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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.28	+1.72
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.31	+1.69
Beauty And The Beat The Go-Go's	5	3.39	+1.61
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	5	3.4	+1.6
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.55	+1.45
Arise Sepultura	4	2.73	+1.27
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Debut Björk	1	3.37	-2.37
The Specials The Specials	1	3.3	-2.3
Let England Shake PJ Harvey	1	3.15	-2.15
The Contino Sessions Death In Vegas	1	2.91	-1.91
Leftism Leftfield	1	2.91	-1.91
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	2	3.77	-1.77
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	2	3.57	-1.57
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.46	-1.46
Odelay Beck	2	3.46	-1.46
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38

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Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

1st track: Wish it was a bit more sparse. Needs room to breathe Fun piano parts Bit of slide guitar The song about love fading is very sad :'(

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Good bass Cool guitar lines Don't like the singing much

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Loling @ first song much better on the second listen The sound of science was quite good. B-Boy bouillabaisse also good Seems I like the uptempo tracks better than the boom-bap 3.5/5

2112

Rush

3/5

I think the first song is the best bit of the album passage to bangkok definitely a lowlight

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Early thoughts, enjoyed it a lot more than unknown pleasures Very funny lyrics, morrissey singing about how he wishes someone an unhappy birthday is great Bass still very good, but music is less driving than unknown pleasures

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

Not great One song had a Mars Volta type breakdown which was a highlight track for me but the rest very boring. Like if you took Joy Division/The Smiths and made them have less energy and much less to say

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

1/5

Boring. Takes no risks, not a single memorable melody. Boo

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Great. The big song with Kylie Minogue is definitely not the high point. First and second songs are an awesome introduction. O'Malleys Bar is SO GOOD Last song with Kylie Minogue again is not very good. I feel like this is a 4.5 for me but it's definitely not a 5, so just going with the 4.

The Specials

1/5

Pretty bad. The writeup around this album mentions anger at economic conditions and Thatcherite social policy but I'm really not feeling that at all.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Red headed stranger and Bandera are the good songs. This isn't bad. I think maybe it's a 2.5 or 3. Instrumentation is super sparse but the storytelling is good. Apparently was a big deal at the time because all the other country music being made was super produced whereas this stripped everything all the way back. Dunno if it's that interesting to listen to now though. Second reflection: going a 2 because I felt like there were a lot of forgettable songs.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

This is great. Starts with a song you've never heard of, but you've definitely heard a million times. The organ sounds amazing, the band is super tight and the guitar tones are great. At first I wasn't a huge fan of the covers, but on second listen they're actually really good. As good as the covers are, they're outshined by the original songs on here (other than rinky dink which I don't care for).

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

First song is good Fascination is good Feel like the songs are a bit overlong and meander without much purpose

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Smooth operator has a great chorus but the rest is pretty meh background music. Second listen I liked it a bit more but still only a 3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I feel like the mix is really interesting here. The vocals are super far forward but you can still hear the instrumentation. Cohen's voice is super interesting and the poetry is quite good but it doesn't really hit for me. This guy's dying, but I don't know if I can connect with being as world weary as he is

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Arise

Sepultura

4/5

Quite good. More metallica-esque than I thought it would be, cover art is very death metal. One of the songs made me think I was listening to Power Trip

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Pretty fun, not super memorable. 3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Like the way the vocals are recorded. The first few tracks were good, don't like break down much though. Black is the colour... is pretty good

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Smackwater Jack is pretty fun Feel the Earth Move and Natural Woman are great songs not my kind of music usually but 4 stars for me

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Great album. High energy

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Classic album, drags a little in the third quarter but I actually liked it more than I remembered liking it previously. 3.5/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Not feeling it. I see what it's doing but it's not good active listening music, and it's not good background music either. Literally bleeps and bloops

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

ain't no other man is a great song. The rest not so much

1989

Taylor Swift

2/5

All pretty boring. Clean was a good song. Big meh/10

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

The intro of Duet Solo Dancers is sampled in the intro track of Cold World - Dedicated To Babies Who Came Feet First Quite good, not amazing but still great

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Feel like the guy is barely riding the beat, his flow sucks and the beats are boring as hell. Ok, 'To the Moon's Contractor' is pretty cool. PS2 era chillwave Red Eye to Jupiter is also good. Overall bad but not 1/5 worthy

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Some pretty good jams on here! Not something I'm gonna return to but very enjoyable for the time

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Couple of great track, some stinkers.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Couple of good songs, a bit folksy for my taste. Almost cut my hair had a great bluesy edge and awesome overdriven guitar tone

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Enjoyed this a lot. High energy, great vibes, band played their arses off and the crowd were loving it.

Debut

Björk

1/5

Just boring mostly. Not feeling it at all

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Decent, interesting lyrics, not really my kinda music though. I like the beats but they're not standout, just chill, good grooves

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

Liked it, but I think the debut album might be better

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

First Song sounds exactly like start me up by the rolling stones but it came out 10 years before that! Pretty meh, other than that first song I didn't find a lot to be excited about here

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Pretty good, I enjoyed the production and the songs rolled along nicely

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

1/5

Boring af. Absolute yawn fest

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Quite fun, really enjoyed it other than the second song which is a real low point haha. Liked it but don't think I'll come back to it soon

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

This Fiona Apple album has good vibes good vibes and good grooves feels like something my parents would have put on on sunday afternoon at like 5:30 and you listen to it as they cook dinner and the sun goes down

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Pinball wizard pretty good One other track was decent as well The rest was a bit boring and I feel like this is a bit overhyped as some visionary album. Maybe it was visionary at the time?

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Super fun. Really busy but I liked it

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

Actually really liked this!!

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

some good melodies

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Nothing super interesting here, there was one song with some great fuzz guitar leads but nothing that's particularly connecting with me

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Great heavy blues weird southern rock stuff. Honestly I thought they played the same type of music as GnR and was highly surprised by this

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Kind of fun when it has some little freakouts

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

I have rose-coloured glasses for this album because my parents used to play it at home but gee it's pretentious in places. The bonus song with lyrics by Salman Rushdie slayed me

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Really liked it, but the second song could really have done without the vocals haha

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Good background music but didn't have anything to grab me

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Couple of nice little grooves but mostly pretty boring

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

2/5

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

This sucks

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

This was actually phenomenal. So good

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Good fun!

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

This is a vibe. Wish I could give it a 3.5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Great album

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Not crazy, some cool songs but I felt like some of the songs could have been shorter, the grooves they were exploring were just not cool. Other songs they could have extended!

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

Really like how high bass is in the mix. Very reminiscent of the doors IMO. Fun bit with the sax! I like the way it is bluesy but with harder spazzy moments

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

It's like Jet with more pretension and less kick ass It's Ska Jet Real author age/location bias on this one I reckon

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Really enjoyed this, especially the chatting between the musicians before each song. These players are extremely skillful

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Not super memorable. Fun storytelling though

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

I know I'm not wrong is decent Never forget also not bad. But realistically the headline here is how did a band make this album straight after making rumours?? It's REALLY BAD in comparison. Even independently it's not a very good album

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

Pour some sugar on me was good, a couple other fun songs but mostly meh

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

Really enjoying Limelight! YYZ was good too, very math-y at the start of course Tom Sawyer is a great song as well The Camera Eye is fun too Vital Signs also good

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Meh. 2/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Nothing really grabbed me on this one

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

Kinda funky but overall not that exciting