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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Psychocandy The Jesus And Mary Chain	5	2.94	+2.06
Woodface Crowded House	5	3.1	+1.9
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	5	3.17	+1.83
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.24	+1.76
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	5	3.38	+1.62
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	5	3.38	+1.62
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	5	3.49	+1.51

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Utero Nirvana	2	3.83	-1.83
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.76	-1.76
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	3	4.26	-1.26
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters	2	3.23	-1.23
Traffic Traffic	2	3.08	-1.08
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	2	3.06	-1.06
Your Arsenal Morrissey	2	3.05	-1.05
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (17)

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American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

Kind of boring. Jesus of Suburbia is the lone standout.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Very beautiful but unexciting. I imagine this is something that needed to be viewed on video.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Listening to this is a seedy smoke-filled bar in 1973 would have gone absolutely nutso

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Fine.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

Incredible. If the Beatles were good.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Not sure why they call it “Bad!”

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Fun.

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Sonically a lot of the songs just sound the same. Fun to listen to for a little bit.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Really good.

In Utero

Nirvana

2/5

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

5/5

Fantastic. Perfect encapsulation of the early 90s.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Fine. Felt derivative but could be the genesis of all that type of music. Feel like this service should give a brief history of the bands/album so I know why they’re important.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Some of the greatest to ever do it.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

Fine.

Suede

3/5

Don’t really remember!

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

So good!

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Very fun and appreciate the length.

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

Fun. Obviously very influential.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Beautiful. One of the greatest singers of all time.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Very good. Proto Mac Demarco

Van Halen

3/5

Some classics but mostly not for me.

Cypress Hill

3/5

Takes me back to GTA

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Some bangers but… overrated.

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

Pretty good. Surprised Ice Cube isn't more talked about.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Beautiful, vibrant.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Fun.

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Really just not for me.

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Great car ride listen.

1999

Prince

5/5

Is there a better song than Little Red Corvette?

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

Nick Cave unrefined. Some interesting stuff here

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Fine. Don’t see the post-punk label much.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Not for me!

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

As a noted Jack White hater, I stand correct. Sixteen Saltines...

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Beautiful! Will listen again in a car.

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Felt old.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Zatarans type beat

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Kind of blown away by some of the stuff on here. Very of its time, in a fresh way.

Traffic

2/5

Not very good, imho

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Fun. Lots of songs I’ve never heard.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Great left-wing musician.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Good, energetic blues.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Some real heaters on here.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Bland.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

I listen to so many bands clearly influenced by this

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

As someone who likes The Smiths, this is insanely boring.

Technique

New Order

3/5

Fun, but it's just not Joy Division.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Beautiful and haunting. Incredible that people can approach death in the way he did.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

No impact on me. Rather boring.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Songs in the key of Super Mario brothers

The Band

3/5

Fun for what it is. Thought this band was better given the reputation.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

Every song is just Ace of Spades!

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Some interesting stuff here, but probably would not listen again.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Not exactly up my alley, but I think of so many artists influenced by this.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Great... Definitely influenced by the Cure.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

First half of the album was incredible. Yell more!

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Thought this was a lot of fun, especially as the album went on. Really good stuff here, none of which I have ever heard.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Fantastic, but felt like it lost the plot in the last 25-30%.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Damn! Seems very polarizing - lots of 1 star and 5 star reviews. The 5 star reviews are correct, obviously.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

The cool band your uncool Gen X dad listens to

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Beautiful! This led the way for so many other musicians.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Sonically a lot of it was the exact same, but some classics on here.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Quintessentially 90s. Would probably not listen again, but would be interested in her more popular songs.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

Always reliable. Just some of the best to ever do it.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

Damn. Incredible and so full of life.

Scissor Sisters

2/5

Some really catchy stuff on here (“Mary”) but just not for me.

I See You

The xx

2/5

Unfortunately went into this already knowing I don’t like this band. Not much going on. Only song I remotely enjoyed was "On Hold." This inclusion is baffling to me.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Pretty run-of-the-mill late 60s psychedelic stuff. A little darker than the rest, but not very remarkable to me.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Never been a Beatles guy but there was a lot of great stuff on here.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

As many others have pointed out, he wants to be Prince but does not have the talent to be Prince.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

A lot of substance here, and a pleasure to listen to.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

One of the all time banger albums.

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

This helped me understand why Green Day are as revered as they are. Such a good record.

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Some okay stuff here, but I wouldn't doubt if you could trace today's (mostly) terrible country music to this.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Really good. Great noises on here. Feels like a Rob Zombie movie or Session 9.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

All the people who don't like this are wrong.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Incredibly enjoyable. Really great start to an album... Incredible that there is like no information on it, but it's on this list.

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Pleasant! Very easy listening. Peak of the album for me was the song that plays halfway through.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Some really good stuff on here, just not for me. My enjoyment was around a 3, but I feel like objectively, this is a 4/5 star album.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Kind of unremarkable. I do dig the audio quality, though - I genuinely think it enhances the songs.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

Never listened to this before, but I'm completely floored by it. So fun to listen to - every track is great and the skits are actually funny.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

I see the importance of this and how much is owed to Liz Phair by modern artists, but... you can definitely tell this is the beginning of something in that it's not quite what it could be.