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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Shleep Robert Wyatt	4	2.5	+1.5
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.65	+1.35
Kid A Radiohead	5	3.71	+1.29
Survivor Destiny's Child	4	2.86	+1.14
Ingenue k.d. lang	4	2.94	+1.06
Sail Away Randy Newman	4	2.97	+1.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	1	3.62	-2.62
Zombie Fela Kuti	1	3.47	-2.47
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	1	3.45	-2.45
Inspiration Information Shuggie Otis	1	3.27	-2.27
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	1	3.11	-2.11
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	1	3.02	-2.02
London Calling The Clash	2	3.98	-1.98
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.77	-1.77
Next The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	1	2.71	-1.71
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.64	-1.64

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.75
Radiohead	4	4.25

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Artist	Ratings
Bob Dylan	1, 4

5-Star Albums (7)

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Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Is it great? I dunno. Is it super fun? Hell yeah.

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1-Star Albums (8)

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Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

Probably great punk music, but punk music isn't for me.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

One of the GOATs

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Some real bangers on here but also some songs that today sound like a parody of silly folk music.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

pretty great. eric clapton is a bit of a trash human now unfortunately. :(

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Great album but not every song is a banger.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Nice slice of 90s brit rock.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Solid thrashy metal. Gotta love Lemmy.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

1/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

High school me would have loved this. I'm not quite as emo anymore but still a fun listen.

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

Okay I kind of didn't like it at first but then the math rock of it all hit me. Feels like the beginning part of Tool without it ever getting really good. But I still kinda enjoyed it.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Classic. Bowie rules.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Takes me back. Fun hippie chill music.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

1/5

Didn't care for it. Some tracks sounded like elevator music to me.

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

The Stone Roses

2/5

Didn't do it for me. Kinda boring.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

So good!

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Classic. Lovely. Would listen again.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

I just don't get it.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Great for background / concentration but not something I'd come back to often.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Banger after banger

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Great music but could have done without the interludes.

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Meh. Fun pop but kinda mediocre in retrospect.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

I'd heard a bunch of these tracks but never internalized the name Donovan before. The popular songs are kinda fun. The rest is pretty hippy dippy meh.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

This shit rules and must have blown people's minds in '78.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

Weird pop amazingness

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

2/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Meh.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Fun. Old.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

funk personified. so fun.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

This might be great after the 10th listen but was tough on first go.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

solid but nothing in here grabs my attention

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Miriam Makeba

3/5

old school, lovely, fun

The Doors

4/5

Classic. Probably more 3 stars but The End deserves a bump up.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Gotta love Jackie Jomp Jomp

Boston

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Boy, Brian Wilson was going through some shit, huh?

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Classic and good heavy-ish metal.

The Specials

2/5

ska ska ska ska

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

fun throwback

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Is it great? I dunno. Is it super fun? Hell yeah.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Listen, Roundabout is an unequivocal banger. The rest of the album is a mess. 5 stars for 8:30 of greatness, 1 star for the rest. 3 stars it is.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

one of the best

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

so anxiety provoking. hard to deny the talent but a tough listen.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

3.5 for me but will round down.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

this album rules

4/5

3/5

4/5

k.d. lang

4/5

ethereal!

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

classic!

2112

Rush

3/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

this album is fine

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

1/5

wanky

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

started great, ended meandering and so boring.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

3 just for Jump and Hot for Teacher. Otherwise pretty meh.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

4/5

weird glorpy music that I kind of loved

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

1/5

i don't get it

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

more like 3.5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

good vibes.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

1/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

vibey but weird

Pretenders

3/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Le Tigre

2/5

punk is just not for me

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

2/5

maybe if I was on a lot of drugs

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

1/5

ugh pretty bad

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

a certified banger or two and I generally like a lot but have to ding for several tracks of absolute garbage

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

some good vibes but generally booooring

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

1/5

just... so... boring. why is this on here?

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

really 3.5 but rounding up since some of it's so good. but man could I do without the interstitial nonsense.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

3.5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

1/5

miserable

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

one of the GOAT albums but some tracks don't quite hit

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

immature and brilliant

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

1 extra star for white light / white heat. the rest is unlistenable.