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Album	You	Global	Diff
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	5	2.86	+2.14
Shadowland k.d. lang	5	2.87	+2.13
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.92	+2.08
Gasoline Alley Rod Stewart	5	2.96	+2.04
John Prine John Prine	5	3.21	+1.79
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart	5	3.24	+1.76
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	5	3.24	+1.76
Eagles Eagles	5	3.3	+1.7
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.31	+1.69
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Gorillaz Gorillaz	1	3.53	-2.53
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	2	4.15	-2.15
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J	1	2.9	-1.9
Konnichiwa Skepta	1	2.74	-1.74
Lam Toro Baaba Maal	1	2.73	-1.73
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.63	-1.63
Moving Pictures Rush	2	3.57	-1.57
Play Moby	2	3.46	-1.46
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	2	3.42	-1.42

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	3	5
Rod Stewart	2	5

5-Star Albums (24)

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Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J · 1 likes

1/5

Rap's not my thing.

1-Star Albums (6)

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Gorillaz

1/5

Definitely not for me.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

5/5

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

5/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

5/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

1/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Except for a couple of hints of the country-rock Byrds we came to love, this is an album of bland psychodelia. For completists only.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

5/5

Absolutely love it.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

2/5

Never really cared for the White Stripes. Jack's voice grates on me. This album's no different.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

The rockers are really good, even to this day. The slower songs are dated.

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

It's OK, but not really my cup of tea.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

OK, but not really my thing.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Some really, really great songs. Others don't survive as well.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Interesting wall of sound. But after a while, all the songs sound the same.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Not my thing at all.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Forgettable singer songwriter stuff

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

One of the great albums of all time.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Great classic instrumental jazz.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

One of my all-time favorite albums

Face to Face

The Kinks

4/5

Classic Kinks.

The La's

3/5

Ok but nothing really special.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Amazing how much music I never heard of before. This was mellow and very nice.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

A few songs are really good, like Paranoid, but the others are not to my taste

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Great stuff.

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

Doesn't hold my attention very well.

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

1/5

Rap's not my thing.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

One of my all-time favorite albums.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

A whole bunch of wonderful songs.

Play

Moby

2/5

Interesting, but it's the type of music I listen to in elevators, not for pleasure.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Gets kind of boring after a while.

Electric

The Cult

3/5

OK.

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Rap is not my thing.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Don't like rap.

Suede

3/5

So so stuff

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

Not one of my favorites

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Average.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Really good funky stuff

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

OK, but doesn't age quite as well as some other bands.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

Not the style of music I like.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Delightful.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

A superior album

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Classic rock

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

I admit to no knowing Nick Drake. Loved it.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

They weren't my favorites.

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

I like them better today than when this first came out.

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Not really my type of music

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Love Norah Jones

Bert Jansch

4/5

I admit to never hearing of him before. Really liked this album

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

I always want to like them more than I actually do.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Not my kind of music.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Not for me.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

Not my kind of music.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

Not for me.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Never heard the album before. Actually, stands up quite well today.

Future Days

Can

4/5

Not bad.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Really great stuff.

Le Tigre

4/5

Love Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna is the daughter of a friend.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

I was never a Queen fan.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Too varied, all over the place.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Good stuff, except for that last song that just kept going on and on and on without adding much at all

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

OK, but more metal than I like.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Couldn't make it through any one song. Not at all for me.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

A great guitarist, but I never really liked the music.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Very nice.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Classic album

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Excellent jazz.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

4/5

Very nice stuff.

Eagles

5/5

The first and best

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Love Stan Getz

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Really good stuff.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

Sorry, don't like rap.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

A lot of great songs.

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Never heard of this person before. Really nice album

Joan Armatrading

4/5

Classic 70's folk/pop.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

I didn't think I liked them much when I first heard them, but this sounds pretty good today.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

One of the all-time best.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Springsteen wannabes.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

A great, great album

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

A great, great, great album

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

I like the idea of Bjork more than the actual listening to Bjork

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

3/5

OK, but it doesn't really move me.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

5/5

A great album from back when Rod Stewart was great.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Could not listen because his music isn't available on Amazon music.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Great, great album.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Kind of the same thing after a while.

John Prine

5/5

One of my all-time favorite albums by one of my all-time favorite artists. Gone too soon.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

OK, but nothing to brag about.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Classic, still wonderful

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

One of the best ever.