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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
The Band The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.38	+1.62
Born To Be With You Dion	4	2.62	+1.38
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.7	+1.3
The Infotainment Scan The Fall	4	2.72	+1.28
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	5	3.79	+1.21
Scott 4 Scott Walker	4	2.8	+1.2
Rapture Anita Baker	4	2.94	+1.06
Black Monk Time The Monks	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.62	-1.62
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	2	3.44	-1.44
Veckatimest Grizzly Bear	2	3.05	-1.05
Hunky Dory David Bowie	3	4	-1

5-Star Albums (7)

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Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Good album, lots of variety on it, definitely worth a deep dive

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

I like some of Bowie’s music but mostly I like the idea and persona more than the music.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Great album, should add it to the regular rotation

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

The album that has Take me to the River is getting 5 stars automatically

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I know this is not a 2 star album, I just don’t really like The Rolling Stones. So I can appreciate what they did and how people love them but they just never did it for me.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

I know this is not a 2 star album, I just don’t really like The Rolling Stones. So I can appreciate what they did and how people love them but they just never did it for me.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

Listening to this in 2023, were one inclined to feel uncharitable, I would say this sounds kinda like Jack Black making a Tom Waits album. I like Tom Waits as a person more than as a singer unfortunately.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

Pretty good for noise rock/electronica. Was unfamiliar with them before. Not sure what the right mood is to listen to this but I’ll probably revisit it again.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

One of the top albums of the 2000’s garage rock revival. Really good stuff

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

One of the top albums of the 2000’s garage rock revival. Really good stuff

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Confederate Flag imagery aside, this is probably the perfect Southern Rock album

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

This is a really good album if you like Sinatra, just not really my jam.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

I was 12 years old when this album came out, which is absolutely the peak time to hear it. I still have fond feelings for early Offspring records before they got a little cringey.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Not even my favorite Nick Cave album and it’s still a 5 star album.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

I don’t even know how to rate this album in 2023. I probably listens to this more than any other album from 94 to 96. I think it still holds up as a prime 90’s pop-punk album, and is more enjoyable to listen to than most anything else from that era. There’s a reason Green Day is still more relevant than NOFX or Offpsring or any of the others.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Cool album I will probably never listen to again

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Just a classic album

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

The Band

5/5

I love The Band and I love this album, classic Americana by a group of Canadians and one American. Justice for Levon Helm, I love Robbie Robertson too, but Helm was the soul of the band

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

What a great album, great for throwing on and drinking whisky, or staring off a porch into a dusky sunset.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

If you want the funk, man this is the place to get it.

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Reggae just really isn’t my jam, I can appreciate this for what it is and how important Bob Marley is, but it’s not something I’ll throw on with any regularity.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

I don’t care for R.E.M.

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Well that was a weird one

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

What a weird and delightful album

Hms Fable

Shack

3/5

It’s fine, it’s late 90’s Brit-pop. There it on the background and no one will complain. Will I ever revisit it? Probably not

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

S&M

Metallica

3/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

4/5

Well this was a surprise. Gonna add this into the list of artists worth a deeper dive into.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

The kind of album you need to sit and just listen to, it’s not background music. You have to listen to the lyrics and let the gentle sadness and emotions wash over you.

Pretenders

4/5

I unfairly always thought of the Pretenders as not a serious band but I was wrong, this rips.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

I can appreciate the craft and the skill but this is not particularly for me.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

I listened to the hell out this album in the mid 2010’s. Still holds up as a great electro-pop album.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

It’s certainly a long and beautiful album that’s unfortunately not for me.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

How can you make a post-punk album before punk is even invented? I don’t know but The Monks did it. What we you want to call it, proto-punk etc… this is a weird fun album that I’m sure sounded like nothing else in 1966

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Everyone under 50 who loves music must have their “I’m sorry, I wasn’t familiar with your game” moment and this one is mine. I listens to Pet Sounds years and years ago and could appreciate it, but still didn't get it. Now I do.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Not Steely Dan’s best album or my favorite of theirs but still a stone cold classic. Wild how fully formed they are here, their sound would certainly deepen and evolve over the years but the perfectly crafted melodies, jazz influenced pop rock, weird lyrics, it’s all here.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

4/5

Oh yeah, that’s my jam right there

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

It’s fine if it’s what you like

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Yeah, just not my cup of tea.