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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.48	+1.52
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.63	+1.37
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.82	+1.18
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	4	2.84	+1.16
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.78	-1.78
Remedy Basement Jaxx	1	2.68	-1.68
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	2	3.59	-1.59
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	2	3.57	-1.57
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.49	-1.49
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	2	3.44	-1.44
Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson	2	3.43	-1.43
25 Adele	2	3.36	-1.36
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.35	-1.35
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	2	3.33	-1.33

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Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Well, that wasn’t great.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

No need to say anything - 5 mic

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Reminds me why Take Me Out was such a jam, and why we never heard anything else from this album

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

4th best Bowie album. I like Mitsy’s scale, 3.5.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Doesn’t hold up quite as well as I remembered, but it’s still an all time classic. The B side would be perfect if it wasn’t for Baby I’m a Star. 4.6 rounded up.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Brand new to me, I was very non pleasantly surprised. Sounded very modern for 1978. 3.6 rounded up.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Meh, too much disco. Startin Somethin and the title track are certified jams though. 3.4 minus 1 point for being a scumbag. 2.4 rounded down.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

2.5 rounded up. While I do love me some later Stones, this album just doesn’t compare to Blonde on Blonde or Revolver which both came also out in 1966

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

Fun fact, I did a presentation on fascist dictators in Social 30 and played the Cult of Personality music video. I wish the rest of this album was as awesome as the video. I struggled to get through the rest, just not my cup of tea. 2.2 rounded down.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Man, remember when this album came out and everyone thought George W. Bush was the worst president in history? How naive we all were. Very high nostalgia points for this album, it was a frequent repeat on my iPod mini back in grade 10 and it still holds up decently well. 3rd best Green Day album and a solid 4.4 rounded down

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Im a sucker for that Grand ol Opry sound and the Chet Atkins Gretch style guitar playing throughout was a highlight. Otherwise it was a bit of a slog, the gospel harmonies get irritating after a while. 2.4 rounded down. (Still better than that Franz Ferdinand album Longer)

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Well this is easy. Top 25 album of all time - locked in 5.0. Just a nice excuse to listen.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

While it is certainly better than anything they have released in the past 15 years, it’s just ok. I have a soft spot for The Scientist though. A right smack dab in the middle 2.4

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Something I never would’ve considered listening to before this list, I liked it way more than I thought I would. One is a certified jam, some of the other tracks are pretty repetitive and 65 minutes for a 9 track album is waaay too long, but overall a 2.5 rounded up to 3. For sure more open minded to trying out more Metallica than I was a day ago.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Well, until todays wiki read I didn’t know Edwyn Collins did anything besides A Girl Like You which is a jam. This sounds like a high school band trying to do Elvis Costello covers. 1.8 rounded up

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Unquestionable 5.0

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

My weekly capacity to listen to metal is fully tapped out. A generous 1.5.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

If you are going to force me to listen to an hour of a white woman singing mostly black covers her name better be Linda Ronstadt. This, with a few exceptions, just sucked.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Something different and pretty cool - a nice change of piece after that Dusty Springfield album

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

I’m never gonna be a big Zappa fan, but this was weird and wonderful. So all over the place - in a good way. Loved the doo wop and just genuinely enjoyed the whole thing. Can’t wait to a grab copy on vinyl

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Gives you a lot of respect for Lou Reed who had to put up with this in the Velvet Underground. Sounds like a bad Ringo solo album

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Album #3 in possibly the greatest 5 album run in the history of popular music. Just glad it fell on a Friday so I can listen all weekend. 5.0

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Joel gets shit on a lot (and sometimes deservedly so), especially for his 80s period, but the 3 album strech of The Stranger, 52 Street, and a Glass Houses is very hard to beat. This is just a very well crafted pop album. 4 stars.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

While it is a very important Native Tongue adjacent album, it just doesn’t have near the talent or the staying power of anything the Tribe or De La did. Or even Jungle Bros or Digable Planets. Some great golden era hits though. 3.4.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Probably the most important rock album of the aughts. The sound is a bit stale in 2023, (maybe because I’ve heard it so many times) but it’s a modern rock classic. 4.6

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Holy Fuck!! My whole Junior High in one CD, this thing wore out many a Discman. I’m not even going to try and be objective, 6/5. BK! Power in Numbers!!

Adele

2/5

Nobody can deny her talent, but holy moly is she one dimensional. Jesus Christ Adele, we get it, your heart was broken. We don’t need 3 (and now 4) albums on the same topic. So very boring. 2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

The hipster in me wanted to like this more, but I just can’t do a whole 75 minutes of Sufjan. If I’m in the mood I’ll stick to Carrie and Lowell which is a far superior album and about half the length

Traffic

3/5

Steve Winwood opened for a Petty on his last concert in Edmonton and he absolutely crushed it, so I have a soft spot for him. Mits is right though, this is pretty meh. But hey, at least it wasn’t Basement Jaxx!

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Remember that episode of Friends where Ross plays his “sound” on the keyboard and it’s just a bunch of random sound effects? It’s like that, but not funny and way worse. They should have named it 1001 Albums that make you want to die.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

Meh is right.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

If this was album was 3 songs long, it would be a 4, but alas, it isn’t. But this album did remind me to watch the Christopher Walker dance Weapon of Choice music video which was such a treat

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

Ok Mits, it sucked but it wasn’t THAT bad. Kind of a cross between a Mr. Hudson album and a solo 90s Sting. But, it did suck.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

Beats 4/5, flow 1/5, concept 0/5. Let’s average it out at a 2

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

It’s a classic and an esssential listen for any Hip Hop 101. But after a listen it’s noticeable how much better Paul’s Boutique and Check Your Head are, both are locked in 5s. Based solely on hindsight and knowing what’s coming next in their catalogue I’m gonna go 3.4

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

“Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn??”

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Wonderful album, really sets the table for an very underrated strech of Paul Simon solo albums. Interesting Knutson factoid, it contains both of our favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs. Mine being Only Living Boy in New York and BKs being So Long Frank Lloyd Wright for some reason

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Springsteen at his best. My favorite of his and a top 20 album of all time.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Peak Bruce to peak Neil

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

One of moms favorite albums - the songs aren’t anything exceptional but the vibes of the old church and a single Microphone are pretty special. Great CanCon pick