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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	2.97	+2.03
Skylarking XTC	5	3.04	+1.96
Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.09	+1.91
The La's The La's	5	3.14	+1.86
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.32	+1.68
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.32	+1.68
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.82	-1.82
Chris Christine and the Queens	1	2.82	-1.82
Bad Michael Jackson	2	3.8	-1.8
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	2	3.58	-1.58
...And Justice For All Metallica	2	3.43	-1.43
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	2	3.37	-1.37
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	2	3.29	-1.29
The Stooges The Stooges	2	3.26	-1.26
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.22	-1.22

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	5
Pink Floyd	4	4.5
Radiohead	3	4.67
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Prince	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	4	4.25
The Who	4	4.25
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	3	4.33
David Bowie	5	4

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Smash

The Offspring

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Solid, if minor album. More like a sketchbook, with a couple of standout McCartney tunes, especially "Maybe I'm Amazed," which has stood the test of time. Paul might have been at an emotional low at the time because of the breakup of the Beatles, but his excellent musicianship is evident, as he plays every instrument very well and is in good voice. It was nice to revisit this album.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

1999

Prince

5/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

John Prine

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

hot rats

Skylarking

XTC

5/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Woodface

Crowded House

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

The Doors

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Boston

5/5

Say what you want about dad rock and the fact that many of these songs have been played to death by FM radio, but this is almost perfection. The son writing, guitar playing and vocals are top level for rock music. Top. Level.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

This is rock music at its finest. I remember my roommate blasting it out of our off campus housing windows, speakers in the windows facing the street, at maximum volume. Take that, fuckers!

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

3/5

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

IMHO, one of the 2 most important albums of the rock era. A masterpiece of baroque rock, the tippity top of songwriting, orchestration/production, and vocal performance sprung from the godhead of Brian Wilson. "God Only Knows" and "Caroline, No" are sublime confections and I could listen to them non-stop for the rest of my days without remorse. A shame I can only give it 5 stars. If I could, I give it 99.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Traffic

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

I'm old. So I remember this album from when it first came out. And Elvis is one of my all-time faves. I understand you younguns might not appreciate how truly influential this album is, but his songwriting married punk, new wave and power pop. And he still got better! 5 Stars.

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

I really like Karen's voice, but overall the album is just too blah. The 2 hits are classics, but there's a lot of filler in here. I liked their version of "Reason to Believe" but it's not close to essential.

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

The Stooges

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

The Band

4/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Just a tick off the best Beach Boys, but still worthy of a listen or two. Carl is legit, the other guys not so much.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

A step and a half down from Ziggy Stardust, both in song writing and performance, but still...I gotta give it 4 stars, which may tell you more about how highly I rate ZS. I think we have to admit that at this point of his life and his fame, David was pretty fucked up. Don't do drugs, kids. The album is a portrait of a disordered mind, but his musicianship drags some of the material to a higher plane. My favorites are Jean Genie and Panic in Detroit. Drive-In Saturday is good too. The cover art is iconic and worth half a star alone. So, 3.5 stars for the content, .5 stars for the album art? Yeah, whatever.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

The Cars

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

This stuff is right up my alley. Beatlesque with a hint of old time rock n' roll.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. What an album. Chock full of great songs and performances. Probably none better than "Changes," which is probably the most popular track here, for good reason. This is Bowie at his most intelligent, open, and insightful...maybe ever. And the arrangement is just to die for; that sax at the end just gets me every time. Oh, You Pretty Things is the precursor to Ziggy. "And it looks as if they're here to stay." I guess so, Dave, I guess so. There's really not a less than 4 track here. Bewley Brothers is a tough nut to crack, for sure. But worth the repeated listenings required. David's voice will never sound this full again. But that that's not faint praise. He was an excellent vocalist almost his entire career. The epitome of knowing how to sing vs. having a great voice. Here, he has both. Just an essential, great album.

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

The 3 hit songs are great. I loved them for 45 years. The rest is just OK. I screeching vocals can only be taken in small doses. Solid 2.5. Round up to 3.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Blessed with one of the most angelic voices in all of "rock", Harry Nilsson is somewhat of a "what if" story. This album is clearly the high point of his commercial success, but he has other worthy albums that never broke through. The 3 hits are the obvious highlights here, with a noticeable drop off for the other songs. There's a movie out there somewhere that tells his story - it's more than a little bittersweet. I can't give this more than 3 stars. "Without You" written by fellow sad sacks Ham/Evans of Badfinger is the highlight. That song alone is worth 3 stars.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Black Sabbath

2/5

ah geeez. I liked Ozzy. He was a decent chap, it seemed. He’s recently passed, sadly. Not to speak ill of the dead, but…this is ghastly. I understand why this may be appealing to a younger segment of the listening public. The image and vibe is everything. The music is not, how do we say…good. Yes, I’m old. But I was young once, and this did nothing for me then, either. Good on you if you like it. Not for me.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Listening again after a number of years, I have to say this is quite enjoyable. Certainly a much different direction than the rocknrolla Ziggy years and the TWD, a signpost for the new and improved David. Side One is a sorta peppy pop album; Side Two will make you question what planet you're on. 3 stars? 4? Probably in between, but I'll go 4. I'm feeling good today.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

I should like these guys. I bought several of their albums: this one and the Original Soundtrack back in the day. They are clearly talented, but strangely off-putting. It's clear they WANT to be this way, it's not a bad producer, or bad luck. A couple of good songs, but largely forgettable. 2 stars.

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Parklife

Blur

3/5