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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.14	+1.86
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.29	+1.71
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	5	3.29	+1.71
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.72	+1.28
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.76	+1.24
American Idiot Green Day	5	3.77	+1.23
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.85	+1.15
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	5	3.86	+1.14
Who's Next The Who	5	3.9	+1.1
The Doors The Doors	5	3.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian	1	3.18	-2.18
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	1	3.14	-2.14
Close To You Carpenters	1	3.12	-2.12
NEU! 75 Neu!	1	3.09	-2.09
Architecture And Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	1	3.06	-2.06
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Bill Callahan	1	3.02	-2.02
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.97	-1.97
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.67	-1.67
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	1	2.6	-1.6
Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths	2	3.44	-1.44

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (10)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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Gang Of Four · 1 likes

2/5

Probably forgot that I listened to it in about a week.

1-Star Albums (9)

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Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Pretty decent old school hip hop. I did not regret listening to it. But, also nothing super remarkable.

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

Great listen! Went through it twice. Lots of classic hits in this one.

Close To You

Carpenters

1/5

Very talented musicians, well known songs, but very boring. I struggled to make it all the way though.

Pretenders

3/5

Great 80’s album. A couple of hits hidden in there. Outside of that, many of the songs start sounding the same.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Not very lengthy album which makes it perfect for about 45 minutes of soul/funk music. Meaty tracks that make you remember Isaac more for his music than his beliefs. “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” is a story that hurts the heart.

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

Good, easy folk album to put on during a sunny day. A pleasant listen. I’m rating it a 3 only because if it was in my collection, it wouldn’t get much rotation.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

Classic Bob Dylan. Just a man, his guitar, harmonica and poetry. This album made me feel like I was in a smokey coffee shop in Greenwich Village in the 60’s. Great listen!

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

Just not my flavor. To me, sounds like a cheaper version of her brother’s music.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

I loved this album when it first came out and I’m glad to have it reintroduced to me years after the last time I gave it an entire listen. Jack White’s crunchy guitar licks are the stuff of legends!

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Good listen

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

1/5

Not an album I would’ve listened to on my own, and one I’ll probably never listen to again. Sounded like it could’ve been in the background of a John Hughes movie set in a high school in Anytown, Illinois.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

I’m gonna stop the debate right now. This dude can see!

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

For me, listening to this album is like catch up with an old friend over some beers. Such great tunes from top to bottom. Roger, Pete, John and Keith are expert musicians that compliment each other. Try to isolate every individual musician for a song or two. I could listen to this one every day. I’d give it 6 stars if I could. Definitely one of my “stuck on a desert island” albums.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

One of the most boring albums I’ve ever listened to. If I had paid money for this, I would be very upset. Total snooze-fest all around.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Repetitive lyrics killed this album for me. Made it feel “mailed in”. Could have some potential. It had decent production quality. Just subpar song lyrics.

Paul Simon

4/5

Paul just isn’t the same without Art. “Me and Julio” is a great song, all the other songs have their own identity, which is refreshing. I liked it. But didn’t love it.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

I’ll be brutally honest. I hated every second. So much wasted potential with the talent of the artists. I don’t know if they just didn’t care, or too many drugs. Incoherent.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic Rolling Stones album. Solid tracks all the way though.

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

1/5

Nah. Not for me. I’ll forget about it a week from now.

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Listen to Green Day mature since Dookie to this album is like seeing your drug dealer buddy who’s all grown up with a house, family and job. I’ve always liked this album. Great to be reintroduced to it again. Still love it.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

2/5

Probably forgot that I listened to it in about a week.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Culturally, one of the most important albums of a generation.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great listen. The Stones versatility really shine here.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

The cover of “Sweet Thing” was absolutely worth the listen. The rest is ok.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

5/5

Great collection of songs that are absolute classics. Not much more you could ask for in a single release. These songs defined a decade.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

1/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Seems like they had a great time recording this album. I had never listened to it all the way through before. Sorry that I hadn’t.

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

It’s exactly what I thought a Steely Dan album would sound like. Jazz music meant to bang to.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Great slow blues. Not my favorite John Lee Hooker songs. Something about it just didn’t take it to that next level for me.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Everything you could want from The Rolling Stones. Classic sound. Classic songs.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

Just bored me after the first track. I respect the talent, but doesn’t make me want to listen to it more than once.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

I’m glad I had a chance to experience it. But…I wouldn’t do it again or tell anyone about it.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

Not my genre at all. Starts off with a line that aged like milk…”you don’t see Bill Gates and Donald Trump arguing, cause they both got paper!” Definitely an album that doesn’t age well. Decent sounds though.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Nobody plays the blues like “The King”. I had a good time listening to this while at the gym. Solid sounds for an old live album. The man is a legend for a reason.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

I can now say that I gave ‘The Smiths’ a fair try. Not my flavor.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

1/5

I did not like it. Lyrics were gibberish.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

I’m glad I’ve been introduced to this album and gotten more exposure to Sam Cooke. Great listen!!

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

I wants to hate everything about this…but I found out it wasn’t completely trash. My most surprising 2 star rating so far!

Femi Kuti

2/5

Not my type of music.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

3/5

I dig the vibe.

Stephen Stills

4/5

I enjoyed this a lot. Great listen and a great artist.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Solid 80’s rock, if that’s your jam.

NEU! 75

Neu!

1/5

YAWN!

The Doors

5/5

Classic songs from top to bottom. Great musical talent and great lyrics. Never disappoints.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

A little too sad for me today.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

Really a struggle for me to get through this one. Not my taste.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Gorillaz

3/5

It was cool.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

I really have to be in a specific setting and mood to listen to an entire Bob Marley album. I think this is a great listen on a sunny day with an umbrella in your drink.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

2/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Faith

George Michael

2/5

There is an appropriately sexy time and place for listening to this album. Unfortunately, that time and place is not riding a city bus from downtown Seattle on the 4th of July. I wasn’t feelin’ it.

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

The Kinks always feel like to me like they make kid’s songs for adults. A fun journey.

G. Love And Special Sauce

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