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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Metal Box Public Image Ltd.	5	2.41	+2.59
Third/Sister Lovers Big Star	5	2.79	+2.21
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	5	3.11	+1.89
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.15	+1.85
Liquid Swords GZA	5	3.28	+1.72
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.34	+1.66
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.35	+1.65

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.46	-2.46
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	1	3.43	-2.43
The Nightfly Donald Fagen	1	3.01	-2.01
With The Beatles Beatles	2	3.66	-1.66
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	2	3.64	-1.64
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.46	-1.46
Low-Life New Order	2	3.3	-1.3
Queen Of Denmark John Grant	2	3.13	-1.13

5-Star Albums (23)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

This is wonderful

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1-Star Albums (3)

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A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Eh. An extra star for "All My Loving." I don't think this has aged well outside of Beatles fandom. The covers aren't as good as the originals, and reflect the period in which white artists co-opted songs by artists of color. Also, I understand the history of it, but the left/right separation is truly awful.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Catchy and fun, though a bit same-y.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

This is like a cross between Queen and ABBA, and inferior to both.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Masterpiece.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Excellent blues rock guitar. Most songs would be improved by removing the vocals.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

I haven't listened to electronic music, except for that one Enigma CD that every GenX college student had in their dorm room, but I enjoyed it. To call it "background music" is not an insult. It's a vibe.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

I’m not a jazz guy but this was very fun. He is obviously great! Also we played Watermelon Man in the band and it didn’t sound anything like that.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

Clearly an important early pioneer in acid rock. Groovy and fun.

Liquid Swords

GZA

5/5

A masterpiece.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

The Queen.

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

This is a fantastic record, always inventive even if some parts don't quite work. Overall, very enjoyable with virtuosic music and vocals.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

Live concerts are definitely the best way to listen to Dylan, in my view. His less-than-melodious singing style comes alive in the emotional setting of a concert, and the songs take on a richer, fuller meaning and effect.

Play

Moby

3/5

This one is a classic, though I'm not sure how well it holds up.

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Not having listened, I thought Steely Dan was rock music, and I checked Spotify to make sure I was on the right album. Blech. I kept imagining Ron Burgundy in a velvet leisure suit playing along with his flute.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

very nice finger-style guitar picking, and so-so vocals. I like the song-writing as bridging the folk music revival with the politically-minded music emerging in the late 60s.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected! So chill.

The xx

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Ding, dang, dong, dong, deng, deng, dong, dong, ding, dang

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

I had to skip forward past the first song, Secondhand News. How is that the opener? A couple of the other tracks are also a bit too corny for me, but the bangers on here are great. I didn't know Songbird before, and really liked it.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Lemmy was one of kind, and his band knew exactly who they were and excelled at it. What rock music is more fun than this?

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

5/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Lovely layers.

Adele

4/5

What an amazing voice.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Man, few things take me back to 1989 than this album. The emotion, the melancholy, the synths.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

I mean, what else is there to day. A genius, the og.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Take Five is a classic jam, and the rest of it is also great.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

1/5

I hated the Steely Dan album we had to listen to, and this is only slightly more endurable.

Ramones

5/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

I had only heard the radio hits, but this whole album is great. It's like if U2 had been born in LA.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

The synths are exquisite but the vocals sound like karaoke.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

Eh. It's a great recording, there is no doubt about it, and the musicians are very talented. However, the noodling solos are much too long. I love live music, and recordings of live shows, but this isn't for me.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Perfect.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

4/5

This one was fun, and I would love to have heard this live in 1972. The best part is Chuck Rainey on bass, laying it down! Everything else builds on that.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

3/5

Catchy but I like Hank better.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

I don’t really get this band. I like Nicks’ voice but otherwise this seems like boomer nostalgia.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

This is an amazing album. I haven’t listened to much soul music, being a rock guy mainly, but the soaring instrumentation and sick grooves, with Hayes’ smooth vocals, just damn.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

This is a classic "ride around with your friends and get into some trouble" album for us Gen-Xers.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

5/5

Simply fantastic. So much of the best female country music of the 80s and 90s makes more sense after hearing this. (Modern “country” is not relevant to this discussion.)

Stephen Stills

3/5

Pretty nice. I liked most of the other songs more than the famous sone.

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

5/5

This is another one of those albums that points the way to so many things that happen late. If you only know the bands that became popular later by ripping off Big Star, you are missing a big piece of the puzzle.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

1/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

The Clash

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come