So many good songs, arguably the best punk rock album of all time yet doesn’t pigeon hole itself into that description with so many different sounds and styles just in the one album

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Easy 5, make it a 6 for timing Comfortably numb is the greatest song of all time Transitions throughout are spectacular, as always for Floyd Mother stood out to me a lot more this listen than it ever had before, specifically “Mama's gonna make all of your/Nightmares come true/Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you” No rock opera will ever compare to this, there’s not enough to say about this

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

I loved the transition from Singing Winds, Crying Beast into Black Magic Woman starting a great three songs stretch to open the album. Santana is just a magician with the guitar and you could just listen to him on his own, which he knows and gives us in this album. Sleeper(?)pick Mother’s Daughter

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Jefferson Airplane-lite. Really liked Come All Ye and the end of Marty Groves was really cool. Not sure how often I’ll return to this but this is one of my favorite albums so far that I hadn’t heard of before

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

A lot of this reminded me of Roger Waters/the wall(forget which song but had Waiting for the Worms vibes). This was solid I enjoyed listening to this throughout, I thought the beginning was very strong and I really liked Live Bed Show

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Awesome version of bring it on home to me, I absolutely love Cupid and thought this chain gang was cool too

Garbage

3/5

Despite the name of the band and album, this was not garbage. Seems like they have some real self-esteem issues. This was pretty good I’m somewhere between 3-4 for this and we’ll see how I feel at the end. The intro to Supervixen was pretty cool.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Rednecks was really good and unfortunately still relevant. The album is enjoyable enough and many of the songs have some social commentary which explains the relevance to the list.

Le Tigre

2/5

Parts of this really rock but I’m not a huge fan of the singer and can’t understand the lyrics more often than I’d like

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Really liked the cover of I Got You Babe. Overall really enjoyable (believe it or not cause of the album cover). Somewhere between 3-4 stars

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

I’ve really tried to like this multiple times and it is just fine. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is the only song I really like and there are some others that are enjoyable but overall I’m just not a huge fan. There’s times Morrissey’s voice sounds really cool but the random moaning throughout is weird. This is still at least a 3 despite the harsh comments but just for an album with such high acclaim I don’t understand the raving about it.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

LP1

FKA twigs

1/5

She definitely has a good voice but this isn’t for me at all Only got worse after I wrote this ^

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Can’t imagine I’ll return to this but not upset I listened once, The Earth Died Screaming was both the coolest and most disturbing part

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

We are family obviously a banger and I really liked he’s the greatest dancer All around super groovy, bass is sick throughout

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Enjoyable to listen to, I really liked Blue Skies

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

A little long but some bangers Kashmir obviously a classic, I loved In the Light right after it and Custard Pie was a really strong start Might be unfair but think they have multiple better albums than this Soft 4

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

4/5

Love a good psychedelic album really simple and enjoyable

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

This grew on me as it went on, the guitarist is really good, doesn’t particularly stand out among punk music but another solid album worth the listen

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Another solid album fits right in with what I expected of Love

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

2/5

I expected this to be too poppy for my taste but it’s certainly unique even with that pop classification, I went back and forth on throughout the album, it’s not great song to song but the title track is of course a classic and I found myself nodding my head to the music a lot more than I expected. Love is a stranger was a good opening and one I didn’t know, however didn’t take much else from the album and is a soft 3 at best

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

2/5

There’s some artistic value here I guess but not for me and isn’t really any different than bone machine, has no business being the first artist I’ve seen twice and this barely gets the second star

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

Just another punk album, all the songs are super short don’t really get it

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Lot of good stuff here, will have to listen closer next time around to see more of the connection of the concept album. I was picking up some connections here and there but didn’t realize it was a full concept album which gets me going and bumps this from a 3 to a 4

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5