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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Gris Gris Dr. John	5	2.88	+2.12
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	5	3	+2
Dirty Sonic Youth	5	3.11	+1.89
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.2	+1.8
Me Against The World 2Pac	5	3.25	+1.75
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	5	3.4	+1.6
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Safe As Milk Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	3.01	-2.01
(What's The Story) Morning Glory Oasis	2	3.84	-1.84
Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan	2	3.72	-1.72
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.64	-1.64
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	2	3.6	-1.6
Funeral Arcade Fire	2	3.56	-1.56
New Forms Roni Size	1	2.53	-1.53
We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers Of Invention	1	2.46	-1.46
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.44	-1.44

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Artist	Albums	Average
Stevie Wonder	2	5
Fela Kuti	2	5

5-Star Albums (36)

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Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Essential in every way. Sly belongs on the Mt Rushmore of funk

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1-Star Albums (3)

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Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

This was a relisten. Still great lyrically and production-wise, but man the skits are a lot.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Great album. Still like Love Below more, butSpeakerboxxx is so solid

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

More than Hallelujah plus more songs. Echoes of anthemic U2 and early Pearl Jam. Definite 90s production sensibilities though

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

think this where the Chili Peppers started the slide into dad rock/adult contemporary. The funky song to ballad ratio is off compared to other albums, like they fell into the Under the Bridge aesthetic. The singles are damn catchy though. And I recognize that we all mellow as we age; God knows I have. But this is not the dangerous Peppers of earlier days

The Cars

5/5

Great all the way through. Still rocks. Could easily be a greatest hits album.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Great pop music. Very atmospheric. Better than expected.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

How can the singles be so good and the rest of the album so terrible?

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

I still think this was the last great Aerosmith album. Wore out the tape in 1989. Still rocks. That said, some of these songs, despite being deeply embedded in my memories, are skippable. I think that Aerosmith at their best is sleazy and cheesy. And very self-aware.

Black Sabbath

5/5

So heavy and bluesy and dark. Also so much space in the mix. I love Sabbath.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Stevie Wonder owned the 70s. This is exhibit A

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

I feel like Stan Gets drove the popularity of samba almost singlehandedly. This was pleasant, non threatening. Not experimental jazz, something that has a time and place in the early 60s. I think Gilberto/Getz is better though

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Four stars only because I know Daydream Nation is the next album they made

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Surprisingly better than I remembered. And I heard this album a LOT when it came out. I have a lot of sympathy for Courtney. She got a bad rap for so many reasons, this albums sheen and popiness included. I appreciate what they were found a lot more now looking back.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Compton's in the house! I think many of today's listeners maybe forget that it's supposed to be offensive. This is music to make your parents furious.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Classic and vital in every way. This album made the 90s possible.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

I like it, but it's not unforgettable

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

Too British? Not sure why this didn't click for me

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

Another selection of pre-grunge alternative weirdness. I love this album and have since it came out.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Ultimate driving music for chooglin' down the highway

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Weird and wonderful as usual for the Talking Heads

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Repetitive, but I think that's kind of the point. I see the cues from classical a bit as far as setting a theme forth and developing it. Lush 3-1 still a banger.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Good Tribe album. A little silly in spots, and not as good as Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders, but a good listen.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

This is not for me. Maybe you had to be there?

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Very 90s, but there are other bands I would rather listen to

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

I didn't get this album when it came out. I knew it was genius, but didn't understand why. Looking back decades later, it's influence on music after it is obvious and huge. I still don't get it though. I always liked Amnesiac and OK Computer more.

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Is the Who cheesy? I don't think they aged as well as some. For such a loud band, they have a lot of acoustic

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

4/5

I liked it, this is the first album I had no context for. Different but had a great sound

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Fun and rocking time. Jeff Beck makes this a great album and it makes me want to lisren to more from him. Of the 3 Yardbird guitarists, I am least familiar with his work.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

The longer this album went on, the less I liked it. Rock moved so fast that he was really left behind I guess. Like he skipped the dad rock phase of his career. Poor Elvis. I did like the band though as well as Suspicious Minds of course.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Love reggae, love Bob Marley. This is classic

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

2/5

Not crazy about this. Starting to think I just don't like techno

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

This one rocked. Girl pink from the early days, loved the instrumentation and the kick ass attitude. Glad to have discovered it!

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Not as good in retrospect as some of the other return to rock of the early 2000s. Not the Strokes or White Stripes, but akin to maybe Jet?

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Jazzier than expected

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Inoffensive.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

When's they're good, it's SO good. When they are overly sappy, they are still ok.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Defiantly cheerful and sunny. Early 80s UK must have been a strange place

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

I have always meant to check out Mercury Rev. They were known for making strange noises, but I was surprised how melodic they actually were. Very cheerful psychedelic. Maybe somewhere on the spectrum of the Flaming Lips and the Polyphonic Spree. Very interesting, and not what I expected

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Bored, but not hatred

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

I think people either love Bowie or don't get it. I get it. This is awesome, including the more ambient soundscape stuff. Very 70s Bowie

Me Against The World

2Pac

5/5

I don't think I can separate this objectively from the time in my life when I listened to it originally. Such a great album

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Classic in every way. Maybe the strings were a little overdone on There's A World and A Man Needs A Maid, but I can forgive the indulgence. Hard to be objective when it's been in my listening rotation 30+ years.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Essential in every way. Sly belongs on the Mt Rushmore of funk

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

This was a fun surprise. Had no familiarity with it, but this was a cool blend of retro music with electronic beats.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

No surprise here; I still love this album. Has held up better than a lot of 90s music to my ears

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

More frantic than Tim, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I appreciate the Replacements more as I've gotten older

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Important and genius.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

I was 10 when this came out. This was the album that got me into Metallica

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

5/5

Of course

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Good loud dumb rock and roll

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

My favorite Doors album

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Not bad, kind of a Burt Bacharach feel to some of it maybe?

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Just wow. This was the album of his I was least familiar with from this era. Very thoughtful and shows true evolution. And still quite funky

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

This one is already heard a thousand times. Rock 101.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

Starting to think I don't like techno or EDM. People say Brown Paper Bag was the best track and it was initially interesting but went on a long time without doing anything else to develop. And it has no soul or funkiness. Chalk this one up as British in a bad way.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Surprisingly nice.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf