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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	5	2.77	+2.23
Fever Ray Fever Ray	5	2.98	+2.02
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds	5	3.1	+1.9
Entertainment Gang Of Four	5	3.26	+1.74
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	5	3.37	+1.63
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.48	+1.52
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	5	3.65	+1.35
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.73	+1.27
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5	3.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan	2	3.39	-1.39
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	2	3.34	-1.34

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

6/10 Just way too long. You could take the singles out, or half of any of the non-single songs, and it would be easier to digest. But when it comes down to it, the chili peppers are some of the best musicians in the business and songs like Sir Psycho Sexy prove it. The moments where the instrumentals take over, or the few songs that aren’t just consistently loud, are welcome.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Pretty good, 8/10. Good singer songwriter Bruce

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

8/10 Good mix of songs, some good storytelling

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

8/10 album It’s hard to find anything to dislike, and it’s an earlier exploration of tonalities that I like in other bands like Radiohead, but overall it was a bit too slow for my tastes. It was good to revisit it.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

7/10 I bet these songs killed in a live show. The solos are great, songwriting is pretty good, but man does Neil’s voice get weird sometimes.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

7/10 because again, it’s just too much

Elvis Presley

5/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Yeah they kick ass, but I can’t stand Axl’s upper register. The hits are hits for a reason, the other songs are very much worth forgetting unless your coked out of your mind at a rock club.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Pretty damn good, and more theatrical than I expected.

The Stooges

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Pretty solid. Gotta love the sound, even if it is a bit one-note. More classics for a good reason.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Pretty solid. Gotta love the sound, even if it is a bit one-note. More classics for a good reason.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Muse’s second or third best, but probably the most focused album they’ve released.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

What a great album. This is my nostalgia

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

Gotta love when good musicians just make goofy music. It’s a great sendup of bands like KISS or The Beach Boys.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

It sounds like an evolutionary step in music. Boxy 90s hip hop beats, overly repetitive songs that are about twice as long as they need to be, and a paint-by-numbers approach to creating some sort of structure. Praise You is far and away the strongest song, largely due to having lyrics longer than four words. The beats are good, but it’s far too much for an album.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

5/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

4/10 Ideas are betrayed by the execution and poor singing. Some stuff is cool, but mostly it’s atonal or inharmonious just to grate on the ears. They might be cool live, but this record does a terrible job capturing it.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

6/10. I can respect that they’re doing it well, but the vibe isn’t my favorite. Another album let down by weak vocals. Psychedelic, but not weird or narratively strong enough.

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Delightful, but honestly too short. I could listen to that for hours.

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

The xx

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

A classic weirdo album, pretty cohesive in terms of the sounds that Beck used while definitely getting out there at times. Fun stuff but not something I can revisit all the time.

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

7/10 A less artsy, more melodic Bjork? Who knew?

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

War

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Pretenders

3/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

It starts and ends on the highest notes. I guess I can see the genius, but the melodies and instrumentation weren’t as strong and memorable as I hoped for. Moonchild in particular dragged on. 6/10

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Soft rock, fusion, good musicianship and easy to listen to. Kind of lounge-esque at points.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Caetano Veloso

4/5

Fever Ray

5/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Garbage

3/5

Good songwriting, but a bit one-note towards the end and the recording quality is atrocious

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

Sounds like underaged drinking in all its glory. It’s just sappy pop songs with guitar dive bombs.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Starts strong but meanders through the middle.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

Nice introspective love songs with some very sharp hooks. There are a few songs that are noticeably weaker than the others but no matter what, the vibes are nice and it’s a lovely album

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5