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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	5	3.16	+1.84
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	5	3.27	+1.73
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Urban Hymns The Verve	5	3.36	+1.64
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.41	+1.59
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
Timeless Goldie	4	2.53	+1.47
Moving Pictures Rush	5	3.58	+1.42
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	4	2.59	+1.41
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam	4	2.6	+1.4

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back In Black AC/DC	1	3.86	-2.86
Mothership Connection Parliament	2	3.61	-1.61
GI Germs	1	2.54	-1.54
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	2	3.45	-1.45
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	2	3.35	-1.35
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.35	-1.35
Skylarking XTC	2	3.04	-1.04
The Who Sell Out The Who	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	3	5
Stevie Wonder	2	5
Beatles	4	4.25

5-Star Albums (20)

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Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

I didn't love this album at first but it substantially grew on me as I listened to tracks such as Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, Waiting for a Superman and A Spoonful Weighs a Ton. The first on the list especially moves me and I think that this album has great replay value.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

2/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

4/5

Ramones

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

The Cars

4/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

While well made and I'm grateful that this album gave us the song Hurt that was covered even better by Johnny Cash, much of it is just far too vulgar, nihilistic etc. for its' own good. I regret hearing songs such as Closer and Big Man With A Gun and would warn people against listening to most of this album. The NIN album Fragile is a much better balanced reflection on darkness in my opinion.

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

4/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

4/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Music

Madonna

4/5

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

New Forms

Roni Size

3/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

4/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Germs

1/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

It's okay, it references Lynyrd Skynyrd too much for my taste to tell the coherent story it wants to tell but it does have some creative highlights and is fascinatingly ambitious. The Dirty South is a far better album in my opinion. I would prefer for the band to not use the gd slur in a few of their songs and I find this disappointing.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

I'm not a big fan of rap and hip hop and wasn't expecting much from this recommended album when I first saw it but boy was I wrong. I wish that many of these tracks were more well known anthems, especially As Television the Drug of the Nation and Everyday Life As Become A Health Risk are more relevant now than ever and I couldn't word these societal issues any better myself than citing lyrics from these songs themselves. It's too bad that rap/hip hop has for the most part lost it's roots in this kind of social messaging and conscience. Why can't more rap/hip hop be like this?

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

I skipped the song For Free? because it was gratuitously vulgar in my opinion but the rest of this album is fantastic. It's a great blend of jazz, hip-hop, fusion, rap and soul that I was very impressed with. The social commentary on the album truly moved me and has sat in my head like coins dropped in a wishing well ever since, which is what socially conscious hip-hop was originally released to do. Though it's explicit and more so than what I would usually listen to it's a rough, honest and mature album without glorifying vulgarity or immorality for most of its entirety. My favorite songs are How Much A Dollar Cost, For Sale? and Hood Politics.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Kenya

Machito

4/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

I hate to sound too uptight but the album is too anti religious for my taste. I prefer Chaos AD as that album is much more of an attack on human institutions and corruption rather than divinity itself.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

3/5

4/5

4/5

Goldie

4/5

Adele

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

I'd recommend skipping the song Three Minute Rule because of its' vulgarity but the other full length songs on the album are great listens. Paul's Boutique is a great mix of hip hop, rap, soft rock, hard rock, blues sounds and electronic music with some truly hyper aware, non linear and precise production to carry this wide color palate selection. Many highlight songs such as The Sounds of Science and Shadrach show how these guys dimensions far deeper than the frat boy images their most well known for.I'd say that I haven't heard any rap/hip hop quite as flexibly eclectic as Paul's Boutique and it's a listen that pleasantly surprised me for the most part.

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

There are some songs on here such as Custard Pie and Sick Again that are too sexually charged for my taste(I don't like these type of Zeppelin songs) but the rest of these songs are incredibly well written and have great, intricate creative storytelling that soars above and beyond what most rock bands have attempted.

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

The La's

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

2/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

The record could've done without the unnecessary vulgarity of the song Add It Up but it was fantastic other than that. I especially liked the songs Blister In the Sun, Confessions and Good Feeling.

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

The United States Of America

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

1/5

The Libertines

4/5

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Moby Grape

4/5

It's a fun, if somewhat standard, bluesy, soft rock album. What I found strange was how the slight majority of the songs on this album are not available to listen to on Spotify and I hope that this changes soon. Many of the later song compilations on Spotify, however, have songs that hold up even better than their debut album so I'm glad that I could be pushed to discovering more of their catalog at least.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5