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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Femi Kuti Femi Kuti	5	3.25	+1.75
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	5	3.65	+1.35
Back to Mystery City Hanoi Rocks	4	2.68	+1.32
Metallica Metallica	5	3.79	+1.21

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	2	4.43	-2.43
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	2	3.65	-1.65
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.62	-1.62
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	3.32	-1.32
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	3	4.3	-1.3
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	2	3.12	-1.12
Underwater Moonlight The Soft Boys	2	3.06	-1.06
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	2	3.03	-1.03
A Seat at the Table Solange	2	3.01	-1.01
Hunky Dory David Bowie	3	4	-1

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A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

'Message in a Bottle' carries the album. 'No Time This Time' was the other standout.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

I was surprised at how varied their sound is. 'Take a Load off your Feet' and 'Disney Girls' were the standout tracks.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

It was cool hearing the commentary. Solos were a little long for me, but that's the point.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

I found most of the tracks 'annoying'. Didn't enjoy the singers voice and the music was very repetitive.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Pretty samey sounding. Very aughts. 'Disarm' was the standout tracks.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Phenomenal Bossa Nova jazz. Really enjoyed the quiet, and the mood they achieved.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Not my genre of music, but very well performed.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Really loved this Soul album. Otis' vocal timbre texture really gets you moving.

The Joshua Tree

3/5

It was fine.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

Not a fan. I think I may be less punk than I thought.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

An enjoyable listen.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Wasn't a fan of the novel sounds.

1999

Prince

3/5

Prince was SO horny...

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

It was fine Dad Rock.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Real easy listening. All good songs.

Femi Kuti

5/5

Phenomenal Album. Absolutely Slapped.

Gorillaz

4/5

Very easy listening.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Great jazz album.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

It was fine. Actually enjoyed Pink Floyd.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

2/5

Very same and repetitive.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

It was fine. Nothing to write home about.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

I enjoyed this album. Good soundscapes and catchy chorus.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

2/5

My concept of what Beastie Boys is was skewed. Was not expecting riff tracks. Sabotage is THE Beastie Boys song.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

I enjoyed this album. Some songs were a little too country/plain for me.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

i spent way too long not listening to Amy Winehouse. Great jazz/soul album with so many moving tracks.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

I enjoy the occasional sound scape, but a whole album was a little much.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Ray Charles LOVED his wife. The album got very samey.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Classic Rock.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

Was impressed by the variety of sounds. They do well with dissonant melodies.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Not a big fan of Sabbath, but maybe it's the album.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

It was fine background music.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Not for me.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

It was fine. Felt like I was listening to the same song for 40 minutes.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

Was not a fan.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

It was fine. I think I enjoyed it more than most classic rock.

Metallica

5/5

It's their best album.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

It was fine. Classic Dad Rock.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

It was fine. Classic Dad Rock.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

2/5

I do not like Dark Side of the Moon, and think it is highly overrated.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

I actually quite liked this album. Some very novel sounds. Much different than the first Smiths album I listened to.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

It was fine. The feature song is Fast Car.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

It was fine. Nothing standout.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

Not a fan.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

It was fine.

Dire Straits

4/5

Easy listening. Stand out is Sultans of Swing

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

It was fine.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Not for me.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

I actually really enjoyed this. Very classic Rock, but lots of blues/jazz inspirations with the solos.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

4/5

Really enjoyed this album.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Well performed. Gets pretty samey.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

An okay Folk album.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

I enjoyed this. Cheesy at times, but he's a good singer.

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

I like Dolly, but not country.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Very wide range of sounds and genres.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

It was fine for a debut LP. Didn't realize how much Eminem/ late90s-early00s used the language they did.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Just an album you would listen to with your mistress.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Classic Dad Rock

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Really enjoyed this album. Wasn't expecting the story telling by Kendrick.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Every song sounds the same.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

So old school.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Not for me.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Generic classic rock