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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
This Is Fats Domino Fats Domino	5	3.38	+1.62
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	5	3.43	+1.57
Devotional Songs Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	4	2.58	+1.42
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.62	+1.38
The Joshua Tree U2	5	3.67	+1.33
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	1	3.83	-2.83
Ace of Spades Motörhead	1	3.29	-2.29
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	1	3.02	-2.02
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Megadeth	1	2.98	-1.98
Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	2	3.74	-1.74
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot	1	2.7	-1.7
En-Tact The Shamen	1	2.43	-1.43
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.41	-1.41
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	2	3.41	-1.41
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	2	3.13	-1.13

5-Star Albums (14)

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Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

French concept album 1971. Pedophilic tripe.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Top to bottom great album. Don't like them man behind the music, but that's a different issue.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

A classic. Hugely important bridge from R&B to rock. Great tunes, great voice.

Foo Fighters

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Best Dylan album.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Important turning point album for the Beatles. One of my all time favorites.

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

1/5

Not a fan of heavy metal.

Black Sabbath

1/5

Not a fan of heavy metal.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Musically 1 star, lyrically 4 stars.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Love jazz organ Jimmy Smith is the man.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Interesting, lots of tracks. Varied genres. Creative.

Eagles

3/5

Meh. 3 strong tracks. Rest is filler. Easy pop.

Violent Femmes

4/5

How did I miss this album. Didn't know there was a genre for acoustic folk-punk. I like it.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

Raw. Powerful. Strong. Good pulse, instrumentation. Cohesive. Not my genre (too dark, too much scream sound, distorted guitars not my thing), but I liked it a bunch.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Coupla classics.

The Joshua Tree

5/5

One of my all time favorite albums. Bono writes beauruful lyrics that are both deeply personal and have universal meaning and appeal. Edge's guitar playing is outstanding, and Bono's voice siars. Where the Streets have No Name, I Still Haven't Found..., With or Without You are all perfect songs. Deeply moving, heartfelt, musically engrossing, pulling you in, but always the giving prominence to and supporting Bono's lyrics and the powerful lyrics. Top 10 for me

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

2/5

Two iconic songs do not a great album make.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

First listen at age 61. Had been put off by the offensive cover. Liked it. The bond rocks throughout.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Never listened to them before. Great stuff. A little bit psychedelic. Strong musically. I think zo like their earlier stuff. A bit more committed to psychedelic.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

First listen. Like the pulse. Industrial/electronic drums and percussion works for me. Appealing vocals. Like the chord progressions.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

So glad that a few of the great jazz recordings made the list, like this classic by Monk. UT why not more? So many deserving artists and albums.

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

1/5

Full on fast heavy metal with horrific lyrics sung by a a screaming toad. Songs like Jailbait leave one wondering...

Cut

The Slits

2/5

All girl ska punk with limited musical ability and a tits out cover. Pass.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Never heard of the band. Mellow, psych-rock, elusive lyrics, easy on the ears.

Fever Ray

3/5

Scandinavian Electronica with vocals. The music is a 4, the lyrics and singing is a 2.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

I tried, but just not digging it.

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Classic, British glam rock, just some guitars and a drummer, 3 for the music, 2 for the lyrics. Rounding up for the knuckle art.

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

How does this make a top 1000 list?

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Imperial Bedroom is my favorite Elvis album, but this is a must album too.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

They’re the mic dominators, the rhyme creators, Run-DMC shook the globe, no imitators. From Hollis, Queens, to the world they reign, When they step on the stage, they ignite the flame. No glitter, no gimmicks, just beats and bass, They brought the hardcore sound straight to your face. Adidas on their feet, stripes shining so bright, When the record starts to spin, they control the night. They broke down walls with a rock-rap blend, Changed the game forever, set the new trend. Respect to the roots, they keep it alive, Every rhyme that they dropped made the culture thrive. So raise your hands high, let the rhythm decree, No kings more supreme than Run-DMC.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

Bad man.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

What does a "soft shoe banana" mean?

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

2/5

Are we not annoying, we are DEVO? Too much gimmick for me.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Liked it. The music feels weighty, in a good way, with lush synths.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

S&M

Metallica

3/5

I appreciate the effort. The music, not so much.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Janis rocks this raw and powerful blues rock anthem to the 60s. Love her or hate her, you've gotta respect her power. Crumb's cover has not aged well, imo.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Uneven Mayfield funk. Just ok for me.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

The Clash

3/5

I wanted to really like the entire album, but really it was just a few songs. Punk is just not in my DNA I guess.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Heart of Gold starts off the conversation as one of the great songs of its era, musically and lyrically. Many other strong tracks. A Man Needs a Maid must be understood in the context of his personal health difficulties at that time. Torn between 4 and 5. 5 is reserved for albums that I would listen to over and over. This doesn't quite get there for me.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Never knew Zappa did instrumental jazz fusion. 4 stars for a taking the chance and putting out a decent album.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

First full listen. I was afraid of this album as a kid. Love it as a 60 year old adult. So smart, honest, daring. And good!

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

One of the divisive albums I have seen. Lots of 5s, lots of 2s and 1s. I'm a fan of his sound, don his vocals, and appreciate his lyrics. Scoring it a 4.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Not deserving of the 1001 list

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Game changer.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

I wanted to love it, but just liked okay.