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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aja Steely Dan	5	3.46	+1.54
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.53	+1.47
Rings Around The World Super Furry Animals	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Illmatic Nas	1	3.61	-2.61
Tical Method Man	1	2.94	-1.94
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.56	-1.56
The Clash The Clash	2	3.54	-1.54
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
Peter Gabriel 3 Peter Gabriel	2	3.29	-1.29
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	2	3.2	-1.2

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Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

From track one I hated it. From track three I thought, hang on, there is something very interesting in here. From track six I was exhausted and over it. I'd probably enjoy it played live, though.

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Pulp

2/5

So English. Listen with a pint of bitter in your hand. How is this not Damon Albarn?

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Well, I know this. Side B is better, because Side A is silly. Too much McCartney. What they did with the studio is still pretty amazing.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

They have a formula. It works but by the end of the album it gets a bit annoying. The DJ is a bit dated but honestly it's some good high-energy moping.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Remember Britpop? Remember when that was a thing? At least, unlike Oasis, these guys are really bouncy and energetic. It sounds like they were really happy to record this album. But I don't see what's particularly notable about this one.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

It's so great to hear that not everyone in the late 60's was writing their music while high on acid. The chords in Bridge Over Troubled Water cement Paul Simon as a master songwriter, and so many songs on this one take the folk vibe in unexpected directions. Garfunkel is a real crooner, but despite his vocal acrobatics it's easy to hear why his career faltered without Simon writing the songs with him.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

It opens with a terrible track, in the same way that Bob Dylan opens Blond on Blond with the horrible song "Rainy Day Women". Then it gets better. The band is amazing, and Kendrick's rap is thoughtful and detailed, but I need to read like dozens of books to understand a lot of the things he's talking about. But that's a me problem, not his.

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Smooth. Sounds like money. Expensive studio, expensive band, expensive instruments, expensive drugs (so much cocaine!)

The Clash

2/5

What if you booked a recording studio and played bad? The innovation of punk rock.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

I'd give it six stars, if possible. Such incredible music and such evocative but weird lyrics. The band has the perfect mix of practiced precision and sloppy rock vibes.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

From track one I hated it. From track three I thought, hang on, there is something very interesting in here. From track six I was exhausted and over it. I'd probably enjoy it played live, though.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Here we are at the birth of rap, the ultimate black American art form of this period, and we're listening to three white boys rap about partying.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

I don't mind country music but I was just bored.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

I had fun. The vocalist got progressively more angry and the organist played his favorite Doors riffs. Good bass, too.