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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	5	2.77	+2.23
The Man Who Travis	5	3.01	+1.99
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	5	3.09	+1.91
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.13	+1.87
American Beauty Grateful Dead	5	3.24	+1.76
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.27	+1.73
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.28	+1.72
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
The Band The Band	5	3.37	+1.63
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Score Fugees	2	3.69	-1.69
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	2	3.51	-1.51
Surfer Rosa Pixies	2	3.5	-1.5
Rust In Peace Megadeth	2	3.24	-1.24
Bandwagonesque Teenage Fanclub	2	3.06	-1.06
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	2	3.03	-1.03
Future Days Can	2	3	-1

5-Star Albums (31)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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

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More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Formative years album for me. Middle school, Alison koleszar, looking up lyrics to memorize them. I didn’t love all the heavy metal songs but adored the melodic and emotional tunes.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Loved the political track Run Charlie run and also listening more closely to papa was a rolling stone

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Didn’t listen to whole album. Wish I knew the significance of the album aside from its hit status. Hits don’t make a great album in my mind.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Catchy.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Classic sounds. Reminds me of my childhood especially hanging out in Willow.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

5/5

Great unique sounds but have heard so much of them and much of their music sounds similar to me. Curious about the books discussion of the “personal psycho-geographies of apartheid buried in the songs.”

Suicide

4/5

Confused by this album - it's not in my 2006 version of the book!

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Kind of all over the place.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Distinctive sound but not that interesting track to track

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

A one hit wonder album to me. The organ was grating on most tracks. Maybe we are spoiled by all the remasters.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

I completely respect her business acumen and musicianship. Some tunes are catchy and maybe this is an album you have to hear several times to love, but I don’t really get the appeal.

Garbage

4/5

I wasn’t that interested in this album as a teen but it is a great album for me as an adult. It really holds up

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Hard time listening to it due to not being on Spotify, Apple Music etc. listened to a couple tracks on YouTube

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

This grew on me. Fun beats, not too intimidating rap/funk

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Fun songs, many familiar but I didn’t know Marty Robbin’s at all

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Classic. Some of the plotlines in the lyrics don't hold up well though.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Nice riffs, beautiful emotion, interesting songwriting

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Would probably grow on me. Good musicianship. The fuzzy drums are not my favorite sound.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Love the driving rhythms. Not as much a fan of the ballads. Sound feels a bit repetitive by the end of the album

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

I like the drama. Hard to listen to this with new ears though

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

I like the drama. Hard to listen to this with new ears though

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Surprised i didn’t know more of the tracks. Sounded better in the evening. Some tracks hard to get into.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

5/5

The tracks where you can really hear the harmony. Maybe that’s some thing they did in the remaster.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Some great hit tracks. Like the vocals and harmonies. Some songs aren’t that exciting.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Sounds like 2010. Also sounds like their predecessors like bon iver and fleet foxes. Nothing really great for me here except the sound of the era.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Meh. One or two songs I would listen to again. I need to read the significance of this album and why it was included to understand more

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Too much harmonica

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Da Capo

Love

2/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

1977

Ash

3/5

Metallica

4/5

Some 5 star songs.

The Band

5/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

First heard radio free Europe in a tape my dad had in old motorhome he had

The Score

Fugees

2/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

I like this form of percussion better than rock drum percussion. Album gets a little repetitive

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

Nice easy to listen to jazz

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Liked it more than I thought I would

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Liked it more than I thought I would

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Interesting to hear similarities to stereophonic

White Denim

3/5

Good musicians, uninteresting songwriting

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

5/5

Love those millennial rhythms and I had missed this band in high school

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

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

The Kinks

5/5

This was completely not the sound I expected from the kinks

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

5/5

Good diverse ambient album. I know another song by him but was surprised I didn’t hear it on this album

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Ultimate winter nights album

The xx

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

A few duds but overall great

Survivor

Destiny's Child

4/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

Poetic and emotional but too hard to get into the music for me

Violent Femmes

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

I never thought of them as a band appealing to adults but this album is a lot less child-like in content than I realized

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

Traffic

4/5

Never heard this album or band before. Pretty good. Vagabond virgin is kinda questionable politically

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Future Days

Can

2/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

Not sure this album is available anymore, I liked the recent directors cut though

Caetano Veloso

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

5/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Glad I read the reviews, interesting album and sounds but not something I gravitate to

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

2/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Surprised by the production quality being so bad. Was this on purpose?

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

The Doors

5/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Couldn’t access the album on Spotify

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

2/5

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Interesting album- liked it more than I thought I would.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5