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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	5	3.2	+1.8
1989 Taylor Swift	5	3.27	+1.73
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.44	+1.56
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4	2.65	+1.35
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.71	+1.29
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	5	3.79	+1.21
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.83	+1.17
Very Pet Shop Boys	4	2.93	+1.07
Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Let It Be The Replacements	1	3.25	-2.25
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.97	-1.97
Go Girl Crazy The Dictators	1	2.84	-1.84
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.83	-1.83
Doolittle Pixies	2	3.74	-1.74
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
Jazz Samba Stan Getz	2	3.57	-1.57
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	2	3.47	-1.47
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	2	3.41	-1.41
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	2	3.35	-1.35

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The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

The 80s didn't believe in vocal range. It all sounds like the same song over and over.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

<3 this album. Solid reminders of 16 - think this is one of the first "classic rock" albums I ever listened to all the way through. Hymn 43 and Cross-Eyed Mary are bangers.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Very movie background music sounding. (Just realized it's a soundtrack... that makes sense). Reminiscent of some softer Pink Floy. The word hurricane - Opeth-ish bass.

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

While I can appreciate Anthrax's place in the history of metal, I just really dislike speed/trash metal. Lyrically it's big "I'm 14 and this is deep." Like I get what they're saying, but it's as basic and boiled down as possible. And again with the flat vocal style. It all sounds the same.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

I don't get it.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Garbage

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

Old ska? It sounds like the soundtrack to A Goofy Movie.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

It's just so mid and bland. The singing style stays the same, there's no variation. Another blah.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

1/5

Adele

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

I don't like the 80s.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Ok maybe I don't hate all of the 80s. But maybe that's just the nostalgia for road trips with my dad talking. Also the last song on this album was legit.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Still not liking the 80s.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

The 80s legit did not understand that male singers could have vocal range. I don't like it.

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

This is music I would've hated if I'd ever had a boyfriend who listened to it, but then would listen to five years after we broke up.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

I can see why this one is on the list. There's definitely something about the sound that carried through early 2000s alternative.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

I really liked this one, as well as the spotify radio songs that kept playing once the album was finished.

Solid Air

John Martyn

2/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

I like it mostly, especially to start. But it really starts to just feel frantic after a while. I think I like the songs individually, just a one-tempo album to listen through.

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

I don't get this one either. It's screechy and feels very "look at me." Maybe I just don't like music?

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Talvin Singh

2/5

1998 - "the bridge between Indian music and electronica." This is either going to be a banger, or will be sleepy Enya/massage/spa music. It's ok. It's Enya/massage/spa music.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Classic angry 90s girl. It's ok. "You Learn" is the best song on the album.

Let It Be

The Replacements

1/5

1984 doesn't inspire much confidence. We'll see. Ok absolutely the fuck not. Boo.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

TIL Gangster's Paradise was sampled off of Stevie Wonder. Made it through the first disc. It's ok. I get why it's famous and whatnot, but not my style.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

I like it but can only handle so much at one time.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

808 State

2/5

It's fine. It's definitely ahead of its time considering it's from 1989.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Strong start with "Can You Forgive Her?" It sounds like "In the Dark of the Night" from the Anastasia movie, which is a strong compliment in my world. Generally like it, got a little repetitive after the full thing. But worth listening to other stuff by them. Reminiscent of Depeche Mode. And Death Cab for Cutie. Also the soundtrack for the Neverending Story.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

I don't get it :(

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

5/5

I really liked this one. Definitely worth listening to again.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

I liked this one. Reggae but not annoying.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

I really don't like the 80s.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

This is good. It's mellowed-out mariachi music which is much more enjoyable.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

It's ok. Just background noise. Original lo-fi? Would fit in a dark weird edgy bar with some dumb videos playing with no sound.

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

It's a lot like Harry Chapin vocally, but not as good musically. Nothing really stands out as either good or bad. Resounding meh.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Another meh.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

I don't get this one either. It's just obnoxious.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Not really a jazz fan. It's ok. Sounds like jazz. I guess it's good jazz, at least.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

I don't get it. Like truly. It's screechy and weird and unpleasant.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Title track is instant nostalgia to being 20 and working 3rd shift.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

1st track sounds like old Eve 6. I liked it. Kind of mid, but I bet it was awesome and different when it was released.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

Not super into Bollywood, but I can appreciate how theatrical this soundtrack is. I have no idea what this movie is about, but it sounds like it would be an interesting one. I especially enjoyed the random mariachi moment in Countess' Caper.

1989

Taylor Swift

5/5

I'm basic. This is probably the most enjoyable album suggested so far.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

I don't think I've ever been depressed enough, or into drugs enough, to really truly get AIC. That being said, I do like them. Lyrically they're just not super relatable to me. Rooster is such a good song. I used to have a tape that I'd recorded "Would?" off the radio, and every time I hear that song I hear the DJ cutting in over the last few seconds and adding this "Yeah!" at the end of it.

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

It was ok. Pretty standard 70s classic rock. Reminiscent of older Pink Floyd. Probably won't revisit it, but I didn't hate it. I always wonder why it sounds like they recorded the vocals in a tin can.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Why did the bands in the 80s think they could just "sing" monotone through a whole album? It's so boring and uninteresting. Even the instruments are boring and somehow monotone. The last song was the best one; there was no vocals and it sounded like a little jam session. I don't think I like any of the albums where the word "punk" is mentioned in the artist bio. Two stars but only because I can appreciate Bauhaus' effect on music.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Love it.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Absolutely not what I was expecting in a fantastic way. The first track was perfect - it's like Hendrix and Zeppelin and Pink Floyd all got together and made a song. "I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit" is just *chef's kiss*.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

I'm not a jazz person, but it's good jazz. It would benefit being listened to in the right environment; it should be listened to at a fancy dinner, or a smoky bar, or while reading during a snowstorm.

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5