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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse Faces	5	3.24	+1.76
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.32	+1.68
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
The Band The Band	5	3.37	+1.63
At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band	5	3.38	+1.62
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Undertones The Undertones	1	3.26	-2.26
Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers	1	3.15	-2.15
The Lexicon Of Love ABC	1	3.08	-2.08
Quiet Life Japan	1	2.85	-1.85
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	1	2.77	-1.77
Take Me Apart Kelela	1	2.75	-1.75
Violator Depeche Mode	2	3.7	-1.7
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2	3.44	-1.44
Sulk The Associates	1	2.36	-1.36
American Pie Don McLean	2	3.28	-1.28

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

5-Star Albums (26)

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A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Popular Reviews

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Funky, joyful, political.

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1-Star Albums (7)

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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Groovy album. Folk, psychedelic rock, blues, and Grace Slick’s outstanding vocals.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Political folk with 80’s pop production. Some good songs here. Solid.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

One of my favorite records of the past 20 years. Every track hits.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Rocks hard with pop guitar hooks over screaming vocals.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Great voice, but grating after several songs.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Loaded with funk

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Mostly enjoyable whiny girl pop

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Angry young man pop hooks over clean aggressive guitars. Right in my Q zone. 10/10.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Some good songs. Not my favorite Nirvana record

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

Not familiar with this artist, but liked the sound (samba?)

Black Sabbath

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

5/5

Fuzzed out British blues rock. Good stuff!

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

4/5

Electro-dream pop. Very chill.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Outstanding prog rock.

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Had only heard their “Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space”. I liked this one more. Like a chiller Radiohead. Lots of reverb and echo.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Decent. I liked Satellite of Love and a few of the rockier songs.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Funky, joyful, political.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Best solo Beatle record. Love this album.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Groovy 60’s Folk pop with a sprinkle of rock. Simon wrote some great songs

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Surprisingly musical dissonant punk rock

The Clash

5/5

So good. Every number rocks.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Funky

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

Sounds like middle era Bowie but not as interesting. Didn’t really dig it

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Lots of brass.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

The vocals were interesting.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Goofy spoken word between Yellow Submarine era Beatle-ish pop. Not bad!

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Listenable. Melodic.

The Band

5/5

The original Americana rock by Canadians (mostly)

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Cleaver beats.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Heavy, loud guitars and Chris Cornell’s A+ rock vocals.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Decent power pop

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Psychedelic blues rock with aggressive vocals by Janis Joplin

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

4/5

Strange musical style mixing folk, R&B, funk. Crazy weird.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

60’s British culturally appropriated blues

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

I dug this!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Slick pop

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

I liked the vocals.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Early nuggets from the Stones.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Genre busting

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Couldn’t find this album in my stream service. Just listened to the title song

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Fast, aggressive and rude fun

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Great lyrics. Ok music

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Not sure why this is on the list.

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Folky & maudlin pop

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Some great songs and interesting arrangements

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Some great songs and interesting arrangements.

Among The Living

Anthrax

3/5

Heavy riffage

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Stunning debut album.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

A couple of solid hits and a few clunkers.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Lacks fire. Mostly forgettable

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Repetitive bass heavy post punk

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Jazzy Brazilian pop with nice guitar work

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Great live southern rock

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

2/5

Synth pop with sleepy female vocals. Ok background music

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Southwestern Americana.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Fun album led by Pharrell’s vocals.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

1/5

This band was everywhere in the MTV mid 80’s. I’m still not a fan.

S&M

Metallica

2/5

Live metal album with an orchestra. Interesting enough but not sure why it made this list.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

So good

Quiet Life

Japan

1/5

Not quiet enough for me

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Live blues by the legend

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Germs

4/5

16 year old me loved this album. Wish I still had that copy. Not available on Apple Music currently.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

Old timey folky country gospel.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Proto-trip hop.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Frusciante returns to save the RHCPs.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Operatic, excellent production by Todd Rundgren.

Boston

5/5

All bangers

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Early TP, some of his biggest hits.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Garage blues

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Funky, but with more mellow tracks that I would’ve guessed from the Hardest Working Man in Show Business.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Starts strong, ends dumb

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Respect may be the best known cut off this disc, but the whole album is fire. Loved her version of Let the Good Times Roll.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Think a German Streisand

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Really disliked this album when I was younger. Not so bad now.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Mellow & hypnotic.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

First listen to this, didn’t hit me as hard as Pink Moon. Probably deserves multiple listens.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Lots of religious overtones on this classic rock album

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Didn’t like this at first, but it makes decent background music.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Proto-hippy grass

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

2/5

Folky songs about sailors and queens.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Wasn’t familiar with this album of early Queen upbeat prog rock.

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Great female rock voice

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Some great songs, but also some misses

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

If Green Day were from the UK

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Energetic!

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Enjoyed it, enough. Repetative.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Not as catchy as his early stuff, but really good

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

Decent early goth rock

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Michael Stipe’s vocal ballads are the albums focal center.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Moody, melodic.

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Alright

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Great voice, ok country ballads

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Genius level guitar and lyrics.

The Undertones

1/5

Not sure why this made the list. Average forgettable pop punk.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Chill cocktail hour electronica

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Hippie Byrds aren’t bad.

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5