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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	5	3.12	+1.88
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	1	2.83	-1.83
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.65	-1.65
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.42	-1.42
Cloud Nine The Temptations	2	3.41	-1.41
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	1	2.28	-1.28
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	2	3.17	-1.17
Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré	2	3.13	-1.13
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	2	3.12	-1.12
Drunk Thundercat	2	3.12	-1.12
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	2	3.04	-1.04

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Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

1/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

The Cars

4/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

5/5

It's unfortunate that subsequent albums didn't stick to this playbook, but to have had a single album this good, who am I to complain?

Play

Moby

4/5

I'd have a hard time doing a complete playthrough of Play these days, but if you include the B sides (they're like an entire second album), between the two you could make a decent album. It was something for '99, but the DJs that grew from this are making better stuff

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

2/5

Inoffensive to have on in the background while making dinner, but given the choice (on what feels similar) give me 3 Feet High and Rising

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

As someone who's always had a soft spot in their heart for Come On Eileen and has listened to some of DMRs other stuff and thought it was fair, this is the first one that's really got me questioning the top 1001. Lightning Bolt and Adam & The Ants were dogshit but I could see them in certain circles or to widen perspectives, but the basis for the stuff on this DMR album can be heard so much better elsewhere. It's fine and I don't mind it, but this could be the top 10001 and wouldn't deserve an appearance. I'll give it a 2 because again, it's not awful or even not to my taste, it's just not good.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

It's nice to have on - you hit play and kind of forget that it's on. Maybe you had to be involved in this scene at the time to really appreciate it, but 39 years later it doesn't feel particularly groundbreaking or interesting.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

1999

Prince

3/5

Funky, liked it more than I expected.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

2/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Not my typical fare, but while there's a lot of noise there generally seems to be a point to it. I'm on board.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

I've hit most of the Steely Dan catalog but hadn't done a playthrough of this whole album for some reason previously - better than I expected. Always been a My Old School fan, but a good album all around

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

It's really an excellent 42 minutes of music. I don't blame Coldplay for wanting to conquer the world, but for my taste this album makes me wonder what they could've been if they'd been fulfilled making great simple music. I guess look at the Kings of Convenience as an alternate timeline for Coldplay following Parachutes. But it's a pretty timeless album for me.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

It's a fine soul album. I wouldn't consider it a classic and won't hurry to put it back on the stereo. I don't think it's one of their best. The first song listed on the album cover is I Heard It Through the Grapevine and I was hopeful to hear something that I hadn't before, but compared to Marvin or Gladys (whose versions both preceded this one) I don't know why they bothered.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Some decent stuff here - not an everyday listen, but I hadn't visited this in years. Can definitely recognize some of the groundwork for what became New Order.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5