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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.35	+1.65
Young Americans David Bowie	5	3.62	+1.38
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Electric Warrior T. Rex	1	3.54	-2.54
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	1	3.44	-2.44
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	1	3.37	-2.37
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.32	-2.32
The Slider T. Rex	1	3.28	-2.28
The Sensual World Kate Bush	1	3.17	-2.17
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	1	3.16	-2.16
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
Roxy Music Roxy Music	1	3.11	-2.11

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Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Chain of Fools just hits right in the soul and is a can't skip song. This song does indeed make me feel like a natural woman. I'll never forget my first exposure to Aretha, which was the Blues Brother, and she's always been a great staple. Mo-town did so much for music; I don't think most people realize its impact.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Cool start out with the bassline. Truly I don't mind it so far, good balance of sound production.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

I need this album on vinyl. It starts so soft and smooth. This is such an album you can listen to with people but at the same time by yourself and feel so many different emotions. I would walk around my house singing all day if I were Chris Martin. AND IT WAS ALLLLLL YELLOWWWWWW I feel like Coldplay is a band where you either like them or someone told you they weren't cool, so you pretend they aren't good. We Never Change is a song I've never heard, and I'm really happy I finally did. all in all 7.5/10

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Someone protect this adorable little stoner at all costs. Truly music that you feel in the soul and spirit. It will be a sad sad day for country music when this man is no longer with us.

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Pretenders

2/5

It's Joan Jett and the runaways, but British. Tattooed Love Boys Kicked on, and suddenly, I was back playing Guitar Hero at my parent's house. Stop your sobbing, is a great like 80s driving down some desert highway with the top-down song. Brass in Pocket has been forever stuck in my head since I was like 10 and used to watch the VH1 "I Love the 80s" I can still see the music video playing The album starts to decline at the end; I think you just reach a point where the songs sound the same. The guitar on The Wait helps pick back up some of the momentum Overall 5.3/10

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

I have heard this band's name but have never heard a single song, so this should be interesting. I thought it was Billy Corgan off the rip with those soft vocals coming in. "To here knows" when feels like a tame impala song with synth and vocal sounds. Cool sounds on "When you sleep" lead into "I only said" seamlessly. It's a decent album to have as my background music as I get admin tasks done. Reading their background and seeing how they started and who they inspired makes sense!

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

1/5

Sigh, I already feel uneasy about listening to this album. It's probably the hardest listen so far of this challenge. This Woman's work was my only highlight, solely because they used it in an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode. 1/10

Common

4/5

I am familiar with Common the actor and unfamiliar with Common the artist, so I am excited. The opening bass line is sweet, and this is a welcome change compared to the Kate Bush drivel I had to suffer through yesterday. God, I love 2000s hip-hop with a passion. It's just so good on so many layers: the beats, the lyrics, the tempo.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

The Slider

T. Rex

1/5

The xx

3/5

It's a staple album that I think many people know from the hits, myself included. Diving in while a lot of the sound stayed the same throughout the album i never got bored of it like similar albums I have listened to already. Female vocals are executed well, and the instrumental backing makes the song pleasurable for the ears. Basic space was a cool change-up in pacing compared to the songs that got us to this point.

Roxy Music

1/5

It's another band I have zero experience listening to, but let's give it a whirl. I listened through this album and really couldn't tell you anything I remember about it. It blends with some bands from the time period, but other than that. To the pit of Misery.

Stephen Stills

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

So far, this album really hasn't made much of an impression on me. It has some cool sound design, but I feel like this could blend in with any other sound from the time. It's not bad, but it's not something I would seek to put on.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Always a great one, loved this album growing up cause i thought it was so cool to combine two things that shouldn't go together.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I mean....its an album and its a popular one just not my cup of tea with the cadence and vocals.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Its like the who mixed with the kinks and the monkees. It was cool hearing Kick out the Jams originally thinking it was a RATM song and not a cover.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

1/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Metallica

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Overall, it was definitely interesting; I didn't listen to the whole album. It reminded me of the Beatles or Pink Floyd when they would "go weird" moments.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Much like sublime Nirvana is one of those bands that I feel like we got a glimpse at something amazing and unfortunately it was ended before reaching its full potential......but at the same time is that express window what makes it so impactful?

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

It's a good choice for the mood I'm in today, I just want something nice and relaxed in the background. Take 5, having been used in so many different pieces of media, was welcoming and warm. Overall a solid album that I wouldn't hate owning on vinyl

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Please stop making me listen to this man.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

Ziggy Stardust forever <3

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

Well, this definitely starts off super heavy and definitely understand why they are as popular as they are

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

1/5

Just not a fan of his music and I cant tell 100% why, just one of those underwhelming voices and music combos for me

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Boston

5/5

The spaceship is an upside down guitar and i never knew this until the internet told me. Foreplay/longtime is such a cool song but it bothers me at times cause the beginning is so sick and the bass line is so fat and then it just disappears

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Jenny was a friend of mine is such a great track and I feel like it gets overshadowed cause this album is full of bangers.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Bon Scott forever <3

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Opening right up with Highway star has me wanting to play rockband again! A solid band for the time such a shame they were put into the smoke on the water box

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

didnt listen

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

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

The Kinks

2/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

1/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

More Specials

The Specials

2/5

Kinda cool to hear like the early influences of what seems like ska, did get a little repetitive

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

This felt really slow and didnt have anything that really stood out, kind of reminded me of bad radiohead.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

1/5

Of course, the last album I listened to I talked about bad Radiohead, and now I am given a Radiohead album to spite me. But here we go. Couldnt finish it.