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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.93	+2.07
Kimono My House Sparks	5	3.06	+1.94
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	5	3.23	+1.77
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	5	3.4	+1.6
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.42	+1.58
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
Talking Book Stevie Wonder	5	3.72	+1.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
G. Love And Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce	1	2.74	-1.74
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	2	3.4	-1.4
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	2	3.39	-1.39
Either Or Elliott Smith	2	3.38	-1.38
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield	2	3.1	-1.1
White Ladder David Gray	2	3.07	-1.07

5-Star Albums (9)

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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Fela kuti + ar Kane + pixies played by theatre kids suprisingly tiring listen

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Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Enjoyable post punk revival with more 60s/70s influence than expected I liked it a bit but it was quite repetitive

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Probably one of the three best albums of the 2010s decade

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Not quite bitches brew but a very clear artistic progression, very good

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Great

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

The chronic 2 high highes but gets boring too fast

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

was going to give this three but compared to the other album with that score this has a lot less hits and a lot more misses, green onions the song is obviously a classic but other than that this is fairly boring if pleasant background music

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

I enjoyed this more than I expected to maybe a few too many filler tracks near the end but that’s to be expected for a 60 minute + album

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Probably the first truly great rap album a bit front loaded but really good

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

Didn’t expect to think this but honestly one of the best catchiest smartest pop albums I’ve ever heard

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Expected to hate it didn’t it was ok

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

Love this one great songs throughout I love the subtle irony that seams so ahead of it’s time for a 1969 release

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Some great hits Bobby McGee obviously but too many samey sounding blues and soul tracks without any song attached

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

Fela kuti + ar Kane + pixies played by theatre kids suprisingly tiring listen

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Not my shit tbh but I didn’t find this enjoyable to listen to and unlike other thrash bands it didn’t have any hooks

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

He’s a great songwriter but this album was a bit long and drab some great songs tho

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

About as close to a 5 star as a 4 can get idk it’s so close but it just is too flawed but what’s good there is so great satellite of love might be the best think Lou ever did

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Kinda cheating cos I honestly couldn’t Finnish this perhaps the biggest slog I’ve listened to (laylas great tho)

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Solid not always my cup of tea tho

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Really enjoyed this I’m a sucker for psychedelic country

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

3/5

Idk what to make of this ima give it 3 but I’m not sure why exactly

Kimono My House

Sparks

5/5

This one is just brazy song after song is a classic and that one two intro punch is unfathmobauly good

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Vaguely pleasant but if didn’t have many actual songs

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

5/5 first half 4/5 second half idk it’s good tho

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

2/5

Really disliked this album despite the good singer first song was good tjo

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Amazing first half but drags a little later on still very important as the advent of American indie rock

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Probably inspired a million garage bands to make heavier rawer better music but this album is fairly repetitive

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

Fuck this album boring vanilla ice rapping over pseudo blues bull shit

Fred Neil

3/5

I liked this but I didn’t love his voice tbh

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Found this really uninspiring background music for the most part

Ramones

4/5

Certainly doesn’t bore me

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Perhaps the most boring album yet

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Enjoyable country rock but not quite as good as the band or burritos

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

Strong 3 for the really good tracks but this kind of falls into the dance music groove and works more as background music to my brain

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Maybe not the outright classic I hoped for this didn’t fall into any of the prog art rock pit falls I feared it would

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

extra star because I couldn’t Finnish this so can judge it propperly but damn this was boring

1999

Prince

4/5

Knowing what he’d go on to do I can’t rate this 5 but god damn this is a superb collection of songs specially the one two punch of the opening tracks

I See You

The xx

3/5

Didn’t really find this interesting some vaguely pleasant stuff tho

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

This was really fun don’t know how much I’ll return to it but I love that kind of warped classic rock feel almost sounded like a modern band playing classic rock bjm style

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

Boozy glory that classic replacements esque were drunk as fuck playing songs we wrote on the spot but still the best music you’ll ever here

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

I enjoyed this a decent amount it got my mum nostalgic so I’ll give it 4 stars for her sake

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Cracking soul

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Honestly very bland Beatles aping pop maybe worth it for a few tracks but this is way to damn long

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Pleasant jazzy blues rock doesn’t blow minds

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Honestly enjoyed this partially due to the dated 80s production hopefully will listen to more cohen

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

Like if guided by voices had copied and pasted all their songs and had no artistic depth, that’s unfair I liked bits and bobs but god damn was this very short album a chore last songs nice

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

This was joyous and brilliant will listen to again for sure

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Didn’t really blow me away but found it farely pleasant she’s a great singer and good rapper