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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Teen Dream Beach House	5	3.27	+1.73
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.37	+1.63
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	5	3.4	+1.6
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.44	+1.56
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
Guero Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	1	3.49	-2.49
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.65	-1.65
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Butterfly Mariah Carey	1	2.48	-1.48
All Directions The Temptations	2	3.46	-1.46
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.39	-1.39
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	2	3.28	-1.28
Kenya Machito	2	3.27	-1.27
Elvis Is Back Elvis Presley	2	3.19	-1.19

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	4.67
Talking Heads	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

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All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Funky grooves. Vocals weren't my style.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Fever is a heater. Really like guitar part in "It Feels So Right". Rest of the album didn't do much for me.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Groovy and bouncey. Bass and drums really keep things moving. Solid background music

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Great harmonica throughout. Little repetitive at times but that's 60s blues

Teen Dream

Beach House

5/5

Great beginning, slows down near the end but still an all time record

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

Way more bizarre than The Sensual World. Not my cup of tea

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Darkly atmospheric. Rocket's Tail my favorite. Sneaky 80s guitar leads throughout. This Women's Work a banger of an outro

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Cecila Boxer Baby Driver Beginning a little too slow Ending finishes well Weird choice to throw a live song in there

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Much more acoustic than later Talking Heads stuff. Take me to the river stands out as the big banger. Overall cool look into what they would become

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Post-sabbath core. Doesn't have the same punch as Slayer and the guitar isn't as good as Pantera. Teacher's Pet interesting bluesy metal song

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Mdou Moctar adjacent. Love this style of desert blues

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

1/5

Ritzy crooner Ray. Would prefer his more bluesy style. Love songs for old people weddings

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc should have been the opener. Copeland going off. Walking on the Moon a classic as well. Does Everyone State has a real swing/bouncy feel. Album really shows off Copeland's mastery

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

2+2=5. Love the transition between I Will and A Punch Up at a Wedding.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

French orchestral metal. Unique for sure

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Heads Will Roll still slaps. Runaway may be my favorite.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Little too out there for me

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Nothing really stood out. Suppose I'm not much of a Queen fan

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Cliche to say but there's no skips here. Easiest 5/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Hits are solid. Everything else kinda meh

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

Girls and Time are good. Nothing else really stood out

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Child in Time best song. Deep Purple pretty solid 70s rock band

Dire Straits

4/5

Six Blade Knife - Mark waits till the last minute to lay into a jam. Sultans an obvious classic, may be one of the best songs ever written. In the Gallery real groovy that slows chugs along. Wild West End love song.

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My Bloody Valentine

4/5

who sees you - awesome climax. new you - do do doo ending. in another way - chaos. nothing is - even more so.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Honey and My All low key bangers. The Roof (Back In Time) - samples the Shook Ones Pt. 2. Didn't finish

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Classic Kinks. Victoria and Shangri-La stand outs.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

Not my favorite Korn album. Self titled much better. Cleaned up their sound but not as good. Got the Life and Children of the Korn (with Ice Cube!) stand out. All in the Family with Fred Durst is awful. End of the album drags

Beautiful Freak

Eels

4/5

Novocaine for the Soul, Beautiful Freak, My Beloved Monster. Very unique sound. Could have fallen in the 90s alt trap but they kept their sound interesting.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Bahia - Khruangbin could cover this. Overall pretty solid background jazzy bossa nova album.

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Could be the easiest 5 star yet. Aja really the only song I don't love. Deacon, Black Cow, and Peg all bangers. Home At Last probably the best with the slow build into a killer solo. Got the News also pretty forgettable.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Lot of mother/father son songs. So far much better than Sheer Heart Attack. Queen doing standard rock sound instead of operatic Queen.

Violent Femmes

5/5

Love this album. Kiss Off, Add It Up, Promise. Shocked that this came out in 1983. Pioneered an early 90s folk punk.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Lullaby kids music. "Wild World" and "Father and Son" I had heard before. Likely on some movie soundtracks

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Spotify labeled it as trip hop but I don't see it that way.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

4/5

"Hit me with your rhythm stick" guy. Overall real funny and enjoyable

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Definitely ahead of its time. Drums are constantly moving, guitar/keys are very unique.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

4/5

Big U2 influence. Reprise at the end got really spacey.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Tractor tunes

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Cant see why they get so much hype. Not just Song 2 band

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

So ahead of his time. Wille the Pimp and The Gumbo Variations are jams

Stephen Stills

3/5

Love the One You're With, Go Back Home, Black Queen. Especially Black Queen - jammy acoustic tune.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Strangelove a standout. Like the overall vibe but nothing really stands out. A little long as well

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Guero

Beck

5/5

E-Pro, Girl, Go It Alone, Farewell Ride. Beck all over the place on this one - some electronic songs, some dirty acoustic bangers with a harp, crunchy rock songs.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Really liked the piano version of Sympathy. Bluesy Stones

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Sloop John B. Would have preferred to listen on headphones or better speakers

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Didn't really care for his voice. Nothing really stood out.