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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	5	2.97	+2.03
Horses Patti Smith	5	3.3	+1.7
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.31	+1.69
Blur Blur	5	3.33	+1.67
The World is a Ghetto War	5	3.35	+1.65
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.42	+1.58
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	5	3.49	+1.51
Morrison Hotel The Doors	5	3.58	+1.42
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.77	-1.77
Moondance Van Morrison	2	3.7	-1.7
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	1	2.6	-1.6
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	2	3.35	-1.35
Feast of Wire Calexico	2	3.28	-1.28
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye	2	3.21	-1.21
Country Life Roxy Music	2	3.11	-1.11
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	2	3.09	-1.09
The Man Who Travis	2	3.01	-1.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

From bluesy and sexy guitar-driven songs, to sweet and calming acoustic ballads, all the way to anxious, paranoid fuzzy riffs - This album has a little something for everyone.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

The Pixies' raw, emotional, dark and most importantly seminal album. It paved the way for many grunge and alt-rock artists going forward. Every member has their own shining moments on this album. All to say, that there'd be no modern rock without Doolittle.

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

Emotions still running high from the loss of his friend, he couldn't run away from the life he led no matter how much he tried. So Dave Grohl returned under the name of "Foo Fighters", a one man band, and made a masterpiece of an album often considered to be the last breath of the dying but well lived genre of grunge.

1999

Prince

3/5

Sexy, funky, groovy, sensual and fun. Classic Prince. I like it.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Surprisingly average, coming from Tom Petty no less. The more known songs are absolute rock-classics but the rest of the album is just average filler.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

It seems Elvis here is past his prime. Not to say the music is bad, but not as good as one would expect from Elvis himself.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Does anything need to be said? A Timeless Classic.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

As much as I love electronic music, it just... doesn't stand up for itself in any meaningful way.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Equal parts funky and harmonious! Quite polished and refined, and not afraid to get the whole band involved - a very pleasing South African jazz album.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

You just can't help but smile. A neat, cute presentation of 11 sweet little stories in the forms of songs.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Don't listen to much Bob Dylan, but I'd say it's a welcome introduction, if not a little sharp on the ears. It's got blues, folk and ear-pirecing harmonica. It's nice.

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Beautifully experimental! Never really liked the Beatles, just a little bit of Harrison's solo work, so I was very surprised with myself for liking Revolver as much as I did.

S&M

Metallica

4/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

1/5

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Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

2/5

Just... average. Seen better, seen worse. The instrumentation isn't bad per se, but the vocals get annoying quick. And apparently no, Kings of Leon were not better in the beginning.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Dark, raw, but hauntingly true stories about the hardships of life. Accompanied by emotional guitar and sweeping harmonica, it really engulfs you with all it can muster. Bruce's usual ability to be the happy-energetic singer is in no way overshadowing the emotional ride that is "Nebraska".

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Surprised myself with just how much I liked this album. I'm no avid fan of the Beatles, but by giving their albums a fresh and attentive listen, I might just begin to like them. Short-sweet-catchy and wraps up in 30 minutes. What's not to like?

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Fairly calming. Wouldn't say Bossa Nova is Sinatra's genre at heart though. Soothing vocals and guitar nonetheless!

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Even though I don't listen to too much psychedelic rock, no less from the 60's, I fell in love with this album hard. It's very much a shame that people were so indifferent towards it during it's release. They're missing out!

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

Clean, loud, psychedelic and bluesy. Classic Doors!

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

Second south-african jazz album during my stay on this project. They seem to know their stuff when it comes to jazz - and they most certainly deliver. Easy on the ears, but with added layers of various instruments that don't make these songs boring.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Not sure if I'm missing something from the big picture, but it just seems overly corny and too overproduced for it's own good.

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

While it's not a bad album, I'd dare to say it isn't his best work (of what is featured in this compilation). I might get more ideas for my own productions rather than an exceptional listening experience from this.

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

Slow, soulful, beautiful funk. Don't know what else to say.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

When my taste and preferences were still forming towards this dark ocean that is music, I seemed to take a slight liking to hip hip hop/rap. Now having heard this, besides it being not my style anymore, I feel a little disappointed in my long former rap-fanatic self- for not hearing this sooner. Jazzy, smooth rap!

My Generation

The Who

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Produced by Nigel Godrich, he certainly still carries the essence left over from "The Bends" - for better or for worse. A soft rock album with a relatively nice vocal, but at times sounding too much like Thom and the rest of Radiohead. Who's to blame or praise here? I don't know.

Blur

5/5

Perfect.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5