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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ragged Glory Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.15	+1.85
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59
Play Moby	5	3.47	+1.53
Queen II Queen	5	3.49	+1.51
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.74	+1.26
Survivor Destiny's Child	4	2.86	+1.14
Picture Book Simply Red	4	2.88	+1.12

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.32	-2.32
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	2	3.63	-1.63
1999 Prince	2	3.6	-1.6
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters	2	3.55	-1.55
Live! Fela Kuti	2	3.44	-1.44
Diamond Life Sade	2	3.43	-1.43
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
Entertainment Gang Of Four	2	3.25	-1.25

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Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Surprisingly enjoyable grunge album. Not super grungy. Some more classic rock elements and a bit of country influence. Favorite tracks: Mansion on the Hill, Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

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Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Decent album, don't love the vocals. Enjoyed "Where Is My Mind?"

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Incredible album, growing on me over the years. Still don't like Chris Rock's part from blame game. From Devil in a New Dress to Blame Game it's more up and down, with each song having great and ok parts. Favorite Tracks: 1-7, 12

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Easy listening R&B album. 4 long songs is interesting, 45 minute length seemed to go by quickly. Favorite Track: Walk On By

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Calm but somewhat anxious sound, can be a bit boring but is mostly enjoyable. Favorite tracks: Everything In It’s Right Place, Idioteque

Play

Moby

5/5

Tons of variety and very cool sounds. It took me a while to realize it was dance music, some songs I still don't really fit the genre but in a good way. Feels ethereal at times, and very grounded at others. Great instrumentals mixed between songs. B side (starting with Flower) is a bit weaker, but still enjoyable. Favorite tracks: Porcelain, South Side, Run On, Inside

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Fine bluesy jazz album. Not my favorite genre. Every song is good but sounds more or less the same.

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Pretty typical smooth jazz to me. Nothing too stand out, but not much to criticize. Not my style. Favorite track: Smooth Operator

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Pretty standard grunge/punk album. Don't love it or hate it. First time listening to Courtney Love, maybe knowing more about her would improve the experience. Favorite Track: Doll Parts

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Pretty interesting alt rock album. Bjork’s band before her solo career, my first time listening to her. Good instrumentals, interesting singing but mostly nothing lyrics. Favorite track: Blue Eyed Pop

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Bit pretentious to call yourself a genius in your own album, but I respect it. First half is big band music, second half is orchestral. Music was kind of boring to me, but he has a great voice and the album is well composed. Favorite Track: Alexander's Ragtime Band

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Good album start to finish. Title track still stands far above the rest Favorite track: Hotel California

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

This sounds familiar musically, but I've never listened to music quite like this. I wouldn't want to frequently but it was pretty interesting. It's like orchestral pop, and reminds me of Frank Sinatra. I guess it's mostly covers of songs I haven't heard. Favorite track: Black Sheep Boy

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Good most of the way through, some really annoying squeaky bits though that bring it down a lot (tracks 7, 10, 11). Sounds like a 2010s alternative album at times, so I guess ahead of it's time. Favorite track: Sunday Morning

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

Nice funky soul album. Favorite track: Sad Old Red

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Good live album Favorite Tracks: Amazing Journey, Summertime Blues, My Generation

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Mostly instrumental jazz live. Longs songs.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Pretty good pop/R&B album. Not much lyrical content through most of the album. Great vocals. Favorite track: Apple Pie À La Mode

Queen II

Queen

5/5

Awesome heavy Queen album. 2 sides, for the white queen and the black. Favorite Track: March of the Black Queen

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Surprisingly enjoyable grunge album. Not super grungy. Some more classic rock elements and a bit of country influence. Favorite tracks: Mansion on the Hill, Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Don't like this one much. Very braggadocios and full of not very creative sexual humor, prominent in most songs. Decent beats though.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Fun funky R&B album. Not too busy, good sounds. Favorite tracks: Summer Breeze, That Lady

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Relaxing singer/songwriter type folk album. Nice string instrumentation but songs blend together a bit. Favorite track: Time Has Told Me, ' Cello Song

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Really enjoyed this album. Wide variety of musical style. Mostly fun and relaxing, not too serious but not obnoxious. Favorite track: King's Lead Hat, Backwater

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Decent bluesy country rock. Favorite Track: Bad Moon Rising

1999

Prince

2/5

The Cars

3/5

Standard classic rock album that was good enough to live on but isn’t all that special. Favorite track: Just What I Needed

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Good album with laid back beats, flow and lyrics. Decently funny skits. Even fairly classy by gangster rap standards. Favorite tracks: G Funk Intro, Gz and Hustlas

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Really great, wistful album. Fun rhythm and vocals, unique and lyrics with substance. Favorite tracks: Graceland, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, You Can Call Me Al

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Hit or miss rock album with some bluesy tracks and others with pop elements. The poppy ones are enjoyable. Favorite tracks: Peace Frog, Land Ho!

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Hit or miss rock album with some bluesy tracks and others with pop elements. The poppy ones are enjoyable. Favorite tracks: Peace Frog, Land Ho!

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Very smooth instrumental jazz. Relaxing. Favorite Track: Back at the Chicken Shack

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Probably the darkest album I know. Impressive that m&m can stay as lighthearted as he does throughout it. The stuff he raps about it shocking, twisted, and evil, and he makes it believable, but when you step out of the moment it is obviously detached from reality. It is an exploration into the depth of what human thought is capable of, built off of the demons that Em must have been battling (or just accepting) in reality. Beats, rhymes, production, and flow are great. Favorite Track: Stan, The Real Slim Shady, I'm Back

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Nice reggae album, although some tracks are repetitive. Favorite track: Marcus Garvey

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Fantastic album. I particularly like the creative writing throughout many songs. Favorite Tracks: Here Comes The Sun, Octopus's Garden, You're Gonna Carry That Weight

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Easy listening singer-songwriter album. Favorite Tracks: Wild World, Longer Boats, Father And Son

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

This album feels mostly instrumental even though only 2 songs are without lyrics. I think it sounds unfinished, it is enjoyable moment to moment but doesn't feel like a finished album.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Listening to an entire Beastie Boys album is a bit exhausting because their singing/rapping all sounds very similar (like shouting). There is a good variety of samples/beats on the album, and most songs are enjoyable enough on their own but it gets old. Favorite track: Shake Your Rump

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

2/5

Lot of noise but not enjoying it very much. First time intentionally listening to post-punk, but not a big fan so far. I'm sure he's saying things but it all sounds kinda like nonsense. Favorite Track: I Found That Essence Rare

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Very solid modern rock album. Evidently Coldplay's early music was pretty influential, because every alt rock band in the 2000s/2010s was emulating these vibes. The slower songs stand out as the most unique and hard to reproduce. Favorite Track: The Scientist, Green Eyes

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Slow classy jazz that spotlights vocals and piano, which are both great. Tasteful incorporation of other instruments on some songs. Favorite Track: Either Way I Lose, Lilac Wine

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Fun upbeat old school Johnny B. Goode type songs, but live recordings aren’t my favorite. Favorite track: Great Balls of Fire

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Songs are a bit long but very enjoyable Favorite Track: Golden Years