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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.34	+1.66
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.7	+1.3
Oedipus Schmoedipus Barry Adamson	4	2.78	+1.22
Chris Christine and the Queens	4	2.81	+1.19
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	4	2.89	+1.11
Ten Pearl Jam	5	3.91	+1.09
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	5	3.94	+1.06
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	5	3.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.29	-2.29
American Beauty Grateful Dead	1	3.24	-2.24
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	1	3.16	-2.16
Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C.	1	3.12	-2.12
Dare! The Human League	1	3.05	-2.05
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé	1	2.86	-1.86
Live At The Regal B.B. King	2	3.66	-1.66
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.63	-1.63
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	2	3.54	-1.54
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.53	-1.53

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Radiohead	3	4.33

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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did not listen

this felt like some of the most stilted, uninspired rap I've ever heard - using a very basic drum machine 2-step beat for every song with not much to spice it up, every line is sung with the same intonation and inflexion towards the end, which is also the only place where the rhyme happens. The lyrics are also quite boring, there's not much clever rhyming, wordplay or clever writing, and all of this results in every song blending together into one goopy slop that gets stale after the first 15 minutes. I wondered if I was too critical and whether this album was just a sign of growing pains of something that would become the "golden age" of hiphop, but then I checked the year and saw that it comes from the same period of time as NWA, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys and Ice T. So I really don't get the hype. All in all it feels like Run-D.M.C made a song that was alright, and then decided to iterate on it slightly to make an entire album. Extremely boring.