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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes	5	3.07	+1.93
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	4	2.48	+1.52
War U2	5	3.48	+1.52
American Gothic David Ackles	4	2.48	+1.52
Playing With Fire Spacemen 3	4	2.54	+1.46
Chore of Enchantment Giant Sand	4	2.64	+1.36
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.64	+1.36
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	4	2.65	+1.35
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.71	+1.29

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	1	3.17	-2.17
Roots Sepultura	1	2.79	-1.79
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers	1	2.58	-1.58
Arrival ABBA	2	3.5	-1.5
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	2	3.28	-1.28
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.22	-1.22
The Bones Of What You Believe CHVRCHES	2	3.18	-1.18
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	2	3.12	-1.12
Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers	2	3.11	-1.11
Wild Gift X	2	3	-1

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Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

I enjoyed this. Undoubtedly of its time - synth drums and the global music which Paul Simon and David Byrne embraced around the same time. But I had never heard it before (or don't remember it), and the songs made my commute pleasant 42+ years after they were recorded.

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Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

I appreciate this, but didnt love it. Maybe it was my environment - trying to work and listen simultaneously. Seems like it might benefit from multiple listenings. But there are 1000 other albums!

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

This album makes me so nostalgic. I spent so many late nights writing college papers listening to this on repeat. Soothing melodies and a beautiful, haunting voice.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

too poppy and synth techno even more me.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

I know Zappa was a genius with perfect pitch, amazing musical talent, and just super smart. But his music always makes me feel like I’m doing homework. I should be paying more attention, getting more of the references. I’m not having fun, I’m not enjoying it.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Delicious.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

As loud and boisterous as ever.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

I enjoyed this. Had heard of Billy Bragg, never really listened to him before. Good album (esp Disc 1). A minimal set of instruments, but the music and lyrics often move in unexpected ways. Good stuff.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

I had high hopes starting out. But soon found it repetitive: drum, bass, jangly elec guitar. Yes, there are songs that are very different, but my overall takeaway is a lot of the same. Others have done it better or at least more entertainingly, esp the speak-singing (early Talking Heads, B-52s). And OMG: 43 songs!

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

I just can’t. Certainly an archetype of the time and and sound. But too twangy, too repetitive for me. One of the few albums I outright stopped listening to.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

I mostly enjoyed this.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Music that’s on its face difficult to listen to. Ok, mbv, you win. You are difficult. A few songs less difficult than others. But still, there are like a thousand other albums to listen to.

Talvin Singh

3/5

Ok.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

chill. enjoyed it on my commute. In 1984, I would have hated this music,

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Love some Nick Cave. Lots of soulful lyrics. I would have enjoyed some variety in style and beats.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

This was surprising and enjoyable. His voice kept reminding me of late Lou Reed.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Classic.

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Great album. A mix of punk and rock that you don't need to be 15 years old to appreciate.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

This may be a little heretical, but is this a little too nice? I mean this Steamroller Blues is one of the most polite versions of the song. He makes the phrase "a hefty hunk of steaming junk" sound purely descriptive wrt a demolition derby car. Still, James Taylor. The '70s almost literally began with this album.

The Only Ones

4/5

Enjoyable punk / ska mix. Never heard of this band before.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Surprisingly more mellow and less compelling than expected.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Too cerebral.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

4/5

Classic good, growling Tom Waits.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

Supposedly what happens in the mind of someone in a drug induced coma. There's a lot of bass and drums happening in that coma dream. Well produced but also off-putting.

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

More enjoyable than expected, and much more mellow. a lot of spoken word.

Roots

Sepultura

1/5

Some of these albums, I just can't.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Great. Classic

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Dreamy

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Great album

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Classic but feels a little too mellow today.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Such great songs. Surprised about how low the production values are.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

I really like this album. I had forgotten about all of the industrial sound that accompanies the ethereal lyrics and mood.

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

I had forgot about this one. Still super enjoyable, and difficult to pigeonhole.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Classic

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

4/5

wow. This was an unexpected, happy surprise. Great music. Almost feels like EDM from time to time, but seems like natural instruments. Even the guitar heavy songs are nice vs cacophonic.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Classic

Queen II

Queen

4/5

The Libertines

3/5

Surprisingly good. Lots of jangly guitars.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

good. funky.

Wild Gift

2/5

X (they knew 'X' was cool before Elon) is always hit or miss with me the song and the mood I'm in. Some melodic, some hardcore. If I'm in the mood, great, but otherwise not always persuasive to keep me listening.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Wow. really cool. Far too cool for 1982version of me. Sorry to have missed this guys before. Wide variety of styles. very good mix and vibe.

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Good ol' Replacements. More on the hard side vs melodic Replacements.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Still great. Listening to the full album for first time in years, I was surprised by the strength of piano throughout the album. One often thinks of Springteen as guitar and horns.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Still great.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian