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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Arular M.I.A.	5	2.83	+2.17
Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise	5	2.88	+2.12
Like Water For Chocolate Common	5	2.95	+2.05
Vento De Maio Elis Regina	5	3.01	+1.99
A Seat at the Table Solange	5	3.01	+1.99
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	5	3.09	+1.91
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo MC Solaar	5	3.09	+1.91
Drunk Thundercat	5	3.12	+1.88
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention	5	3.14	+1.86

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	1	3.27	-2.27
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	2	3.47	-1.47
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	2	3.38	-1.38
Autobahn Kraftwerk	2	3.09	-1.09
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	2	3.08	-1.08
Smile Brian Wilson	2	3.06	-1.06
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	2	3.02	-1.02
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	2	3.01	-1.01

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Artist	Albums	Average
Common	2	5

5-Star Albums (24)

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Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

5/5

Not on Apple Music absolute pain to find the best place to listen BUT it’s perfect so it was worth every moment.

1 likes

Arular

M.I.A.

5/5

Pop rocks kind of ear candy

1 likes

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Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Love the live elements. The screaming and the asides to the audience are a great addition. Highlights are the titular How Blue Can You Get? and You Upset Me Baby (I am upset about the fake out at the beginning). The first slow point being Worry, Worry is wild and it kicks right back up after. Good back to front.

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Guitar forward album! Worked very often, highlights for me being Friction and Torn Curtain, however! I Did Not like the titular Marquee Moon, found the rhythm to monotonous and headache inducing.

1999

Prince

4/5

Iconic! Fun! Could be repetitive, sometimes to great effect sometimes not. Highlights include Little Red Corvette and D.S.M.R. Every time I would doubt a song he’d sing the title and I’d be back tbh.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Listening to this was a little bit just discovering the album around No Surprises which has been in my head since listening. I fear I loved it, definitely felt like a cohesive piece.

War

3/5

It’s fine. Highlights are Sunday Bloody Sunday and Drowning Man.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Absolute classic, perfect vibe. Would be dishonest to do anything under 5 after listening to so many of the songs for years.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

He’s so horny the crack of dawn has to watch out for him. Three parts jazz album, one part comedy routine? Definitely a vibe, but I don’t think I’ll return to it anytime soon.

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Highlights: Poppies, When I Dream, Strange House in the Snow

Common

5/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

I can’t decide if rage against the machine is a vibe that I’m just not totally clicked with or too cringe for me to live through so I will be positive.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

5/5

Not on Apple Music absolute pain to find the best place to listen BUT it’s perfect so it was worth every moment.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

Hmm

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

A non-neutral 3. I was surprised how much I liked but the album was so. Long. Was eager for every song to be over by the end.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Boston

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Truly a classic. Life On Mars? has been getting stuck in my head on and off since listening.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

2/5

Loved moments at a time but couldn’t stay with entire songs (especially when they can be so long!). Can’t say I could recommend.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

Maybe caught me on a bad day but I got annoyed.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

I dunno

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Very pleasant but unmemorable

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

Another album that I enjoyed that’s not on Apple Music 😠 I do find it funny describing all these woes when he seems like the jerk every time.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Vibey

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

5/5

Lovely. Calmed me down and put me in a better mood after work.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

At its best catchy, at its worst repetitive

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Wonderful - I was concerned about the 18 min song dragging then loved it all

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Sometimes the bongos were too quiet in the mix - I wanted consistently bongo forward from Bongo Rock. Is the soundtrack for Ocean’s Eleven etc. related at all to this album? I shan’t look it up.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Dark and lumbering

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

5/5

Peace and love on planet earth! The world is beautiful!

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Had fun on the first half

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

Why not

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

2/5

It’s a lot

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

1/5

It’s a Lot

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Too Long even before all of the bonus tracks. And I liked the bonus tracks better.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fun and annoying(?) in a good way

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

It’s wild how representative Take Me Out is of the sound of the album.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

Lovely lovely lovely

Drunk

Thundercat

5/5

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

The hits are hits - everything else is pretty good

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Songs are good but all of them outstay their welcome

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

First album on this list to inspire nostalgia in me

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

Well done but not my vibe

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

The xx

3/5

The delivery and production works for me for a song at a time - as an album it drags

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

My alley! This is right up it!

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

4/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Impeccable! I was concerned that the rest of the album wouldn’t be able to live up to the title track and I’m excited to be so wrong! The urge to sing along is irresistible.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Pitch perfect 80s new wave fair

The Libertines

3/5

Swear I listened to this album just this morning but can hardly remember. I know The Man Who Would Be King pinged for me.

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

That air sure is solid. Lovely throughout

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Preferred the back half of the album

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

I liked it! Had a “gather ‘round for story time with peepaw” vibe that I dig.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Growing up my dad had an old iPod that I would sequester whenever my brother and I stayed at his house. I didn’t like all the music on it and would instead listen to 6 albums over and over and over again - cycling through them for hours. This album was one of the 6 and will always be important to me.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

5/5

The Layers… Another album from my childhood! I definitely know Esperanza better but all the things I think the later albums build on is here in glory.

Arular

M.I.A.

5/5

Pop rocks kind of ear candy

Fever Ray

4/5

I like the pacing of this album - deliberately slow and plodding. The vibe bleeds together.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

This album is objectively good at what it is going for, I just did Not Want to Hear It today. I liked that it was under 40min.

L.A. Woman