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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.29	+1.71
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.34	+1.66
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.43	+1.57
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	5	3.49	+1.51
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.49	+1.51
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.61	+1.39
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	5	3.62	+1.38
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.72	+1.28
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.81	+1.19

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.38	-2.38
Tommy The Who	1	3.32	-2.32
Master Of Puppets Metallica	2	3.72	-1.72
Sincere Mj Cole	1	2.38	-1.38
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37
I Should Coco Supergrass	2	3.35	-1.35
The College Dropout Kanye West	2	3.31	-1.31
The Next Day David Bowie	2	3.29	-1.29
Elastica Elastica	2	3.22	-1.22
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	2	3.12	-1.12

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Artist	Albums	Average
Miles Davis	2	5

5-Star Albums (11)

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1-Star Albums (3)

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

1999

Prince

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

This is insanely joyous

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

Honestly made me realize why they call it “rock ‘n roll” since that’s certainly what this album does.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

I liked this much more than I expected to.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Charming nostalgic romp through 80s multicultural optimism. Interesting that she’s Swedish given how much it sounds like NYC but then the monoculture of the times, from Madonna to Fame to Paula Abdul that influenced the sound, made this more an assemblage and a performance of all those identities. Some fun songs. I was between a 2 and a 3 and ultimately went with 2 but keep in mind 2 isn’t bad, and generally I liked it but probably wouldn’t play it again.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Ok “Minuit” got me

Play

Moby

4/5

Loved this album unironically when it came out. I knew it was uncool but didn’t care, it was fun as hell and it still is.

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

So gorgeous. Some minor filler but the bangers bang.

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

2/5

Some nice moments but felt a bit too exploratory without fully finding itself. May just be a bias against prog (despite my love of Rush). Musicianship is phenomenal tho.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Pretty, sometimes too pretty, but was good for flow state while running

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

So fun. Every song is hilarious and brilliant in its own way. The interludes also add up to a kind of collage art. Paved the way for Pavement, no pun intended. One of the interesting effects of doing this is that it forces comparison, and since I listened to the King Crimson album two days ago I’m realizing I prefer stuff that isn’t so forward about its craft and both allows and promotes mistakes and flaws as part of the process. Which perhaps says something about me but that’s for a different forum.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

The opening song is cool but the sound gets a bit cloying after a while. The Jesus song is peak cringe.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Love this album. At times it feels just slightly thin for a 5, and the closing cover of Light My Fire is genuinely terrible, but man there are some gorgeous moments throughout.

Elastica

2/5

It’s fine but we have Blur and Pixies at home.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

Cool album, good to dance to, a bit repetitive but then I suppose that’s the point. Just noting for reference since I’ve been a bit inconsistent - 1 star - didn’t like it, wouldn’t play it again 2 stars - decent, I liked it but may not necessarily play it again 3 stars - good, I liked it quite a bit and may play it again 4 stars - great, I loved it but may have some uneven aspects 5 stars - brilliant

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

I know they’re cringe now but I loved this album when it came out and I still do. Though I stopped listening to them after this one.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Lovely album. And damn this guy could sing.

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

2/5

Just not my speed, no pun intended. Obviously the musicianship is exceptional (even Lars sounds good) but I had no emotional connection except for Disposable Heroes, which is a great song.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Mr. Nelson, I owe you apology, I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

Tommy

The Who

1/5

I generally like The Who but I just couldn’t get into this at all.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

1/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

This was a wild one. When she gets swinging it’s really good. When she goes high it can get shrill and almost alarming. Songs often build slowly and then take an interesting turn. I started off thinking this is a 1, then it gradually won me over with its idiosyncratic charms, then it lost me for a bit. It was a fun ride and I’m glad I listened to it, and it’s certainly a compelling historical document of 70s feminist art, but I’m not sure I’d come back to it. Ultimately a 2.5 but I’m trying to stick to the rating system I set earlier.