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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Joan Baez Joan Baez	5	2.97	+2.03
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	5	3.54	+1.46
3 + 3 The Isley Brothers	5	3.59	+1.41
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
With The Beatles Beatles	5	3.66	+1.34
21 Adele	5	3.7	+1.3
American Idiot Green Day	5	3.77	+1.23
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.81	+1.19
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.83	+1.17

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	2	3.94	-1.94
Doolittle Pixies	2	3.74	-1.74
1999 Prince	2	3.6	-1.6
Play Moby	2	3.46	-1.46
Guero Beck	2	3.45	-1.45
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.44	-1.44
C'est Chic CHIC	2	3.34	-1.34
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	2	3.31	-1.31

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

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Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Very chill jazz!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

A classic rock groove. Very easy listening.

Guero

Beck

2/5

Vaguely aggressive and aggressively white.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

Clearly a masterpiece but busy and hard to get into

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Heavy but with surprisingly uplifing female vocals.

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

Driving punk rhythms, deeply grating vocals.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

A classic. Variously ebullient and haunting.

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Hard-hitting

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

Easy listening, occasionally lounging rock.

Rocks

Aerosmith

4/5

Classic rock that rocks

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Garage rock through a dial-up modem.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Raucous Brit punk rock and roll.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Alternatingly grating, smooth, and sinister.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Rocky. Bluesy. Groovy. Has "Wild Horses" on it.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Groovy, easy listening jazz.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Chill, occasionally morose guitar and piano music. A little Cat Stevens-y.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Big beats, occasional rock, poorly aged skits.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

A funky rocky jam session.

Joan Baez

5/5

Folksy guitar-and-vocals covers of classic folk songs.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Classic shredding metal.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Sometimes loungey, sometimes folky singer songwriting. Very easy listening.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Occasionally relaxing, occasionally sinister, always deeply baritone.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

It's Sir Elton! It's got Tiny Dancer! Pretty dang good.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Soulful, some real classics on it, but a little samey by my tastes.

Adele

5/5

Stone cold classic.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Jammy, sleepy, lazy-day-in-the-sun music.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

A bit Beatles-y, a bit punky, and features Under my Thumb. Very solid.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Some fun old school piano rock. A little campy, but not super memorable.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Pretty great 70s piano rock. Some absolute classics on here.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Frankly uncomfortable. Sting should be embarrassed by his fake Jamaican accent.

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Just a classic.

The Stone Roses

5/5

Halfway between REM and The White Album. Definitely worth a re-listen.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Funky R&B journey, including such classics as Summer Breeze. Extremely listenable.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Nice enough but slightly forgettable singer-songwriting.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Absolute classic blues grooves. So many tracks that you didn't know you knew, but you knew.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Extremely listenable, ear wormy jazz.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Brooding, occasionally driving, occasionally dirgey.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Fine but forgettable mid-2000s rock.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Charming midcentury bluegrass.

Adele

4/5

Incredible voice. Some absolute classics. Hello still whips.

Play

Moby

2/5

A variety of different beats and samples, but ultimately pretty forgettable.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Extremely groovy.

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Latin grooves with lots of vibes but a little repetitive.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Some stone cold classics and general jamming throughout.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Guitar-driven African earworms.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

2/5

Easy listening but slightly forgettable tropical music.

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

Early 90s grungey industrial -- not really my jam.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Scathing piano-driven R&B

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Interesting pop concept album with some trippy moments like backwards audio, but not super compelling.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Classic Dylan -- driving, stripped back, groovy.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Disco-tinged aughties indie. Not bad but kind of forgettable.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Extremely listenable ambient electronica.

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

I mean... c'mon.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

1/5

Improvised solo jazz piano. Lord have patience, I couldn't finish this one.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Bratty, grating 90s girl-rock at its finest.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Bob Dylan meets Simon & Garfunkel meets The Beatles. Plus it has Season of the Witch on there. Pretty great.

Bert Jansch

3/5

Okay 60s singer-songwriter stuff.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Both noodley and heavily produced. Probably quite nice but didn't grab me strongly.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Chill disco-tinged 80s rock. A little Pulp, a little classic Bowie.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Opens with Right Here, Right Now which is worth a star itself. The rest is kind of obnoxious beat-driven electronic music.

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Chill, airy alt rock.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Groovy laid-back 60s-style rock and roll, but from 2001!

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

70s hair metal. Halfway between The Stones and GnR, both in style and time period.

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Inoffensive honky tonk country.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Decent 80s girl punk.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Some excellent beats and some lyrics that not aged well at all.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

None of Bowie's super hits, but a very listenable, dark, groovy album

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

80s German industrial experimental noise punk. Lots of banging on scrap metal. Somehow an hour long.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

Excellent beats and rhythms in this Wu-Tang solo outing.

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

It still slaps embarrassingly hard.

1999

Prince

2/5

Upbeat. Funky. Surprisingly electronic. Extremely, occasionally upsettingly, horny.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Damn this is great. Grungey, growly, choral... very cool.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Alright album that mixes New York folk rock, cabaret, and glam. A couple of memorable tracks like Perfect Day, but not all that memorable.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Better than 1999. Groovy in that obnoxious 80s falsetto pop way that I don't particularly care for. Still unpleasantly horny at times.

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Ska-tinged pop punk. The Crazy Taxi soundtrack. They have a lot to answer for in the sound of early 2000s pop punk.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Classic late-80s shredding. Has "One". Pretty dang good album.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Rollicking, warbling, bluegrass-tinged folk

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Moody, glitchy, wailing. VIBES

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Aching, yearning, rocking. Not the greatest Boss record but pretty damn great nonetheless.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Rollicking, funky, rocking. I still don't love the Stones, but you can't argue with Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Some very nice performances of Christmas songs, but not much more

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Excellent mid-century country-rock & roll.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

Interesting but occasionally grating low-fi electronic.

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

Dad used to play this one a lot, so pure nostalgia... "folktronica" that sounds a little Crowded House-y.