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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rio Duran Duran	5	3.49	+1.51
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	5	3.65	+1.35
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.82	+1.18
Gold Ryan Adams	4	2.84	+1.16
The Stranger Billy Joel	5	3.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.76	-2.76
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	1	3.6	-2.6
Odelay Beck	1	3.46	-2.46
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	1	3.32	-2.32
Made In Japan Deep Purple	1	3.29	-2.29
John Prine John Prine	1	3.22	-2.22
Under Construction Missy Elliott	1	3.14	-2.14
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds	1	3.11	-2.11
Sheet Music 10cc	1	2.96	-1.96
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	1	2.83	-1.83

5-Star Albums (5)

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Third

Soft Machine

1/5

You do a track, and you do a track, and you do a track. Play whatever you want but don’t tell anybody else what you’re doing. We’ll just mash em all together in the end. Ugh.

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1-Star Albums (11)

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Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

It’s like an ogre. Layers I couldn’t hear thru speakers were great in the headphones.

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Some of the songs were rather painful, but the album was saved by the last two, which were excellent. I like me a little jazz in my rock and roll.

Paul Simon

2/5

Not bad, just boring.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

A few moments of interest but on the whole just not my style.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

It was better than I expected, but that wasn’t a high hurdle to clear. Funnier was when The The ended, my streaming service played Talk Talk and served up their five star song, It’s My Life.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Good stuff. I remember when 2014’s Morning Phase came out I listened to it three or four times thinking “hey Beck’s really good” and I should go back and listen to some other stuff. Of course, squirrels and other shiny things, I never did. So I’m glad this album came up in the rotation.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Great stuff, good jams on the third disc and several awesome songs across the first two that still catch the spirit 50 years later.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Although they have some excellent songs (Waiting on a Friend) I’m just not a big fan of the Stones. This album was a reminder of that.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Well I’ll be. I did not know REM took inspiration from Lou Reed/Velvet. On the whole this sounded dated.

Sheet Music

10cc

1/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

The Weight is a great song but the rest of the album kinda bored me

Adele

4/5

Great voice. Some of the songs sound repetitive but then some of it is pure emotional and musical goodness.

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

I never heard of anything by this guy before today. I was very impressed. Is this another case of separating the artist from their art?

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Wow, this was fun!

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

I don’t even have to listen to this one. 6 stars if I could give it.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

Billy Joel is one of my all time favorites. This album is not even in my top 3 from him. And yet, still 5 stars. That’s a whole lot of awesome from one person.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

He probably could have had a lot more hits if they just released more songs.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

I’d like to give half stars, this would get 3.5 from me. This was energetic, tight, fun.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

1/5

Repetitive and uninspiring

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Now that’s music. The voice complements the instruments and the songs are real music. Jazz has soul. Not like today’s garbage where the voice is the whole song supported by a boring braindead note or chord. And going back to Billy Joel who we heard a week ago, one of my favorite songs from The Bridge album, is a duet with Ray called My Baby Grand.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Again with the half stars. 7 out of 10 for this one.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Some good moments but overall just annoying. What’s with the talking and unnecessary noise elements?

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

A few good songs, good production, but some real head scratchers. 6 minutes of silence on the last song??? Not creative, not cool. Simply a waste of my time which ruined an otherwise decent track.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

1/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

1/5

Not my cup of tea

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

I’m not a fan of her voice although in limited quantities with the right song, it works. Some of these songs would be great with another singer. Overall, I really like a lot of the music, especially that instrumental song half way through.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

1/5

It’s just noise.

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

Loretta Lynn

2/5

There’s nothing technically wrong with it, it’s just boring.

Odelay

Beck

1/5

He definitely has different styles across his albums. This style is not one that I like. A lot of it sounds grating, not musical.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Never heard of them before. This was pretty good. 3.5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

For me generally not being a Stones fan, this was decent.

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

You do a track, and you do a track, and you do a track. Play whatever you want but don’t tell anybody else what you’re doing. We’ll just mash em all together in the end. Ugh.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Wow, surprised.

John Prine

1/5

This is not music. It’s stories told with a boring guitar strumming in the background.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Take Five alone is worth giving the whole album a listen.

Queen II