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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
White Light Gene Clark	4	2.84	+1.16
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	4	2.9	+1.1
Who's Next The Who	5	3.91	+1.09
Ten Pearl Jam	5	3.92	+1.08
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	2.92	+1.08
Very Pet Shop Boys	4	2.93	+1.07
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stooges The Stooges	1	3.25	-2.25

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

The album is so human. I don't know how else to put it. It acknowledges and adresses many of the things that influence us, religion, school, our peers, societal constructs. The beats are driving and the songs were written in the context of each other in a way that is missing from many albums. This was a cohesive project and tells a clear (and well articulated) story from beginning to end.

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

It is easy for an album like this to sound overproduced, but it doesn't feel that way at all. I appreciate how you can listen through without feeling like you're listening to a new song. It is cohesive, it feels like a club set, which should be a goal for this genre. I'm not super familiar with the genre overall, but this is surely a revolutionary album. I've not listened to really anything else like it.

Femi Kuti

3/5

I really appreciated this album and it was incredibly artful. I don’t see it being something I keep on rotation but if I heard it while out and about, I wouldn’t mind a bit.

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

This one is about the lyricism. Top tier. You can always count on 2pac for good music.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

The album feels overproduced and it was tough to really get into it. It’s definitely an outlier to a lot of 2010s music which I appreciate. I like a lot of the ideas here but it really didn’t do anything special for me. I’ll give it 3 stars to be generous.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Maybe it’s my bias in favor of rock and roll, but this album is and will always be one of my favorites. Its yet more evidence that the 90s were rich with music that has important impact on all music that came after. No notes.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Great sun out windows open album. It isn't afraid to take influence from early rock but it also has elements that you would expect from an album of this era. Truly good music. I judged this one by the cover at first and shouldn’t have.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

This album was emotional and enjoyable.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

Ethereal, whimsical, sophisticated rhythms and a fascinating combination of sounds. It feels experimental in a way. Overall I really liked it.

The Stooges

1/5

I really just did not like this much. It wasn’t cohesive and more than one song was super weird. I couldn’t get through it.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

This album just feels so random. And a little piratey at times? It’s definitely cool and musically very interesting. I just probably won’t ever listen again. It is an interesting auditory exercise.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Kind of strange but not bad

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Where has this been all my life!? Definitely has some… interesting bits. But it works. And parts are just musically wonderful. Just really astute and talented. I enjoyed this one. Not quite five stars but not quite four. I’ll go high to be polite.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Not many albums have more than one of the best songs ever written. But the whole album is just so incredible. One of my all time favorites. 5 stars.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Very British. I enjoyed. The premise is interesting and the sound is solid. Not great but good.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

JAZZ

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

I really just love jazz and this is some of the best I’ve heard in a while. It’s like NPR jazz hour but in my living room.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

2/5

Some great stuff but mostly not my vibe.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

This one got weird but was still fun.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Good road-trip tunes for the ride home for break

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

The pet shop boys have better stuff than this but I would say this is their median work and it’s a good representation of them. I liked the album. Stuff between three and four stars because I did download some of the music but not all of it.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Just so classic and wonderful.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

This is a great album. I’ve already downloaded a few of the songs but I enjoyed the ones I hadn’t heard before.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Makes use of some interesting instruments that you don’t hear enough of.