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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	5	2.56	+2.44
Scott 2 Scott Walker	5	2.64	+2.36
Triangle The Beau Brummels	5	2.71	+2.29
Alien Lanes Guided By Voices	5	2.75	+2.25
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	5	2.83	+2.17
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes	5	2.98	+2.02
Hot Shots II The Beta Band	5	3.01	+1.99
Done By The Forces Of Nature Jungle Brothers	5	3.04	+1.96
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	5	3.05	+1.95
Manassas Stephen Stills	5	3.07	+1.93

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	1	2.7	-1.7
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	3	4.3	-1.3
Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood	2	3.11	-1.11

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	5
The White Stripes	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
David Bowie	3	4.33

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Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

5/5

I’d never listened to this album before. Never heard of the band. Very pleasantly surprised.

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4-Star Albums (65)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

1-Star Albums (1)

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...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

First time listening to the whole album.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

This has aged very, very well in my opinion. Much of that is down to Shane’s poetry. And the production. The drum sound kicks ass.

The xx

5/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

I have never—not once—listened to a Bob Marley album in its entirety. I felt neutral about his music. I felt it was written for someone else. I was glad that many people found inspiration, hope, and comfort there. Something’s changed. I loved this album. Listened to it and it seems the perfect music to listen to in these troubled times.

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Fucking fantastic.

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

4/5

I’d never heard of this album. I knew the band’s biggest singles (“The Breakfast Club” was one of my favourite films as a teen in the 80s). I was surprised to see this album here and have such ecstatic reviews from the British music press. I’ll be honest: on my first listen I didn’t like it at all. Might have been my mood, though. So I listened to it a second time last night in bed, and a switch flipped. Loved it. Who knew?

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

Fucking fantastic.

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

Not my thing.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

I liked it well enough. I appreciate its importance.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

A stone cold classic. It’s funny, I was just chatting with a friend at work yesterday about how I completely saturated myself with Zeppelin’s music when I was a teen. I overdid it so much that I couldn’t listen to zeppelin at all for literally decades. He said that he finds Page’s arrangements to be so good that they’re perennially magical to him. When I listened to the album this time, I pushed through memories of singing in the ear of whichever poor girl agreed to last dance with me at a high school dance. Four Sticks was a surprise favourite this time around. And Battle of Evermore. I knew nothing about Tolkien when I first got into this album. I know a lot more LOTR lore now and that stuff really stood out to me. It’s a brilliant album and I’m grateful to hear it with somewhat different ears haha

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

5/5

I’d never listened to this album before. Never heard of the band. Very pleasantly surprised.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

This album is why I’m doing this 1001 albums thing. Exposed to a classic. So much love for this album.

Country Life

Roxy Music

5/5

Another W. Never listened to before. Familiar with Avalon, but not this one. Teen me was familiar with the album cover haha

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

5/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

This album has aged so incredibly well. Prescient as hell. As a friend put it: where is all the good political rock these days?

The Band

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

1999

Prince

4/5

My delicate sensibilities! I forgot how salacious Prince can be.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

Meh.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Meh.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Excellent album to work by. Love the atmosphere.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

It's okay. The hits are bangers. The rest sound like they're stuck in that lead singer's squeaky purgatory.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

I enjoyed this far more than I thought I would. I'm somewhat familiar with Morrissey's work with The Smiths. I respected his talents as a wordsmith but found his singing and stage persona to be a bit too precious. Something about this album hit different. Not sure why.

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Not my usual genre, but I have to respect the talent. Enjoyed the beats and flow.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Queen II

Queen

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Not my thing, though I recognize D’Angelo’s game.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

5/5

Never heard it before. Insane.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Pretty pretty pretty good.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

3/5

I like their following few albums better.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

I was surrounded by fans of this singer and this album at one time. I never gave it a listen, though I heard his version of "Hallelujah" a bunch. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

5/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Sounds eternal.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

5/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Parklife

Blur

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

5/5

The Specials

5/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

5/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

808 State

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

4/5

This one really surprised me. Newman is so affable.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

5/5

The soundtrack of my childhood. Dad loved Elvis. He's growing on me, too LOL

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

4/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

5/5

Another revelation. Holy smokes, what an album. A new favourite.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

5/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

5/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Music

Madonna

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Adele

4/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

I could create a folder for albums like this: Avant-garde or experimental music that was just beyond my tastes growing up but I'm open to listening to now.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

5/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Os Mutantes

5/5

Since following this list, any album I haven't heard that's some combination of psychedelic rock and the avant garde is okay by me. There's just more of it than I ever knew haha

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

5/5

Kenza

Khaled

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5