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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Teenager Of The Year Frank Black	5	3	+2
It's A Shame About Ray The Lemonheads	5	3.13	+1.87
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	5	3.3	+1.7
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	4	2.48	+1.52
Timeless Goldie	4	2.53	+1.47
The Clash The Clash	5	3.54	+1.46
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
The Grand Tour George Jones	4	2.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	1	3.53	-2.53
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	1	3.43	-2.43
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues	1	3.25	-2.25
Autobahn Kraftwerk	1	3.09	-2.09
Behaviour Pet Shop Boys	1	3.04	-2.04
Killing Joke Killing Joke	1	2.99	-1.99
Spiderland Slint	1	2.98	-1.98
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.97	-1.97
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	1	2.81	-1.81
Peggy Suicide Julian Cope	1	2.77	-1.77

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Popular Reviews

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Not much for pop, but Tay Tay I do like. She’s a true songwriter and performer. This album has some classic pop writing. Good wholesome fun

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Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Nice production. A little too clean? easy listening and nice roadtrip vibes

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Love this record!! High energy, groove, foot tapper!

Parklife

Blur

4/5

brit pop classic! I wasn't a big fan of this album when it first came out. I found it too much pop and not gritty enough. I've converted over time to get the appeal. To the End and This is a Low are the stand out tracks.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Torn between this and Abbey Road as the best Beatles album. Not a wasted moment, every song a banger! and possibly Ringo’s best lead song.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

I was obsessed with this album around 1994. Music like this just doesn’t exist anymore. In my top10 all time

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

1/5

For me disappointing. I started this challenge to find some classic gems I had missed along the way. This was an album I was happy to have avoided. A lot of repetitive patterns and similar energy to every song. A lot going on and everyone competing for space. Some nice moments, most of which have no doubt been sampled since! Overall feels like a live band who love to improvise trying ti make a record.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

First half, is the a poor mans Ziggy Stardust meets Bob Dylan? I don’t get where this album is going? Thank god for punk rock and new wave came along just a few years later! Listenable, but not something I’m in a rush to get back to anytime soon

Fragile

Yes

3/5

I hear a lot of pink Floyd Wish you were here, but it was released 4 years prior! Especially South Side of the Sky. I don’t mind this record. It probably needs a few listens to take it all in.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

2/5

This left me cold. Beautiful, soulful voice. But not something I feel inspired for a second listen.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Nice record, safe and from the production line. The 8th record? I think about how far the Beatles had come in the same time. A bit rinse and repeat for me.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Didn’t mind it, just not my thing. Feel alike a lot of the lyrics and designed more to shock than convey a point or perspective. Won’t be listening again

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Didn’t hold my attention. Repetitive, melodic, metronomic. Will need to listen again to see what I missed!

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

I listened to this album. A lot back in the 90s was great to have a blast in the past. A lot of fun.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

Classic!

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5