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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	5	2.86	+2.14
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71
Debut Björk	5	3.37	+1.63
Morrison Hotel The Doors	5	3.59	+1.41
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	4	2.69	+1.31
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	4	2.7	+1.3
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	4	2.88	+1.12
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	4	2.89	+1.11
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	3	1.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs In The Key Of Life Stevie Wonder	2	4.07	-2.07
Hunky Dory David Bowie	2	4	-2
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.49	-1.49
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Frank Amy Winehouse	2	3.45	-1.45
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	2	3.42	-1.42
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.35	-1.35
The White Album Beatles	3	4.18	-1.18

5-Star Albums (6)

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Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

3/5

If you wanted a post-kroutrock, not quite industrial avante garde german album - this is for you! Otherwise, it sounds like someone's art project in sound. It was interesting enough, but I can't imagine someone saying oh I need to add this to my regular music rotation.

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4-Star Albums (25)

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Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

A little overrated - there are some weak songs.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Definitely outside of what I would normally listen to. I didn't even know who Lauryn Hill was. I liked it though - kind of a down tempo R&B album with rap and soul singers.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

Pretty run of the mill late 70s R&B

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

Seems odd to pick an album from an artist way past his prime, and singing songs that aren't really like anything they would have normally done themselves.

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

definitely my type of music

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

The xx

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Tracy Chapman

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

I feel like there should only be one Nirvana album on this list, In Utero isn't that good, you only really 'need' Nevermind.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

4/5

Pretty unique, I doubt I ever would have paid any attention to Ian Dury if it weren't for this list.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

In general I haven't been too impressed with the David Bowie singles that I've heard and could never figure out what the big deal was, but this album was pretty good.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Possibly the best industrial album. I of course thought it was sort of a rebel album, but now that I read Al Jourgensen was pushing the NWOs death jab, I realize that it was a promotion album for the NWO - perhaps even sort of a ritual to bring it into affect, since this title comes from the works of Aleister Crowley. I mean, satanism is so cool, right? Regardless, it's still a good listen.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Blondie is right up my alley, and I guess this was their album that brought them mainstream success.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Probably, both The Police's and Sting's best album.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

I don't think live albums should be on a must listen to list - oh well.

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

30th year anniversary edition is on spotify

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

I don't really think a cover album should be on this list. Also, I'd rather just listen to the original songs.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Why are there so many albums not from the prime of the artist's career in this list? The first song is experimental crap - made for his own liking. He called it the star symbol - I guess it's supposed to be the song 'blackstar', which probably has Luciferian or Satanic undertones, because it would be too much to ask pop stars to not be into that. Apparently, the rest of the album is going to sound like experimental crap, too. It gets a little better with the 3rd and 4th songs.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Well, this was already a 5 star album to me. I had high hopes for this band, but they haven't been super productive as Karen O I think wanted more of a solo career. At any rate, I hope they give us more.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

I was expecting to not like it, as I'm not really a folk-rock kind of guy, but I do like down-tempo/ambient/trippy music which he seems to mix with folk-rock here. So, I ended up liking it.

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

I like punk/post-punk/new-wave/goth/etc music and so this is right up my alley - that said, the first almost half of the album is way better than the second half. It started to seem a bit repetitive. I think maybe it just goes on too long, and they should have refined it a bit more.

Born To Be With You

Dion

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

I wasn't really expecting to like this, 70s R&B is definitely not my thing, but I dug it anyways.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

This album definitely has some cool sounds, but even though they call it 'break beat', I consider it an offshoot of techno - and like techno, it's overly repetitive.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

2/5

sorry, kind of lame - definitely not as good as low

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

not bad, not great

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Solid album, for me a greatest hits is probably better for me with a band like this. But I think if I were more of a fan of the Beach Boys that this album would really stand out.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

It's hard to believe people really like this kind of 'singing'. I get the music though. Like too many rock and pop bands though - way too comfortable with satanic and Luciferian stuff.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

a bunch of skips for me, and i sit through a lot...

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

What's with the goofy intros. And what a surprise a 'pop/r&b' album from the 2010s that I dont like. 2010s luciferian r&b is way worse than 90s gansta rap.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Good 1970s era classic folk rock, and I'm not really a general fan of folk rock. This is actually pretty great. Gonna have to give it some more serious listening.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

I of course love the doors, and this is one of the best.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

More tiresome techno, although i guess it's techniquely 'drums n bass' as he uses some different sounds on his computer than pure techno...". Overly repetitive, too long, could really use some vocals to keep up some interest. It could almost pass as ok chill music, but the drumns n bass aren't really chill.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

5/5

An odd choice, seems like a deep cut - finding an album from very late in her career. Seems like an early album from her hay day in the 70s or 80s should have been included instead, but I really like it. Furthermore, I'm not really a country fan. This sounds more like it could be on an alternative rock list - though it is still quite folksy, and not very country in my estimation.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

3/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

The Clash

4/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

I liked it a lot, but I wish it was a bit less quirky.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Oh come on now, we all David Bowie is not really dead, and he's off in some underground city with the real Paul McCartney... In all seriousness, I thought it was pretty good.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

Seems like run of the mill early 70s folk rock to me - not sure why I really needed to hear it, but it's fine for what it is.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

The perfect quintessential grunge album. This deserves all its accolades and is head and shoulders above the other Nirvana albums. The backgrounds of these guys though is a bit suspicious - especially Dave Grohl.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

As a punk rocker, I think I'm supposed to hate progressive or adult oriented rock, but I like a fair amount of it anyway.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

5/5

Really good, and I'd like to check out more Soft Boys. I never heard of them before. The version on spotify is 40 song long. Why can't I just have the 10 track release as original, instead of every ultra low fi recording they could dig up to put on this special variant.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

I was never happy with the way 'alternative' rock evolved in the coldplay/radiohead/muse way - yes I associate the 3 bands very much with each other. And judging from the state of alternative rock and rock in general I think my feeling must be widely shared.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Not what I usually listen to, but I definitely appreciated this neovo tango music.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

It's almost like some modern indie-bedroom music only produced in a studio with probably session musicians., Sparse, lowfi, and mumbly! Oh yeah, sure don't want any energy or any emotion other than resignation.

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

2/5

mid 70s upbeat r&b - just not my thing

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

like the voice, but early on too sparse and reptitions on the music. I might be more in the mood for this some other time, but I dont really like the overly sparse non-energetic droning.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

At first I thought this sounded too much like the 70s music I hate (like the Carpenters), but it wasn't exactly that and I did like some of the tracks. Still could have used a little more energy though.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Never really saw the appeal. Never liked the singing, still don't. The music is good though.

Debut

Björk

5/5

Already a favorite, probably my favorite Bjork or Suguarcubes album, and I believe Violently Happy is very under appreciated.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Arcade Fire was on my listen to more thoroughly list anyway, so if this is regarded as one of their better albums it's a good recommendation I think.