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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sunshine Hit Me The Bees	5	2.99	+2.01
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.5	+1.5
Brothers The Black Keys	5	3.58	+1.42
Ramones Ramones	5	3.58	+1.42
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.63	+1.37
Metallica Metallica	5	3.79	+1.21
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
A Night At The Opera Queen	5	3.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	1	3.16	-2.16
Sheet Music 10cc	1	2.96	-1.96
Leftism Leftfield	1	2.91	-1.91
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	1	2.61	-1.61
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	2	3.53	-1.53
Logical Progression LTJ Bukem	1	2.52	-1.52
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	2	3.31	-1.31
Hysteria Def Leppard	2	3.21	-1.21
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter The Incredible String Band	1	2.15	-1.15
Hejira Joni Mitchell	2	3.13	-1.13

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Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Decent Album, some classic tracks.

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Mid 90’s Brit Rock with some orchestral backup

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Standard Queen

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Classic

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Classic

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Good live album. He made a weird comment about not hitting women in the face. 😂

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Decent album, 80’s rock

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Jazz. Interesting, a little chaotic.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Singer songwriter, multi instrumentalist. Not bad, consistent pace, pretty peaceful.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Classic Marvin Gaye sex music

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Possibly the most 60’s album you will find. Not bad not great.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

80’s hair rock. Not my thing.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Good album. Classic 70’s soul.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Good album

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Early James Brown. Not bad, gives the JB vibe but nothing really iconic on this record.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Not my thing. Weird monotone folk.

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

Cool Album. 70’s r&b and funk designed for a coke party.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Enjoyed it more than I expected to.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Great singer.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

Tried, but couldn’t complete this album. This genre doesn’t interest me.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Decent album.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Cool album. 60’s soul singer

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

5/5

Great album. Chill consistent indie rock. Interesting and enjoyable.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Not bad. Happy and interesting.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Classic, this album is why he’s the King of Pop

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Enjoyable album

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

2/5

Meh…

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Odd album. Started out very stereotypical 60’s acid rock, finished up almost child like, sing-songy.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

A MJ classic.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Easy to listen to. Good, not great.

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Good album, but not their best.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Wtf man. I can definitely find 5000 albums better than this. Painful to sit through.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

It’s fine. There’s a couple good songs, but the album as a whole kinda drags on.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Good Wilco album, not their best.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Great album. Classic Queen

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Classic country meets folk

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Mid 2000’s indie record. Not bad, but was never that big on Arcade Fire personally.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

Cool early punk album.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Great album, possibly the best early 90’s LA album

Elvis Presley

4/5

The hits from the king.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Interesting and a little odd. Van Morrison singing jazz/folk lounge music.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Not bad for country music.

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Early punk from young Iggy

Metallica

5/5

Great album. Peak Metallica.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Interesting album that touches on a few different genres from Brit rock to early punk to pop rock.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Good Radiohead album, not their best, but delivers what you want.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Good background music

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

80 classic

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

1/5

This was difficult. Kind of all over the place, nothing really appealed to me.

Sheet Music

10cc

1/5

Some of these songs sound like they’re a joke band, and some sound like they want to be taken seriously.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Good album if you’re into Elvis

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Decent, but definitely dated. Early 90’s Brit rap.

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Started interesting but got repetitive

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Not great, but interesting enough to keep my attention

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Decent album.

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

Simple Minds

2/5

Not awful, but too blatantly 80’s for me.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Decent Stones album, pretty bluesy.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Decent.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Good Bowie album

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Meh

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Interesting

Yeezus

Kanye West

2/5

Not his best work

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Great Album, but not their best

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

3/5

Interesting album. Worth a listen

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

A blues rock album from a different world. Interesting.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Solid album

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Musically vibrant and interesting. This album really drops you into the setting of his experiences as a young man.

Future Days

Can

2/5

Experimental rock. Not bad, but not something I’d listen to regularly

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Not my style, but good for what it is. Easy to put on in the background.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Classic album

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Great band, Great album. Ohio’s finest!

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Not bad but didn’t grab me. A little monotone.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Pleasant, relaxing music. Some English, mostly Spanish I think.

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

Not my style of music, I couldn’t finish it.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

He’s clearly talented but this album isn’t for me.

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

Interesting album. Early thrash. 28 songs in 33 minutes is a crazy approach.

The Clash

3/5

Good early punk, not their best album though

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

2/5

Didn’t grab me. Feels like early hot chip.

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Dated, but musically interesting enough to sit through. British rap is tough.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

Classic metal album, but not really my style.

Garbage

4/5

Great mid 90’s alt rock album.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

3/5

A nice trip back to my teenage years. Some good tracks but a bit cringey.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Not what I expected. I enjoyed it

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Meh

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Classic

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Good early 2000’s indie album

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Ramones

5/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Not my thing but I didn’t hate it.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

1 undeniable classic song, the rest of the album just feels dated and didn’t do much for me.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5