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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Copper Blue Sugar	5	2.97	+2.03
The Trinity Session Cowboy Junkies	5	3.07	+1.93
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.39	+1.61
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.64	+1.36
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	5	3.65	+1.35
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
Good Old Boys Randy Newman	4	2.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	1	3.31	-2.31
Remedy Basement Jaxx	1	2.68	-1.68
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	2	3.63	-1.63
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	2	3.52	-1.52
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2	3.49	-1.49
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	2	3.37	-1.37

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Copper Blue

Sugar

5/5

Man, maybe I just am too much of a sucker for the 90s, but this really brought me back to high school and college, and makes me mad I didn't know about Sugar back then. Awesome wall of sound, and just general groove to these songs. Probably being a little generous with the 5, but since there is no 4.5, we are rounding up.

3 likes

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Solid live album, especially considering the location and difficulties to make it happen. Some great gems throughout the set list, although there are a few songs that just kind of pass into the background. Clearly groundbreaking, but not quite a 5-star for me.

2 likes

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At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

It was fine. Didn't really care for his voice on most of the tracks. The one track that stood out more than most was So In Love, but the rest were just kind of blah. Just not my jam.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Really enjoyed this, and wish that there was enough there to give it a 5, but it didn't quite reach that level for me. Death of a Disco Dancer and Paint a Vulgar Picture were my faves from the set. Kind of a shame that this was the band's last hurrah, since it seems that they really hit a stride with these songs. Would have been interesting to see how they transformed into the 90s, and competed with the grunge movement and even the new wave of British sound.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

It was fine. Not something I am going to go out of my way to listen to again. Decent background music

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Painful to get through. Were it not for Stan and The Real Slim Shady this would be a 1. Just too much obnoxiousness and needless childishness. Because that is what this is. Not genius, but being a petulant child.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

This one checks all the boxes and really highlights the skill of the band. Obviously it has the two bangers in Sure Shot and Sabotage, but it also delves into a number of other genres in both the instrumental tunes, but also on those with vocals. The rhymes are crisp and this is solid all around. Plus it has Biz Markie.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

A fun listen and great to hear the interaction between Cooke and the audience throughout. Would be solid to put on during a party and just let it play all the way through.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

2/5

This is just not my thing. Nothing really stood out while listening, nothing made me perk up and pay more attention. It just was blah. Makes me wonder how this was so highly rated back in the day.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Nice and chill album to listen to. Nothing too over the top for me, but solid

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

4/5

Talk about getting hit with it off the bat with Randy throwing down the n-word. The whole concept of the album is unique and he puts together a solid indictment of how we treat race relations, and relations between the north and the south in this country. Probably won't listen to this too much in the future, but definitely well done.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Really awesome listen and the perfect fit for the cold, snowy day we were having. Added to favorites on Spotify and bought the vinyl for some more cold nights.

Gorillaz

3/5

I remember loving this album a lot more when it came out. Maybe it was being 24 and wondering if I was going to be out of a job at any moment and feeling the angst and creativity in the songs and the Gorillaz concept. This just doesn’t hold for me 20-some years later.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Really fun listen. Some solid grooves on the album, and shows how timeless the Isley Brothers could be. Not quite a 5 star for me, but would definitely roll a few of these tracks back now and again.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

2/5

Partly this is a vote based on how hard it is to listen to this album overall. Not on Spotify, and I am not paying another music service just to be able to listen to it in full. Amazon makes you shuffle it, but then adds in songs from OTHER ALBUMS into the shuffle, which is just insanity. But also, man, Neil Young just sounds like he is whining into the microphone half the time, and this is just dull. I think the original critical reaction to it was spot on, in that it was a waste of time. Not sure why they thought it got better with age.

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

It was fine, which is about all I can say for it. Nothing outstanding, and just an odd selection for the top 1001 albums. Very much a product of its time, although does sound a little like Ted Leo before Ted Leo.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Why, just why is this one of the top albums? I knew it was over when Spotify flipped to a Fatboy Slim song, and it was actually good. Hard pass.

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

It’s fine although it feels like a jam session in need of an editor. Some cool sections in each of the tracks but there are just parts that could be trimmed to make the whole thing tighter. I am not against free jazz or jam bands but this doesn’t feel coherent in parts. Still not totally terrible as background music.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Solid psychedelic rock album.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

I enjoyed it. Verlaine makes it sound like an early version of the Talking Heads, which in a way it was, as they were floating in some of the same circles when this was released. Worth another listen, but just a 3 for me today.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Man that album flies man. McCartney is great, but there isn't a lot here that I am racing to go hear again and again, except Maybe I'm Amazed. That is the most Beatles-like of the tunes. Still a decent listen. Just not more than a 3 for me.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

I remember when the title song and the video for it came out and I was absolutely enthralled by it. The rest of the album lives up to that, and it was a joy to run through.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Decent, but would rather listen to Getz and Gilberto.

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Such a fun listen. You just know you are going to be rocking when you hear the opening strains of some of these songs. My only complaint is that for some reason it loses a little depth of sound in the streaming, which seemed odd.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Classic

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

This is just fun.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Again, it is mostly fine. I really enjoyed the last song, Say Yes, but not enough of anything else to pull this above the middle of the road three stars.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

1977

Ash

4/5

The Trinity Session