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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Guero Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	5	3.5	+1.5
Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane	5	3.52	+1.48
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.52	+1.48
Arrival ABBA	5	3.52	+1.48
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.56	+1.44
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	5	3.63	+1.37
Live At The Regal B.B. King	5	3.67	+1.33
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.67	+1.33
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott	4	2.71	+1.29

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Zombie Fela Kuti	1	3.47	-2.47
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz	1	3	-2
Fire Of Love The Gun Club	1	2.99	-1.99
Spiderland Slint	1	2.97	-1.97
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	2	3.78	-1.78
Bummed Happy Mondays	1	2.65	-1.65
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	1	2.49	-1.49
My Generation The Who	2	3.41	-1.41
Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers	1	2.39	-1.39
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38

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Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Classic, but not my favorite style of music.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Great album. Amazing how many songs on it were popular singles that I know well already.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Love David Bowie. Fun to hear this album all the way through.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

classic!

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

fun! lots of gems in there.

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Such a fun album.

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Surprising. Felt like the music could have come from almost any time period, not specifically the 90s. Was fun to listen through - never had heard the whole album before.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

So much more instrumental than the hit songs I knew. It was a fun listen.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Definitely a fun ride. I enjoy metal, and this one had some bangers, but not something I usually keep on the regular rotation these days.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

1/5

Not for me.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Definitely surprising. I enjoyed how much more instrumental it was than I had anticipated - almost a jazz album. Really enjoyed it.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Really great. Lots of hits and fun nostalgic listen.

Spiderland

Slint

1/5

Not a fan. It felt boring most of the time. I could tell where sometimes their sound felt like it might have been an influence for future musicians, but overall didn’t enjoy listening.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Great album by a great man!

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Great album. Puts me in a very pensive mood. I remembering listening to this when it came out and it was defining for that year of my life.

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Shuggie Otis

2/5

Not really my kind of music.

GREY Area

Little Simz

3/5

I enjoyed it. Nice to see a female artist grace the list. Never heard of her before but enjoyed her wordsmithing.

The Stone Roses

3/5

It’s ok. Kind of easy listening background music. I thought I caught a few ear worms, but nothing too captivating.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Love this album. Can listen to it all day.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

What a great album. Loved to listen to it. Will listen again.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

pretty quintessential pop. Easy to listen to, and obviously recognize a lot of the singles. Not my favorite thing to listen to regularly, but see the appeal.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Delightful ambient music.

California

American Music Club

3/5

Couldn't find the album on spotify, but listened to their album San Francisco. It was alright.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Pretty excellent. I had listened to it a bunch when I was a teenager so remembered a lot of it, but forgot how bluesy some of it go. But yeah, lots of classics.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Nice to hear some of the hits mixed in with songs I’ve never heard. Not totally my thing, but was amused by some of the more orchestral pieces.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

It's interesting and I appreciate the interludes. I don't find myself too compelled by the songs, but appreciate it for what it is.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

It's good. I've heard a lot of it before, but was cool to hear all the songs. But not something I am dying to listen to on repeat.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Funny how I knew a lot of these songs without knowing who they were by. Fun album. Super retro and hippie vibes.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

fun!

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Fun. I enjoy Steely Dan, but wasn't really blown away by the album.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Love this album!

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

great music - don't love the intersticial chit chat, but it's culturally relevant.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

full of fun songs. Really enjoyed it.

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Eh. One good song, but surprisingly not into the rest. Weird mix of sounds. Not for me.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

Fun!

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

Eh. Punk is alright, but not really my thing.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

fun. not my jam, but fun to hear.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

It's fine. I don't feel too attached to it.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

That was nice! I enjoyed it a lot. Would listen again.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

It's good for what it is, but I just don't care about it.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Kind of had Moby vibes. It was ok, but more like background music to me.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

1/5

honestly hated it. Couldn't wait to stop listening. Just a cacophony of uninteresting noise.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Fun! I had never heard it before in its entirety and it was a fun listen.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

fun. good songs on there. Overall, not what I want to listen to on the regular, but a classic.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Loved it. Kind of spooky 80s. Into it.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

1/5

not a punk rock fan. The lyrics feel a little problematic. Not going to finish the album.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

delightful. just the best.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

love it. used to listen to it when it came out so have fond memories and enjoy relistening to it.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Fine. Not my favorite genre, but was pleasant enough.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Sort of a downmarket Nora Jones. Also fine, but not like, super.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

fine. not in love with it.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Excellent album. Enjoyed it a lot.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Good stuff. I enjoyed it, but isn't something I want to hear on the regular.

Achtung Baby

3/5

It's fine. I don't get that excited about U2 though.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

1/5

Not much interest in scream rock.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Not that interesting.

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

The Kinks

3/5

enjoyable!

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Lots of classics. easy to listen to. Like it.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Fun, funky, but not really my style.

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

I dunno. Maybe too noodly for me. At times it felt like it was just jazz, but other times it was just background and uninteresting.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Such an amazing voice. Enjoyed listening, but probably not going to listen to it all the time. Fun though!

Joan Armatrading

4/5

I like it. Sort of a funky upbeat Tracy Chapman style, but really enjoyable.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Love it.

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Boring.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Fun!

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

1/5

So boring. I couldn't wait for it to be over.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

I mean, it's good, but not my speed. A little noodly at points.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

It's fine, but I didn't find myself really captivated by any of the songs. The vibe is enjoyable, but kind of background music.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Fun. Not my speed, but was nice beats. Might be more fun if I knew French.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Enjoyable. Fun beats and a David Bowie-esque voice.

Guero

Beck

5/5

love it.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

kind of boring actually.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

pretty great! brings back memories and is full of the sounds of my youth.

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Fun, but nothing very familiar to me. Would listen again but nothing really caught me.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

I mean, it's fun, funky, and I can't help but move my body to the beat. Not something I am deeply satisfied by, but good for background.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Really fun

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Classic

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

So good

Boston

5/5

Love this whole album