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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	5	2.24	+2.76
Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes	5	2.72	+2.28
Konnichiwa Skepta	5	2.73	+2.27
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	5	2.76	+2.24
Djam Leelii Baaba Maal	5	2.79	+2.21
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	5	2.86	+2.14
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	5	2.9	+2.1
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.92	+2.08
Bug Dinosaur Jr.	5	2.93	+2.07
Paris 1919 John Cale	5	2.97	+2.03

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.48	-1.48
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers	2	3.16	-1.16

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	3	4.67
Stevie Wonder	2	5
U2	2	5
Neil Young	2	5
Peter Gabriel	2	5
Talking Heads	2	5

5-Star Albums (84)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Okay so I almost completed the assignment. Put on the RHCP album. As someone who's only familiar with their radio songs, some of it was surprisingly funky and antiracist. That said, I eventually had to turn it off and put on some Brian Eno to cleanse my ears.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

MGMT occupies a club in my head with Foster The People; Peter Bjorn and John; and Portugal. The Man, although the latter came later IIRC. I actually always liked PBJ and P.TM better than MGMT and FTP, considering the latter to be mostly fluffy, shiny music that you might randomly hear on the radio or while shopping at Old Navy. It's not bad music; just vacuously catchy without much substance. That said, I really enjoyed listening to Oracular Spectacular in its entirety. I won't become an MGMT superfan anytime soon, but they are really talented and I will probably listen to this album again at some point.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

I was always lukewarm on The White Stripes. Jack White is a fantastic guitarist and decent songwriter, but a lot of their stuff sounds pretty similar, with vocal lines and chord progressions that are sometimes indistinguishable from one song to the next. My favorite Jack White project is actually the indie supergroup The Raconteurs, which (as you might expect) are more sonically diverse and draw more on classic rock than the blues (Rich Kid's Blues from Consolers Of The Lonely is their magnum opus, IMO). That said, this was a solid release. There's some of that Jack White sonic repetitiveness, but there are also some diversions from this, most notably on the gospel-soaked closing track, I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet).

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

I love this album. It's filled with covers of standards, and although Willie has never had an impressive voice, he still manages to infuse each song with poignancy and emotion. His version of Unchained Melody may be my favorite.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

5/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

5/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

5/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

5/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

5/5

How did I not know about John Cale's solo work until now??? This is a fantastic, rich '70s folk album in the vein of Nick Drake. I have to think he was a huge influence on Belle and Sebastian.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Throwing Muses

5/5

Gorillaz

5/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

5/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Listening to this album, I imagined being a teen/20 something in the late '70s/early '80s. I would have been permanently attached to my Walkman, listening to Television, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Elvis Costello, Paul Weller and The Jam... or maybe I wouldn't have been that cool. But this was a great era for rock music, and Television exemplifies it on this album.

War

5/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

5/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

The Clash