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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
Songs The Lord Taught Us The Cramps	4	2.84	+1.16
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	4	2.84	+1.16
This Nation’s Saving Grace The Fall	4	2.89	+1.11
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	4	2.92	+1.08
London Calling The Clash	5	3.96	+1.04
Truth And Soul Fishbone	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	1	3.51	-2.51
Oar Alexander 'Skip' Spence	1	2.46	-1.46
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	2	3.33	-1.33

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Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Really just Under the Bridge...

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

One of my personal favorites...

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

A little dated, hasn't held up amazingly well. Musically repetitive, but falling closer to the side of thematic rather than tedious. Relatively light once you get past Big Iron.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Short, nothing amazing today, but revolutionary at the time.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

You know what, these guys might be pretty good...

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

My favorite thing about Spotify's AI-fueled DJ-X was that it will start off with something like: "Yo it's DJ-X, I see you listening to some Kendrick Lamar and Warren Zevon*, but Ima stretch your boundaries, maybe play a little something by bands you haven't heard before. Let's kick it off with the Beatles." I've heard of them X, maybe once or twice. *mispronounced as Zeh-von, instead of Zee-von, but I digress.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Ms. Robinson and Hazy Shade of Winter at the very end. Experimental in the safest way possible, trying something, but only tentatively.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

An all-timer.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Timeless album, would be critically acclaimed and commercially successful if released in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 10s, or 20s. Enduring legacy that is still popularly used today. All that being said, the second half of the album drops off significantly, before petering out.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

Some albums really shouldn't be made. I had never heard of it before, but in reading the background it seems exploitative at best. As an album it is disjointed and weak. Not sure how it even made it to such a list, but... here we are.

Django Django

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

First half: heavy; second half - cools considerably. Still a great, it's plainly obvious on even the most cursory of listens why it launched lifelong careers.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Right in my wheelhouse, classic album from a pivotal period in my life.

The Velvet Underground

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

1/5

Not my cup of tea, but at least it's several hours long... Fortunately, I was able to get the "expanded" edition, which has a whole additional volume featuring sliiiightly different variations of the same f'n song back-to-back-to-back. It's great... But I listened, so who's really the fool?