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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Heavy Weather Weather Report	5	2.99	+2.01
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.26	+1.74
Court And Spark Joni Mitchell	5	3.35	+1.65
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63
Frank Amy Winehouse	5	3.45	+1.55
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.49	+1.51
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.61	+1.39
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.63	+1.37
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
London Calling The Clash	2	3.98	-1.98
Parallel Lines Blondie	2	3.76	-1.76
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.28	-1.28
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	2	3.25	-1.25
Traffic Traffic	2	3.08	-1.08

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American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

I enjoy the way this album is able to recontextualize covers. It makes me wish I had a stronger appreciation for the originals. Give my love to rose and Bridge over Troubled Water made me cry at 10am so thats pretty cool

Parallel Lines

Blondie

2/5

Meh. Nostalgic, and I could see it was occasionally crunchy / more than just straightforward rock, but not handsome enough to tempt me

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

fun! reminded me of Eloise. Musically a nice mix of jazz / neo-soul that feels accessible -- really great to listen to. Lyrically, often snarky and judgemental. October Song was esp fun, I like lullaby of birdland

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Such a great album. ofc the tracks I love continue to be amazing, but I was kinda shocked by how great some of the other tracks like Hood Politics and i are. One of those albums that's just so cohesive and strong as a unit.

London Calling

The Clash

2/5

Musically, I think this is supposed to be adventurous (incorporating reggae / experimental elements) but it just doesn't feel like that in 2024. Lyrically, I wasnt a fan -- anti-establishment in the most literal, obvious way, and lacking humanity imo.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

I kind of liked it. This entire process is making me realize how much vocal mixing / balance matters to me -- the vocals are obviously the main thing here, but I don't really particularly love them. The band sounds amazing but they're constantly covered

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

I actually really enjoyed this. Experimental in a very tasteful way, almost whimsical. Hard to keep myself from hopping along

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

didn't do much for me. good piano playing but felt kind of kitschily classical almost. I think I'd definitely like it more on a relisten though

My Generation

The Who

4/5

I liked it! more rhythmically interesting than London Calling IMO. it's definitely a product of its time

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

It was good! reminded me a lot of Haley Heynderickx, but less narrative + my psychedelic (maybe that just means it's folk). Id relisten to the albums

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Definitely a bop, but wasn't incredibly engaging / interesting

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Yeah it's good, but not super amazing

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

this was more like a 4.5, I really enjoyed it + I'd listen to it unprompted, if the mood was right. I felt at times like I was listening to a Lorde album though I couldnt really express why. Her voice also grew on me a lot

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

boooo it's better than regular Christmas music but that's a low bar

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

good but not life-changing beep boop music. I wonder if my understanding of this music as whimsical comes from the fact that the sounds are so funny

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

I think I have to re listen later. some really fun songs (Heroes, Beauty and the Beast) but mostly mid

Traffic

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

for me this was all about the lyrics. the music is beautiful but in a way that feels distinctly secondary to the lyrically content -- almost like it's poetry with accompaniment. the lyrics are great though so

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

5/5

Funky! Jaco good

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Feels too much like easy listening lounge music for my taste (which I guess is kinda her background). Similar to the lyrics -- felt very generically lounge-y. Her voice is beautiful though

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

Really good, everything on the album was this interesting prog-y thing but very accessible and fun to listen to.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

I need to meditate more on why I have a hard time with electronic music like this. one thought is, if you look at what timescales the melody/harmony repeats, most of the variance in the song is explained by these loud, repetitive, short cycles, and very little changes between cycles. Im also sometimes willing to give bands like this a pass if their sound design is unusual or interesting. I found most of the synths here grating.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Pretty great! Actually feels like Indie Pop -- definitely accessible and uses rock textures, but has some fun imagery and this fun almost macabre aesthetic. and isnt afraid of dissonance

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

It sounds like Talking Heads. Im definitely happy to listen to it, but it didn't particularly excite me. though I will say, the lyrical content is more fun than I expected based on the hits

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

FJM but less abstract and sterile. Loved some of the punchy lyrics e.g. "pop and rocks and cyanide". Also enjoyed thinking about the way it processes anger and how it interacts with gender

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

2/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

This album is insufferable for reasons Im not sure I completely understand. It feels like "world music" but done in a kind of white savior-ish way. But maybe I'm just primed to think things like this are problematic -- apparently it did bring hip-hop to new audiences in Britain, which is great

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5