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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.46	+1.54
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly	4	2.94	+1.06
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	4	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.97	-1.97
Younger Than Yesterday The Byrds	2	3.14	-1.14
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	2	3	-1

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Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

A phenomenal album with a funky sound, an artist with an admirable commitment to freedom, and lyrics that are easy for an English speaker to understand but with hidden depths and a biting political message. No complaints.

9 likes

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Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

The trio has strong voices and a good sense of harmony, but a lot of the tracks blend together. I'm also not huge on country, even if I respect the craft and absolutely adore Dolly Parton as a person. I probably won't be coming back to this one.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

Some pretty creative lyrics and themes going on. I'm not totally sure how to describe the sound, since I don't normally listen to a lot of British alternative rock, but it's interesting.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

A compelling album with varied, beautiful sounds. Though I'm not sure if this deserves a full 5 stars, I'd have definitely given this 4 and a half if I could. Very strong showing.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

Not great. There are a couple okay tracks, but when I spend about half of the album just waiting for it to be over, it's not a good sign.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

As far as the main selection of the album goes, it's pretty middle of the road. It doesn't do anything amazing or mindblowing, but it's not doing anything terrible, either. However, it really picks up with the acoustic and demo tracks into a much more interesting and beautiful sound. But it feels weird to rate an album so highly based on bonus tracks, so, 3/5.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

On a first listen, I'm really not a fan of the sound direction here. Apparently this is Bush's most eccentric album, so I might be missing something.

The Joshua Tree

3/5

A couple high points, but overall, nothing that made me feel strongly.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Wish I could give this a 3.5, because it deserves better than just a 3. I like their style. Just dunno if it quite deserves a grade quite as high as a 4.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

Solid classic rock goodness. Kinda surprised to see this was 1983 by the time Def Leppard was apparently making themselves more "radio-friendly", but my '90s kid brain has a skewed perspective of where music friends fall on the timeline, I guess. Hopefully there's some earlier Leppard in the 1001 for me to compare this to.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

More classic rock goodness.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Morrisey's a piece of doodoo, but damn if this isn't some of the finest doomer music to come out of a country besides Russia.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Not bad. Nothing quite wowed me, and I'd give it a 3.5 if I could.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

I feel like I'm contractually obligated to say, "Fuck Morrisey". That said, he still makes damn good music.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Side A is pretty good, but let's be real - we're here for the title track, and it is killer.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Raw as hell, with innovative sounds, killer instrumentals, amazing vocal delivery, and a based lyrical message. The only thing more I can ask is more of this, please.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

Not feeling this one. Maybe I've just found a bad copy of the album, but I'm not big on the psychedelic sounds.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Varied sound, strong beats, killer lyrics - pretty much all the strongest points of hip-hop. Quite a few verses had me impressed with their creativity. Wu-Tang Clan is a legendary group for a reason.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Classic jazz, and Vaughan has a phenomenal singing voice. A good selection of songs, including some old classics like "Willow Weep for Me". It's probably longer than most listeners may be comfortable with, but that just makes this even more impressive, because it was a live performance.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Good ol'-fashioned blues. Mellow and pleasant enough to make good background listening, but more importantly, very rewarding for those who focus on the music itself.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

It's Jimi goddamn Hendrix.