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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	5	3.2	+1.8
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.31	+1.69
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.43	+1.57
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.53	+1.47
So Peter Gabriel	5	3.55	+1.45
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.58	+1.42
Illmatic Nas	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59

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Stevie Wonder	2	5

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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Woah, another treasure that I missed. The rap is crisp and clever, the beats and music are inventive and interesting, a real masterpiece that I never heard until now.

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Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

It was life changing in 1986, when I found a cheap cassette in the re it’d store at the mall. I studied every riff on this record. Magical.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Wow, I really missed it the first go-round on this one! Thoughtful, tough, vulnerable, melodic … will rework to this one!

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Of course, it’s seminal. I never noticed how expertly produced it is. Still, When the Levee Breaks …

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

I’m embarrassed that this album disappointed me when I bought it in the early 2000s because it wasn’t enough like OK Computer. It’s delicate and powerful, and reveals more details in each listen.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Love Booker T, but it didn’t do it for me

Peter Gabriel

5/5

I don’t think I ever listened carefully to Mercy Street before, wow, atmospheric, emotional, powerful.

Metallica

4/5

Loved it more than expected. The hits were only the beginning., Some okay fast, thrash songs, too.

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Great guitar playing, cool songs, highly recommend

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Did not love. I remember the hits, and they were okay, but the other songs… they are talented people, but goes didn’t do it for me.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Good record, liked Parachutes better.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I listened to this one twice, one sheet the other. Clever, catchy music; the pointed yet hopeful lyrics; the range of emotions covered. A straight up masterpiece.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Great jams, super talented musicians, loved this, unexpected pleasure

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

A solid record, pretty cool songs, once I adjusted to Lou’s voice I liked it

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Good album, but Hurt drives this into great territory

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

A solid record, with cool sounds and neat melodies. I don’t think I appreciated the guitar work in New Order before.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Really enjoyed it, full of clever music

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

A classic

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

A classic: an inventive, funny, charming love story about robots. There’s a reason “ Do You Realize?” is the state song of Oklahoma.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Cool record, Karen O’s vocals are spectacular and the music behind it is shifting and interesting

Guero

Beck

4/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

As great as I remembered. A feast of sounds and imagery, coming together with real soul to it. Love.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

How did I miss this one? Cool songs, great lyrics, melodic and playful. I will return to this one.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

Solid Attractions record, a few bangers, overall a fun listen

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Loved it! I never listened to much early Dan, but this is a terrific record.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Loved it, always fun, but wow the first and last song go on forever!!

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Great vibe, classic tunes, was great to listen to but I won’t return to it.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

A fun listen

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

A really great record, atmospheric without being gloomy

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Boy howdy, I mean to tell ya, that blew chunks.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

I never listened to this before. It’s what Limp Bizkit is shooting for: a seamless connection between 90s metal and 90s rap. It’s executed well, but it isn’t for me: I’m too long in the tooth to enjoy adolescent rage.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Perfect from start to finish. Even the long jam Sex Machine was fun to listen to.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

It’s interesting and kinda clever, but it left me cold

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Just as wonderful as I remembered. An American anthology of love, life, loss …. Still resonates almost 50 years later.

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

A solid enjoyable dance record

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Woah, another treasure that I missed. The rap is crisp and clever, the beats and music are inventive and interesting, a real masterpiece that I never heard until now.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

A good Pixies record

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

I forgot how full of interesting sounds and songs this record is.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Still moving, visionary, sweeping, beautiful. I think it’s the best Bowie record (apologies to Ziggy Stardust and Blackstar)

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

What a joyous, fun sound, with many hippie flavors and textures. And Bang a Going and Jeepster always deliver.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

One of the finest albums in the history of recorded music. Stevie’s lyrics were never sharper, his voice never clearer, the music never more interesting and gorgeous. When I need instant joy, I turn to side 1 and 2 of this double album; it solves all my problems. I appreciate the jams like Black Man and Ngiculeta more now than I did when I was younger and only wanted the pop songs.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Not bad, interesting Neil Yoong cover

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

5/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

A solid, thoughtful, interesting record. My daughter loves it. As a person who’s been through a divorce, I could not listen to it twice.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

What a voice! She really gives a lot in each reading of a Gershwin tune here, often breathing life into old source material.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

I was bowled over by this record: playful and inventive, rockish and jazzy, all held together by Miles’ interesting trumpet lines. Awesome.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

All of my friends loved this when it came out, but I never listened to it. It was like a very 80s brain of a Velvets album, and I enjoyed it

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

It’s an enjoyable, solid 70s Beach Boys record. There are some real gems: Til I Die and Surf’s Up are obvious, but Feel Flows, Long Promised Road, and Disney Girls are classics as well.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Cool music, some of it hasn’t aged well, I certainly didn’t appreciate it at the time.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

What brilliant tunes with amazing production … imagine what Buddy would have been like in 1967…

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

Really interesting, an unusual collage of prog rock, metal, pop music, and French vocals.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

I think I bought this one as a record in 1984, and it has what Simply Red does not: a lot of fun! Totally Motown-derived, but what’s not to love about Motown? Very 80s production, but it was the 80s, so there’s that.