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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
E.V.O.L. Sonic Youth	5	2.89	+2.11
Kala M.I.A.	5	2.91	+2.09
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	5	3.16	+1.84
Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears	5	3.17	+1.83
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	5	3.17	+1.83
Buffalo Springfield Again Buffalo Springfield	5	3.18	+1.82
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
Something Else By The Kinks The Kinks	5	3.25	+1.75
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	2	3.42	-1.42
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.38	-1.38
Pacific Ocean Blue Dennis Wilson	2	3.07	-1.07
Devil Without A Cause Kid Rock	1	2.06	-1.06

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	2	5
Radiohead	2	5

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Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

5/5

Incredible rap album, some really great samples from some great oldies. Love love love. Foresee this moving to my somewhat regular rotation

2 likes

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Radiohead Thom Yorke mmmm

1 likes

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The Joshua Tree

3/5

Better than I expected! Was not expecting there to be so many recognizable songs. The intro is very Thom Yorke-inspired (to me) which I think is pretty neat. The outro and intro have similar vibes that I think give a nice symmetry to the album.

The Velvet Underground

3/5

I can tell this album pioneered a lot of things that were emulated after the fact. Reminds me of bands like The Vaccines, The Drums, maybe a little Temper Trap. Very chill album with a very nice outro song, gives Adventure Time

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Not the sound I would expect from what I have heard from Funkadelic, a lot more electric guitar riffs then I have come to expect. Very fun and chill album, good for cooking in the kitchen or grilling outside.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Bangers. Great jamming tracks. Great for a road trip!

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Very cool and raw album. Worth revisiting for sure. Some very deep songs peppered with some very funny songs.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Really solid album, surprised how few songs I recognized. Seemed to be a recurring motif throughout the album which I always appreciate. Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle gave me a good laugh because at 2:25 it sounds a lot like the end part of Kickapoo from Tenacious D

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

5/5

Love love love. A new classic favorite. Early in the morning instrumentals are incredible

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Homeschooled Zach de la Rocha. I didn’t know hype music could make you feel tired

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Amazing album all the way through. One of the best live performances I’ve ever heard

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

It was okay, nothing very memorable. Not much to say about this one.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Not quite my cup of tea personally but a really good example of what good country music can be that doesn’t follow the typical modern day formula of the likes of Kieth Urban etc

Kala

M.I.A.

5/5

Hell yeah brother. Real good sounds on this one. Mango Pickle Down River is a revelation

White Denim

3/5

Fun and good rock

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

An American classic

Queen II

Queen

5/5

❤️Queen

Blood, Sweat & Tears

5/5

Groovy. The Erik Satie cover is cool

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

I liked the message, the music was ehh for me

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Amazing! What an incredibly talented singer. Rest in peace

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

So good. Groovin and movin baby

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Loved it!

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Raps were kinda meh but the beats were pretty good

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

Wacky and fun album

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Felt like I was late for my bus in a DCOM montage

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Nice

The Score

Fugees

5/5

So many good instrumentals. Great 90’s hip hop

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Pretty good! Nothing super standout-ish

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Sounds kinda like if Mick Jagger blew up in the 2010s

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Queen is Queen. Great as always. No real stand-outs in this album for me but great to put on in the summe.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Bangers on bangers. Brass Monkey is fun. Girls is also funny

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

It was fine! Maybe one to re-visit down the road

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Pretty good. Didn’t connect in particular with anything on the album but I think a younger me would have loved this.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

This was a fun one, felt kinda surf rocky

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Love love love. Can’t believe it took this long for me to listen to this album. Perfect in every way

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Didn’t listen to this very closely, just had it on in the background while making dinner. Enjoyed what I heard!

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Very unique. The first album I’m sure I never would have listened to without this list!

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

3/5

Kinda mid. Felt like a Pink Floyd knockoff

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

5/5

Loved it!

Common

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Pop icon. Great album, instrumentation and production was insanely good.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Wowie wow wow

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Fun and surf rocky, solid album all the way through. Would be good for…idk putting on in the background while playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3?

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

Hell yeah this some real west coast gangster raps

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

So cool to see how many rap albums were clearly influenced by this one

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Honestly? The whole album kind of ran together. Nothing stood out to me at all. Very much all sounded the same. I could see myself liking this maybe back in 2019-2020. Maybe worth revisiting but I doubt I’ll change my opinion

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Wow. Incredible from front to back. Damn near a religious experience. This captures so many different sounds and sounds truly timeless. I feel touched by this album

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

Fire

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Very solid

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Beastie Boys