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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Butterfly Mariah Carey	5	2.48	+2.52
O.G. Original Gangster Ice T	5	2.97	+2.03
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	5	3	+2
Groovin' The Young Rascals	5	3.02	+1.98
Another Green World Brian Eno	5	3.12	+1.88
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
American Pie Don McLean	5	3.28	+1.72
Stardust Willie Nelson	5	3.39	+1.61
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	5	3.53	+1.47
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Low-Life New Order	1	3.3	-2.3
Liquid Swords GZA	1	3.28	-2.28
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	2	3.21	-1.21
Melody A.M. Röyksopp	2	3.21	-1.21
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	2	3.2	-1.2
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde The Pharcyde	2	3.13	-1.13
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (14)

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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Tremendous variety on this one. Great instrumental folk, excellent blues, as well as the widely known psychedelia

4 likes

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

5/5

Holy cow! Such an amazing collection of songs... This is a killer album, and I'm adding it to my library for repeated listens.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Fun, a little repetitious, I like my funk a little more motivating. These grooves did not make me dance.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Interesting mix of classic Leonard Cohen stuff and some crazy tracks that almost sound like a joke at Leonard's expense (Diamonds in the Mine). Not my cup of tea.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Probably his greatest studio album, every track is a candidate for a greatest hits collection. Surprising me was the use of saxophone on nearly every track, a feature explained by the history of the album and Billy's desire to use his touring band in the studio. It's really the first album by "The Billy Joel band"

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Generally catchy, unremarkable pop, but with some of the horniest lyrics and vocal performances. Songs range from angst-washed to sultry.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Songs feel familiar, catchy, but inconsequential. The same feelings they gave me in 1987, so I guess that means the album holds up?

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Startlingly spare.

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Not as polished as I remember, she sounds so young!

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Sounds like Bob Ezrin more than it sounds like Peter Gabriel, except Solsbury Hill, which outshines every other track by a mile

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Organic and hypnotic, I enjoyed this more than I thought I would

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Technically proficient, but frenetic and in no way emotionally diverse. This is a somewhat difficult listen.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

So fun, still holds up.

John Prine

4/5

Subversive folk music masquerading as country. I can respect that

Violent Femmes

4/5

Total classic.

Low-Life

New Order

1/5

Nearly unlistenable boring garbage

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Completely approachable, dynamic, timeless

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Starts off interesting, devolves into the prototype for "new age" music, not a fan.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

A pretty good Christmas album, it hits the high points

Van Halen

5/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

Kind of amazing, actually. Timeless. Will add to my library.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Lots of songs you know. The vocal style that is so identifiable becomes grating over the course of an album. It feels almost tuneless. A kind of "yelling over the top of" with no noticeable variation.

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

5/5

Holy cow! Such an amazing collection of songs... This is a killer album, and I'm adding it to my library for repeated listens.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

I bet I will like this: her Cole Porter songbook is one of my absolute favorites.

American Pie

Don McLean

5/5

Amazing folk album, with lovely understated acoustic guitar, and outstanding vocal performances.

The Clash

4/5

The prototype, evidently, of song structures, vocal stylings, and sonic palette for my beloved Dead Milkmen.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

So David. Much Bowie. Sweet and inoffensive. Not compelling.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Only the title track is worth knowing.

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Curious inclusion on the list - maybe this was ground-breaking at the time, but it just comes across as tame "producer" music in this day and age.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Instant classic, smart, and we'll produced

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

Annoying, self-indulgent dreck only an album critic could love

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Always entertaining, Willie delivers the standards as only he could. Probably the first perfect album on listened to on this list.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

I don't know the genre enough to know if this is groundbreaking, but it's not terrible. Perhaps I am jaded of its imitators?

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Much better rock album than I could have anticipated. A really good lsiten.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

High energy, fun, but not totally compelling for me.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

2/5

I don't get it. It feels like the ambient stuff that any number of amateurs could make today.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Tremendous variety on this one. Great instrumental folk, excellent blues, as well as the widely known psychedelia

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Excellent. Bold, delicate, really the full gammut.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Wow, wow, wow. So many bangers on this album. Just undeniably good.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

The original gangster raps, Marty throws down about loose women, crimes of passion, being born into criminal enterprise, and getting your slice of the pie. A little repetitious, the album mastering is inconsistent. But the sings are classics.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

Did not expect to like this record as much as I did. Groovy, catchy, very good.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Fun, simple. I remember how some of my peers in the eighties we're entranced by it.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Fun, solid.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Fun, eclectic.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Not my favorite version of Megadeth, but some classics are on this one.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Not my cup of tea, it all sounds the same, not particularly moving

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Absolute classic

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

5/5

Not my usual music, and I find the artist to be unrelatable in interviews I've seen, but this was quite good. Pretty remarkable album, really.

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

Nope - do not see what is special about this album

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

5/5

Love the metal cross over - enjoy the sarcasm/humor/honesty/angst

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

5/5

Exceptional, revelatory, excellent. How had I never heard of this?

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

More Rock than I ever knew the Talking Heads could be. Some good tracks in there

Liquid Swords

GZA

1/5

I don't get it. Most tracks sound like multiple rappers were recorded independently and their performances were layered together without regard for overlap or context. Give me Ice T or 50 Cent over this any day.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Good old roots blues, great guests.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Don't really get it.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

Like the piano and acoustic drum kit. Totally recognize some tracks. Has moments that I can groove with, but just isn't speaking to me.