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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.18	+1.82
American Gothic David Ackles	4	2.48	+1.52
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.5	+1.5
Born To Be With You Dion	4	2.62	+1.38
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Night Life Ray Price	1	2.81	-1.81
Orbital 2 Orbital	1	2.7	-1.7
Remedy Basement Jaxx	1	2.67	-1.67
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	2	3.53	-1.53
The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe	2	3.45	-1.45
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.39	-1.39
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	2	3.33	-1.33
Fun House The Stooges	2	3.27	-1.27
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	3	4.09	-1.09
Smile Brian Wilson	2	3.03	-1.03

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I read that a couple tracks were used as inspiration by Kurt Cobain to make “Smells like Teen Spirit”. It makes sense, Doolittle covers similar imagery that 90s grunge is centered around. Lots of guitar, drums, bass. Very standard alt-rock. Reminds me of Irish punk rock a little, maybe that makes sense since I read that these guys did better in Europe than America throughout the late 80s and 90s.

It’s interesting that Winthrop Sargeant didn’t really consider this music jazz. At the time, perhaps it took jazz in a whole new direction, but listening to it now, I know it as pretty textbook jazz music.

This album has been called “frat-style hip-hop” and it’s also one of the first albums to turn sampling into an art of its own. But I feel like many of the songs blended together with a couple songs that stood out on their own

Maybe I was preoccupied but the music didn’t stand out to me.

Cool to find a sample that’s used in Kanye’s “Power”