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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
I Against I Bad Brains	5	2.93	+2.07
Killing Joke Killing Joke	5	2.99	+2.01
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	5	3.06	+1.94
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.29	+1.71
The Specials The Specials	5	3.29	+1.71
The Next Day David Bowie	5	3.29	+1.71
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen	5	3.32	+1.68
Bossanova Pixies	5	3.37	+1.63
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	1	3.05	-2.05
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	1	2.92	-1.92
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	1	2.92	-1.92
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	1	2.89	-1.89
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.88	-1.88
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	1	2.85	-1.85
Take Me Apart Kelela	1	2.76	-1.76
90 808 State	1	2.69	-1.69
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	1	2.67	-1.67

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	5	4.6
Black Sabbath	3	5
Led Zeppelin	3	5
David Bowie	6	4.33
Queen	2	5
Pink Floyd	2	5
AC/DC	2	5
Oasis	2	5
The Clash	2	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Brian Eno	1, 4

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I'm a sucker for a bit of dad rock. Some iconic tunes on this one as well

Not usually my sort of thing. Has its high points though, especially the cover of Black Steel

I like the way this album flows, it feels like you're at a party. Unfortunately it's the sort of party where the vibe isn't for me (although I can appreciate how people are having a good time) and I want to go home and watch a film

Been listening to this album for years. Pure melodrama in the best possible way

It was fine. Nice background music but not doing anything to stand out for me

This album might finally get me into shoegaze

I'm really sorry. I really want to like freeform jazz, but I think my brain just isn't programmed for it

A classic that defined the Madchester sound going into the 90s. Only loses a star as there's some filler in between the bangers

This album was highly influential to the sound of the 80s, but apart from a few songs it did very little for me

Some nice funk, but derivitive of better stuff from the 70s. I do like some of the later hits they put out

This is what I love about this project. This is the sort of album with universal acclaim that I've put off listening to because it's "not my thing", but I enjoyed the vast majority of this album, especially towards the latter half

A transitional album for Bowie, and yet he still managed to influence a whole movement of established artists performing soul tracks. 3.5

This is so far outside my wheelhouse I don't know where to start. I gave it a chance, but it does nothing for me. Good for you if you enjoy it, I just can't fathom how it made the list

Easy 5, as with any Floyd album from DSOTM to this

An album I'd never heard of before, and I loved it

Feels wrong to give this the same rating as the Kiss album I had yesterday, but that just narrowly avoided being a 2, and this just narrowly missed being a 4

This is peak Funk-era RHCP. I happen to like some of their later stuff too, but if you are if the "I prefer old-school chilis" type, then this is probably the album you're thinking of

An album I'd never very have discovered without this project, and one I enjoyed

I just can't in good conscience give an album a 5 if they've mixed out the bass

As a lifelong Hysteria supremacist, I must admit this album is also a banger

Still can't fully get on board with 10+ minute long improvised jazz, but this was more accessible and enjoyable to me than most I've heard

Felt like I was going to enjoy this after the first fee tracks, but then began to drag. This album doesn't do anything that wasn't done better dozens of times in the decade that preceded it

Arguably the greatest and most important Reggae album ever released

Put this on, grab your wine, chocolates and Bridget Jones paperback, and let the cats wonder why you're crying again

When this came through I was sceptical...an album of bongo music? Then as I listened and read up, I realised this inadvertently bacame the jumping off point for hip hop. So many great beats and influential elements

It's fashionable to hate Oasis these days, but if you were in the UK when this came out, you'd know how much of a cultural impact it had

In a period when music was getting edgier, and bands who would redefine genres were being formed, Tipper Gore and the PMRC were losing their minds and trying to control what people could listen to. This is the milquetoast kinda stuff they had in mind

And the award for most unexpected "oh wait I actually know this song, it's a bop" goes to...

I'm sorry, but this is the most not-for-me album ever released. I'm usually opposed to anything with "post" in the genre, and this is the epitome of why

One of those where I'm like "oh yeah I've heard of these, I'm sure I know some of their songs" and then I don't, and the album bores me

This is the first jazz album that was ve kinda vibed with. Usually it's straight over my head. Not sure if this process has improved my perception, or if my recent run of bad albums has altered my standards

I remember back in 2010, after growing up with the big rock burst of the 90s-00s, I went off new music because it felt like every album that the critics recommended was a boring, atmospheric snoozefest. This is the exact sort of thing I mean

Such an odd album. Every song is good, but every single one overstays its welcome by about a minute. Would be a strong 4 to light 5 if every song was shorter

One of those albums that make me feel gaslit. Highly praised but it's a bad version of father and son followed by boring generic songs. Extra point just because some of the bass lines are decent