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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	5	2.88	+2.12
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon	5	2.97	+2.03
evermore Taylor Swift	5	3.03	+1.97
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	5	3.03	+1.97
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	5	3.05	+1.95
Elephant Mountain The Youngbloods	5	3.08	+1.92
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	5	3.11	+1.89
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	5	3.11	+1.89
Stephen Stills Stephen Stills	5	3.18	+1.82
Private Dancer Tina Turner	5	3.3	+1.7

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Next The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	1	2.71	-1.71
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Closer Joy Division	2	3.22	-1.22
Junkyard The Birthday Party	1	2.16	-1.16
NEU! 75 Neu!	2	3.09	-1.09

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Beatles	3	5

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Joanna Newsom

3/5

Incredibly unique. I'll probably need another listen while reading along with the lyrics to fully appreciate it. Orchestral folk, but I like the terms "prog folk" and "freak folk" to describe it. Not my cup o' tea musically, but maybe I'll give it another shot.

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Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

You can tell that he had a lot to get off his chest after leaving the Beatles.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

War

4/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

5/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Felt like they were throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. Some songs sound like the Beach Boys, some like the Doors.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Album full of great soul!

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Most of the record holds its own with Walk on the Wild Side. Very solid album front to back. Lots of interesting music variation. Very Bowie-esque in many ways.

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Shuggie Otis

4/5

Lots of similarity to Stevie Wonder and other 70s R&B with some interesting jazz tunes

Django Django

4/5

Catchy psychedelic modern art rock

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

More gritty and stripped down album of underdogs. I actually kinda liked most of the songs.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Somewhere between Silversun Pickups, Modest Mouse, and Cake

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

So many banger classics. The mix of rage and catchy pop rock is so good.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

I actually liked it! The accent that annoys me on Wonderwall added a lot to this album. Very solid rock album.

evermore

Taylor Swift

5/5

Such a great album. Every song is great and is written like poetry.

Fragile

Yes

5/5

One of the best prog albums ever. My favorite is Heart of the Sunrise.

Pretenders

5/5

So many great ones on here. Surprising use of alternating time signatures and polyrhythm on several songs.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Pop with super dense and complex layering. His vocals are like Broadway meets Thom Yorke.

Blur

2/5

I thought the rest of the album was meh next to Song 2. I'll give them that it's diverse, but I was zoned out for a lot of this.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

5/5

Love this album. There are some super fun songs, mixed with more mellow and reflective tracks.

Kala

M.I.A.

4/5

Interesting and unique intersection of rap with British/Indian culture and female voice.

Stephen Stills

5/5

I thought this would be mostly Americana songs in the vein of Love the One You're With, but it was very eclectic. Some blues, soul, and funk mixed in. And I enjoyed reading about and listening for the other notable musicians who contributed, like Ringo and Hendrix.

S&M

Metallica

3/5

Interesting mix with the orchestra. After a while the same backing phrasing got repetitive and could have been more interesting. Metallica was metallica. Another commenter thought it sounded like Metallica doing a James Bond score: totally agree with that! I had the same thought.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Cmon, this is an easy 5. Every song is strong in its own way and I think having the diversity of three different composers is a major strength.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

Sometimes interesting, but this just isn't my aesthetic.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

5/5

I definitely hear the co.parisons to the Stones, but I enjoyed the more raw edge and rockabilly nature of this. I was tapping my toe to pretty much every track. Sounds like a bunch of guys just playing music they love in a fun way.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Excellent album front to back! Songs were strong on their own, but the arrangements and orchestration brought it up even more!

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Loved listening to this for the first time. Yeeeaahhhh Boyyyy! I didn't realize Flav had so much rapping to himself, I thought he was a hype man before listening to this. Samples were great and funky. Some of the lyrics are just lyrics for lyrics sake and don't hold much, but some are really excellent.

Joanna Newsom

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Never listened to this album fully, but I've heard all but a few of the songs anyway. This makes me wish ai was a little older and could have been a part of the scene at the time instead of learning about it 10 years later.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

1/5

I got part of the way through Gang Bang and started skipping ahead. Grooves were ok, but it wasn't worth it. Was this on the list because of its shock value?

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

1999

Prince

5/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Tour de force from Janis and the band. So many classic from this one. I didn't realize they were all from a single album. I think I got contact high just from listening.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Morr vibe than music. Sounds just like every 90s video game and dance party.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

I'm surprised that the singles come near the end. S&F were never favorites of mine, but Mrs. Robinson was always a classic to me.

The Stone Roses

5/5

This album rocks!

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

Interesting mix of traditional folk and rock folk bordering on Dylan and Janis Joplin rock.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Amazing of course!

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Damn, I never listened to Hole, but of course knew of Courtney. This hits up there with some of the top grunge albums!

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

5 stars duh.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Not my normal cup of tea, but this was delightful.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Adele

5/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Load of great tunes, amazing for a debut album. You can tell they had all this in their repertoire for years before recording. Too bad about the racism.

Risque

CHIC

4/5

I always have a soft spot for good disco.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Bleeding me away that this was all improvised.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

5/5

I really liked this. Beatles-esque 60's pop done by jazz artists with lots of jazzy arrangements, medlies, and interludes.

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

Just not my cup o tea.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Great cohesive album.

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Some cool concepts, but the final 2 or 3 tracks could have been half as long and been better. Other sound scape songs are constantly changing, but these were just repetitive.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

5/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Just great grooves front to back