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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live At The Witch Trials The Fall	5	2.64	+2.36
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	5	2.88	+2.12
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	5	2.89	+2.11
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	5	2.99	+2.01
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	5	3.03	+1.97
The Sensual World Kate Bush	5	3.19	+1.81
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Pavement	5	3.25	+1.75
The Man Machine Kraftwerk	5	3.31	+1.69
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.33	+1.67
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live / Dead Grateful Dead	1	2.81	-1.81
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.63	-1.63
25 Adele	2	3.37	-1.37
Melodrama Lorde	2	3.32	-1.32
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	2	3.29	-1.29
The Poet Bobby Womack	2	3.22	-1.22
Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper	2	3.11	-1.11
Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves	2	3.07	-1.07
The Last Broadcast Doves	2	3.03	-1.03
The Bends Radiohead	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	2	5
Kate Bush	3	4.33

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Really strong all the way through.

Not my favorite Radiohead. It feels uneven to me, but it has it’s high points.

So tedious

Wasn’t expecting to like this, but I enjoyed several songs quite a bit. As an album, it felt a little long

I don’t think I’d rate this so highly if I hadn’t listened to it so much in high school. So nostalgia’s doing a lot of work here, but I still love Ian Astbury’s unique voice and sometimes ridiculous vocal stylings. The Born to Be Wild cover is really awful, though.

I haven’t really listened to this entire album since the 80s, when it spent a lot of time in my Walkman, and I enjoyed listening again - particularly Tea in the Sahara and Murder by Numbers, which I had totally forgotten. A word about ‘Mother’: I remembered this Andy Summers tune, mentioned often in other reviews here, as a crummy song that I usually fast forwarded over. But when I listened today, it struck me as hilarious - like William Shatner covering Mr. Tambourine Man. The lyrics, the maniacal singing style and deranged laughing, the various ways he growls or squeaks “mother,” the accent he uses on the lyric “let this poor boy be,” all set against music that makes me picture his mother as an evil belly dancer - unintentional (I think) comedy gold.