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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Liquid Swords GZA	5	3.28	+1.72
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	5	3.29	+1.71
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	5	3.29	+1.71
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem	5	3.42	+1.58
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.42	+1.58
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.42	+1.58
Imagine John Lennon	5	3.45	+1.55
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones	5	3.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	1	3.31	-2.31
Teen Dream Beach House	1	3.26	-2.26
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	1	3.16	-2.16
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	1	3.07	-2.07
Bandwagonesque Teenage Fanclub	1	3.06	-2.06
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard Thompson	1	3.05	-2.05
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	1	3.05	-2.05
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	2.91	-1.91
Is This It The Strokes	2	3.81	-1.81
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.7	-1.7

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Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	2	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Kraftwerk	2	1

5-Star Albums (14)

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Caetano Veloso

3/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

A few great timeless songs. However, overall not my style.

Debut

Björk

3/5

Such a unique artist but ultimately her voice starts to annoy me.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Interesting. Heard about this band a lot as a kid but never actually listen. Kind of remind me on Ministry minus the metal.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Great raw early 80s punk rock. I'd never given these guys a listen so glad it came up in the rotation. Also never realized that punk could be good for background work music.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Boring Lenny album

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

I just started listening to these guys about a month ago, but had not checked out this album. Overall pretty decent, however, Mezzanine is much better in my opinion.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Great album with a lot of classic LCD tunes

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

It's not bad, just to tame for me.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Good work music but didn't love it.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Never heard of this band but really enjoyed the album. It's easy to detect influences of Bowie, Radiohead, and several others without it feeling derivative.

Future Days

Can

2/5

Love prog rock but they took it a little too far.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

1/5

ughhhh

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Soothing background music

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Wilco! Had a lot of friends whose favorite band was Wilco back in the day. I always appreciated their music but never enough for regular rotation in my mix.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

I wasn't too familiar with The Smiths, as it was outside of the genres I listened to as a kid. However, this album is great and grew on me quickly. The song writing, particularly the lyrics, are incredible. There is a little bit of British pretentiousness that annoyed me a first but that quickly faded away. 4.5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

so good

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Love Bowie but this isn't my favorite album. Very creative and experimental for the time, but it lacks the magic of Bowie's voice.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

When I hear ZZ Top all I think is 'old tired rock' due to all the rock radio I listened to as a kid. However, I will say, even though it is overplayed and tired these guys are/were pretty talented. Plus this music just makes me wish I was driving a fast car through some long desert roads.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

Not my style but seems fine for what it is.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Amazing classic album

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

This was a hard one to digest for me. Creativity and uniqueness is a major attribute of bands I love, and these guys definitely have that. What I'm kind of meh about is the music outside of those creative elements. It feels canned, whiny, tame. I know nothing about the bands background but it seems to me this is what you get when you have semi-talented musicians, whose rich parents bought them all the toys to facilitate the musical creativity.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Not a huge crooner fan but Frank is probably one of the best. 3 stars for making it listenable.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Never heard of them before but it reminded me of some of the corny rap I listened to in the early 90s. 3 stars for nostalgia and being ok.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Good production, but didn't really capture me. I do like this style when it's more upbeat and in your face but this was more like gypsy elevator music.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

I want to be cool enough to like ATCQ but it just doesn't really get me excited.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Beautiful voice and rich textured music. Enjoyed it a lot but I wouldn't seek it out on purpose, however, would listen if came up in a playlist.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Not my favorite Who album by far.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

THE King of Pop, enough said. Four stars because it's pop and also probably not the best album.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Probably my 3rd or 4th favorite Radiohead album but still 5 stars for those with taste.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

So many classic rock hits on one album. Too bad there are several filler songs that are super boring. Plus that rock radio has overplayed all of the good songs to absolute death.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

Hated it.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Sympathy and Street fighting are such damn good songs. The rest of the album is good but a bit forgettable for the Stones.

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Just a really great album.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Those opening notes to Gimme Shelter...

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Stevie the hit machine. Unfortunately even though he's written multiple hits per album there is just a lot of filler too. 4 stars.

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

It's not great, it's not bad, but definitely stale.

Headquarters

The Monkees

2/5

I didn't make it far into the album but it's 60s pop music for a TV show so....

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

1/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Kind of like Radiohead met Ed Sheeran... not sure what to do with this. Don't hate it though.

Technique

New Order

2/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Meh

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

1/5

I found this album very boring and droning.

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Pet shop boys of the 80s > 90s

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

Why this PE album? Not good. Bring the noize is pretty much the only good song.

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Pretty great reggae

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

1/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

1/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Poor man's Cure

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Really great TH album. Possibly the best...

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

I found this album to be pretty boring.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

I really enjoyed the a-side of this album. Never heard of this band before but kind of a great example why I wanted to do this album activity. Will definitely seek out some of this bands other hits.

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/5

Too tired to write a review.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Not my thing at all

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

Meh

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

I thought this would be better than it was. A lot of slow paced r&b vs funkiness.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Very 90s but forgettable

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

I was WAY into this band back in the early 2000s. Both this album and Science we so damn good. Unfortunately after they parted ways with their bass player their writing style changed to be pretty tame so I stopped listening.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Good stuff but missing Young! Deju vu is still the best album from these guys.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

Never really understood these guys popularity in the 90s.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

The Modern Lovers

2/5