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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Mermaid Avenue Billy Bragg	5	3.17	+1.83
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.41	+1.59
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.67	+1.33
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	5	3.7	+1.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Electric Warrior T. Rex	2	3.53	-1.53
Eliminator ZZ Top	2	3.37	-1.37
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	2	3.27	-1.27

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Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

A little disjointed. Great songs and mood but I’m not fully convinced.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Really holds together well as an album. Not perfect. A bit too much of its time. Not every song is compelling.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

First time hearing. Fine. Good loud blues rock or metal. Nothing jumped out at me but wasn’t bad. Heard again. Groundbreaking. Love it love it.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

First time hearing. Lots of fun. Held together as an album. Good pop.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

First time hearing. Lots of good songs. Immediately engaging. Some songs beautiful. Has a “.sound.”

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

One of my best discoveries in recent years. Only second time hearing it.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

First time hearing. Not great. Not terrible. Several recognizable songs. But mostly stupid.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

First time listening. Good but nothing outstanding. Great dance music. But matinee not a great album.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

First time. Derivative. Hard to Handle sounded like plastic. The one about angels was the single and it was ok. Not terrible.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Great. Compelling.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Classic but not perfect. I love instrumental music, and these are good instrumentals. But it’s so strangely weighted by sides. That's not what I want in an album.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

Fine. Nothing groundbreaking. Enjoyable enough. Good aesthetic. Strange that there are Sabbath references but they're not obtrusive.

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

Goodish songwriting. Production fine. Just can’t past the singing. And the fact that I have no answer to the question “what’s the point?” I mean I’m not against it…

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Cream get better. And they’re better live. This is important but it’s not that great. Not bad either.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Rather boring for her. I find it mostly middle-of-the-road and somewhat cloying. I much prefer earlier albums of hers.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

Deep Purple is a really good band, with great playing and some amazing songs. This album has especially strong live playing. It's compelling but still not great as a whole.

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Promising. Reminds me a lot of Nirvana. Sort of a missing piece between Sonic Youth and them. More tuneful than Sonic Youth, less aggressive than Nirvana. Nice. Would definitely listen again.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Beautiful. Doesn't get better. A favorite for life.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

This does not hold up well. The milquetoast rebellion seems downright silly. I wish it didn’t. That said, I know every song and love many. So I guess it’s above a 3?

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

A lot of fun. Very catchy. But I am not sure I connect to it all that much.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Great songs. Can’t explain it but somehow it never quite comes together. Still damn good.

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

Pretty good. I enjoyed it. I could see this growing on me, but right now it was just ok.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

2/5

I think this is relatively lame. I don't get it.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

This appears to be a rather standard Muddy Waters album. It's probably the 4th or so I've heard. I think he's great, but I'm not sure each one does something different enough for me to hear new ones.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

5/5

Great. Love the songs. Memories

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Catchy, fun. Not immediately memorable. 3

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Amazing songs. His best.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Very good. Enjoyable. But some songs are kinda boring.