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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.14	+1.86
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	5	3.28	+1.72
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.43	+1.57
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.48	+1.52
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.69	+1.31
Faust IV Faust	4	2.78	+1.22
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.79	+1.21
Elephant The White Stripes	5	3.85	+1.15
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	2	3.28	-1.28
Faith George Michael	2	3.28	-1.28
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	2	3.15	-1.15
Meat Puppets II Meat Puppets	2	3.01	-1.01

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Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Wonderfully timeless. Some tracks hit it for me more than others.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The funk/disco fusion on Boogie On ... is killer. So much of this was new to me and I really liked it.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Kinda underwhelming. Don't feel like it's aged as well.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

It's... so dense! The flow is good, but a little too much for regular listening.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

I appreciate the history, but the old punk scene doesn't really do it for me. It's like, too much of a slow plod.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

5/5

Some of the drumming and background seems almost Beach Boys-esque, and I hear lots of precursors/similarities to the Talking Heads. Also just like, weird electronic experimentation that's pretty fun.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

It was ok, but not really my scene.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Dig it. Deez nuuuuuuuuuuuuts!

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

I agree with Dre, "Shady's basic". The flow is fine, but like, whether ironic or not he's just being an asshole.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Classic, hits me right in the college. I think I didn't appreciate Jack White until a little after this came out, but he really does a great service to modern rock and roll.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

Had never even heard this name before. It's ok, but didn't really hook me on anything. Can see where they fit in to the overall Brit punk genre.

Elvis Presley

4/5

It's Elvis. Classic. Prob won't go into the everyday rotation, but it's great to hear.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Mr Loaf fucking kills. All cylinders, all the time.

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Not a fan. The singles come off strong but the rest of the album really takes a dive.

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

I like the ambient background stuff. Better than some other Brit-punk ...

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Classic. Not much new here, but always a pleasure.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Solid.

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

Interesting but... didn't pull me in.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Seems so deeply engrained in a lot of what I hear at this point, great listen.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Classic 90s, but it seemed a little stunted compared to their little bit later stuff. Feels like I remember it being a few bpm faster.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

so Bowie.

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Interesting listen... the tubas harken back to an older time, but the definitely still has a foot in rock and punk.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Definitely embedded in my brain as formative music memories.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Yup.

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

It's... surprising. Background orchestra is really moving. I didn't get super into it, but glad to have heard it.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Good stuff. Would listen again.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Pretty fun.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Like it. Some guitar riffs sounded like they might have been things Jack White pulled directly from.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Great banjo and really talented group of musicians.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

It's interesting, and I appreciate the representation of some non-Western ideas, but... eh.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic. Don't think I'd realized how folksy some of the olds Stones is.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Some massive hits, but super disjointed as an album.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

It's... not bad, but not good.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Classic

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Kinda all over the place. Not keen on it.

Garbage

4/5

Good stuff. Never listened to it much but it's solid.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Eh, it's not bad, but not too sticky for me.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Kinda amazing.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Classic.

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

New to me and interesting. Kinda all over but i dig their vibe.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Couple classics, but as an album pretty rough. Some of the technical work in the "other" songs is good and very much foundational prog, but it's uneven.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Good stuff. Super mellow.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Not bad, but... eh.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Pretty deeply ingrained, and seems to hold up. Even the back of the album still pays well.