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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Slider T. Rex	5	3.28	+1.72
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	5	3.3	+1.7
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	5	3.53	+1.47
Stankonia OutKast	5	3.55	+1.45
Moon Safari Air	5	3.58	+1.42
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	5	3.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.6	-1.6
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	2	3.47	-1.47
Younger Than Yesterday The Byrds	2	3.13	-1.13

5-Star Albums (16)

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The Slider

T. Rex

5/5

Loved it. Ty Segal made a career ripping this album off

1 likes

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

landmark riffy stoner rock. i really love this album, but QOTSA would scale to more glorious heights on subsequent releases.

1 likes

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

my favorite stones album

1 likes

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Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

So so 80s sounding. Enjoyable but didn't stick with me.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

enjoyed it. dense funk. would like to regularly revisit.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Glad I listened. Won’t really return. Too shout rap-y

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Fun funky background music. Good party soundtrack

The Slider

T. Rex

5/5

Loved it. Ty Segal made a career ripping this album off

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Good. Won’t ever actually listen.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Hell yeah

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

revisit. enjoyed the 90s sleazeball vibes

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

So cheesy. Would rather listen to literally any other hard rock. But, gotta respect.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Chill and weird in all the best ways

Metallica

5/5

15 year old me loved this. 35 year old me loves this just as much.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

It's not Aja. Enjoyable, easy listening, smooth yacht rock. Nothing too innovative to my ears.

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

enjoyable, but sounded like generic background head nodding dormroom rap. maybe just a testament of how influential their sound was

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

how did i miss amy winehouse? embarrassed this was totally a musical blind spot to me. 2 listens through and loved the jazzy r&b with swagger and flair.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

slept on it, and i have to award 4 stars. it's a classic of the era, but i'd elevate the best of animal collective, bon iver, fleet foxes, dirty projectors, wolf parade etc over this. still, this album holds up incredibly well. delicate, lush, colorful, melancholy, layered songs without any duds front to back.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

this is what 5 stars sounds like. listened to this back to back last night, finding new layers to enjoy each time. going to be listening to this a whole whoooole lot this year.

Violent Femmes

3/5

really enjoy this, surprised at how solid and consistent this album is. kind of assumed this band was a one hit wonder. seems like prototypical 80s college playing hackey sack out on the quad rock.

Bert Jansch

3/5

enjoyable, but would rather just listen to nick drake

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

i do love dino jr, but cant say this is a 5 star album. there are other bands of their ilk with catchier more memorable songs, and bands with noisier more chaotic guitar. i personally prefer their post 2007 comeback albums over their earlier stuff.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

a few great songs, but album gets bogged down. i'm glad they exist, but would rather just listen to the cure.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

one of the best albums of all time. love the album structure. glorious space rock in both shine on. each of the middle 3 have such a unique floyd vibe. could be a top 10 album OAT for me.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

loved this on first listen, what a cool discovery hidden gem. seems like the missing link between early pink floyd and T. Rex. Whimsical psychedelic brit pop meets garage-y glam punk. looking forward to revisiting.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

80s classic. Album fucks

The Stooges

4/5

the first few songs rocked so hard i still haven't made it through the entire album. another one of those foundational bands i didn't have much exposure to. i'd be happy if every dive bar i ever walk into ever again is playing the stooges.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Liked much better than Paul’s boutique. Cool dense jazzy instrumentation and less grating shout rap. Still, not going to return to this often.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

2/5

This just didn’t engage me at all

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Had never sat down and listened to Janis. This album smokes front to back. So much soul

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Warm 70s fm rock. Will love to revisit. Out of CSNY I am the least familiar with S

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

fun listen. liked instrumental steely dan.

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

landmark riffy stoner rock. i really love this album, but QOTSA would scale to more glorious heights on subsequent releases.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

genuine 5 stars for me. this is one of the best "airplane" albums of all time, which is a compliment.

Technique

New Order

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

had always assumed deep purple was super cheesy glam rock. enjoyed this more than i anticipated, but probably wont revisit. iron maiden scratches this itch for me.

2112

Rush

3/5

glad i listened, and i do appreciate rush. probably wont revisit.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

my favorite stones album

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

great album! one of the best of the 2000s

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

love alot of later day ryan adams but havent ever spent time with this one. busier song writing, less vibey than alot of what i like of his. but solid!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

obviously a classic. the opening minute of the opening track gives me chills

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

i'm not deep enough in bowie to know where this ranks. enjoyed it but liked it less than ziggy stardust or low, which are my go-tos

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

it's great! seems like a more cerebral, atmospheric, less rousing set of smiths songs

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

solid cock rock

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

very generic 90's trip hop elevator music

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

always felt like this album is a bit bloated and scattershot. but compared to their other airtight masterpieces, it's meandering length is why i love this release.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

personal top 10 of all time. i love this album dearly.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones