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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
White Ladder David Gray	5	3.07	+1.93
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis	5	3.08	+1.92
The Idiot Iggy Pop	5	3.21	+1.79
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.32	+1.68
Aqualung Jethro Tull	5	3.45	+1.55
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.49	+1.51
1984 Van Halen	5	3.51	+1.49
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
With The Beatles Beatles	5	3.66	+1.34

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	1	3.5	-2.5
We Are Family Sister Sledge	1	3.48	-2.48
C'est Chic CHIC	1	3.34	-2.34
Ys Joanna Newsom	1	2.8	-1.8
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	2	3.09	-1.09
The Bends Radiohead	3	4.01	-1.01
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	2	3	-1

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Beatles	2	5

5-Star Albums (20)

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The Idiot

Iggy Pop

5/5

This still sounds as immediate as it did back in 1977. Not only is the album still a banger, but you have to give credit to the engineering crew for the crisp sound.

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Boston

5/5

I know every note of this album by heart.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

The music is great, but the story premise is lame.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

This album still sounds as fresh as it did back in the late '70s.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

I'd never heard this album before, though I'm very familiar with "The Suburbs." I like their brand of dreamy rock, though in smaller doses.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

1/5

Disco is still dead. I did try to listen to this album on its own merits, but it's still the same repetitive, slick, overproduced monotony that it was in the 1970s.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Pretty good, though I probably wouldn't listen to the whole album at one time. I wasn't very familiar with PJ Harvey except by name, but I can see how this album earned a place on the list.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

5/5

This still sounds as immediate as it did back in 1977. Not only is the album still a banger, but you have to give credit to the engineering crew for the crisp sound.

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

I liked it more than I thought I would. I was only peripherally aware of Hole in the day -- like most people, I knew Courtney Love more as Kurt Cobain's gf rather than as an artist in her own right.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

This album was revolutionary for its time, and the raw emotion still comes through.

The Specials

4/5

What a fun album! I was only familiar with the first track, but really enjoyed listening to the rest of it.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Wow -- I had forgotten what an amazing voice Dusty Springfield had. The arrangements of her songs definitely sound like the products of their time, but her voice comes through as beautiful and immediate as ever.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

This album is not really to my taste, but I was impressed by the musicianship and the quality of engineering.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

I liked this better than I thought I would. It's very well engineered.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Still a classic. You can hear the raspy weariness in Jim Morrison's vocals, made all the more poignant by the knowledge that he wouldn't live very long after it was recorded.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

I liked it! Some nice old-school punk. I don't think I could listen to the whole album beginning to end, but I enjoyed it in small doses.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

One of the best of all time

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

I actually liked it, though not to listen to continuously. It's part rap, part metal -- and actually, a lot of fun.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

I loved this album back when it was newer, but don't like it nearly as much as I do the later albums, like Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Some really great old songs on this disc.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

This is the first time I've heard the entire album, though I know the big hit songs. I actually thought all the songs sounded more or less the same, but I like the sound.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Wonderful; blues album from one of the early supergroups!

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

I have no idea why this album was included in the 1001, but now I can say I've listened to it. Deeply unremarkable.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

1/5

I've never liked Bob Dylan. I still don't.

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

It was very nice -- mellow and relaxing.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Nice to hear early Smiths again.

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Always a fun listen. The Beatles hadn't quite developed their compositional chops, but these older songs still have all the joy and energy of that time in their career arc.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

I really enjoyed this album, even though I hadn't heard it before.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

I didn't get this album when it was first released -- but as I listened to more of the Talking Heads, I because a real fan. This is a great reminder of where the band started out.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

5/5

Wonderful!

1984

Van Halen

5/5

Loved it!

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness