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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	4	2.62	+1.38
Bright Flight Silver Jews	4	2.69	+1.31
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	5	3.93	+1.07
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	4	2.98	+1.02
Killing Joke Killing Joke	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beautiful Freak Eels	1	3.28	-2.28
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	2	3.87	-1.87
Dirt Alice In Chains	2	3.47	-1.47
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	2	3.39	-1.39
Urban Hymns The Verve	2	3.36	-1.36
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	2	3.26	-1.26
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	2	3.24	-1.24
Dear Science TV On The Radio	2	3.16	-1.16
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	2	3.07	-1.07
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	2	3.03	-1.03

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Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Please respect my privacy at this time.

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1-Star Albums (1)

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Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

I listened to it.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

Still not dead.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

I'm alive!

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

An album dedicated to the families of 9/11 victims includes the song "Work It". 4/5 stars.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

The world's quintessential 3/5.

Talvin Singh

3/5

Where is the 2.75 stars option?

Suede

4/5

The opening 27 seconds of "Metal Mickey" alone is worth 3 stars.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

The organ really is something, isn't it?

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

More thankful for it than into it. You can't have psych rock revivals without some psych rock to revive in the first place.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

No thanks!

Beautiful Freak

Eels

1/5

I thought I had to save 1-star reviews for U2 and the Doors but here we are

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

If this is a four, what am I saving fives for?

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

Untrustworthy. But there is some guitar work worth something.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

At some point in my life I wanted more Spacemen 3 but got this instead. /uj According to the "cafe rating scale", this is a 3 (I would not flee). The difference between a 2 and a 3 is largely hostility. Even if this record and that Tom Waits one are basically equivalent in how much "active interest" I have in them, Tom Waits carries "active repulsion" so he's going to get a 2 while this doesn't.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Easy 4. I didn't realize.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Okay.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

When I was 15 this was VERY IMPORTANT.

Vespertine

Björk

3/5

Where's that 3.75-star option?

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

I did dance a little.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

I did not *have* to hear this.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Guru has his moments, but DJ Premier is one big moment here.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Three. Everything's a three unless I am especially moved (in either direction).

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

I like it when people enjoy making music.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Never disappoints. Even though every time I come in thinking "This has got to be overhyped, right?"

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

I want to be reincarnated as a square wave

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Lots of albums on this list aren't a "must" "before you die". This one is. Historic.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Maybe it's not as ✧･ﾟsophisticated ･ﾟ✧ as Tool, but it's still good.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Trip hop's Straight Outta Compton.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

2/5

Laying the groundwork for his cameo on The Simpsons. (I was going to leave it at that and give this a 3... but then the second half of the last song ruined it. Literally removing a star because of the last two minutes of "Suite for 20 G".)

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Please respect my privacy at this time.

Killing Joke

4/5

It kept getting better (very rare for an album to do!)

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Listen. I think Neil Young is great. An immense talent. A purveyor of bangers. But 9 appearances on this list?

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

To quote myself on a previous "listen to these albums" quest: "Hanging on the Telephone" *swoon*

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

The opening 17 seconds of "Shining Star" have more relaxed confidence than I've felt in my entire life.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

That drum sound is very LCD Soundsystem

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

Music for me.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Tough call.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Sometimes this list feels like it's about quality, sometimes about breadth, sometimes about influence. But why is this here?

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Happy to come back.

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

On the "café scale" this is a solid 4; I'm settling in, eating my chocolate croissant a little slower, ready to stay. But I'm never going to put this on for me.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Solid late 80s alternative. (And, for some of us, our introduction to Björk.)

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Did Leonard Cohen lose a bet? I'm glad he did.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

What are these star ratings for? Like the list itself, sometimes they're about "objective quality + importance", sometimes they're reflecting something about *me*, sometimes literally *who the hell knows what's going on*, and sometimes I'm just being a little saucy. Anyway, I'll tell you who they're not for: Stevie Wonder. He doesn't need me to tell him he made something great. Four stars.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

2/5

It was something in its time

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

Like LLMs, this record doesn't innovate in any way, it just regurgitates what's around it. A predictable outcome of its environment.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

D. H. Peligro was a gift to the world.