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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	5	3.08	+1.92
Woodface Crowded House	5	3.1	+1.9
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.19	+1.81
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.29	+1.71
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	5	3.29	+1.71
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	5	3.29	+1.71
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
Garbage Garbage	5	3.38	+1.62
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	2	3.44	-1.44
Loveless My Bloody Valentine	2	3.17	-1.17
Vespertine Björk	2	3.17	-1.17

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Artist	Albums	Average
Metallica	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
David Bowie	2	5

5-Star Albums (25)

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Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

Fantastic mix of western licks and African rhythms.

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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Album full of great song writing, beautiful harmonies and an unmistakable 60 psychedelic feel. The beginning of the album starts off with sparse arrangements of acoustic or clean electric guitar and voice with little percussion, through to a wonderful instrument track, maturing to full psychedelic and dark blues. This album has unmistakable classics such as white rabbit and somebody to love.

Metallica

5/5

Album that redefined Metallica’s sound. Award winning and every song a classic. When you start with enter sandman this album never fails.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

Unbelievably cool! Rap heritage, classic and inspiring storytelling. Ice Cube, Dre, Easy E and MC Ren and Yella .. just awesome.

Black Sabbath

5/5

Beginning of an era. Doomy sounding from the get go, bass up front in the mix and frantic with, of course, Ozzys voice and storytelling. Saying that still splashes and overtones from the psychedelic 60s.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Master class in storytelling and song composition. Beautiful album with two undeniable hits, wild world and father and son.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Wanted to love this album. Production , singing and playing are classic big band Ray Charles. Unfortunately most of the songs are slower love songs or revamped blues renditions, which drops it a star for me.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

Another defining album. Great story telling and a different take on rap.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Fantastic Latin grooves and some funky slap bass lines. Didn’t understand a word but sure makes you want ti dance.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Fantastic Latin grooves and some funky slap bass lines. Didn’t understand a word but sure makes you want ti dance.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Fantastic Latin grooves and some funky slap bass lines. Didn’t understand a word but sure makes you want ti dance.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

As the title suggests the album starts at breakneck pace and is an awesome example of big band jazz.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Some great songs in a very black keys style. Howlin for you being a global smash. Whole album is well halted but quite understated from song to song.

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Raw and wonderful. Anybody who can start an album with a 10 minute song, allow the musicians to solo as long as they want then follow it with Golden Years is a genius. Classic Bowie.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Start of grunge but not really as impactful.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

5/5

Amazing groundbreaking album. Part 4 being timeless.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Not available.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Full of melodies and writing that makes this album amazing. Moondance, into the mystic and caravan are timeless.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

Beautiful album. Understated but not simple. Would be better if I understood the language in Senegal. Really beautiful listening.

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Could not find.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Another great early Bowie album. Some of it sounds like poetry , others straight and of course there is The Jean Genie.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Psychedelic rambling for the first half and seemingly songs and tunes strung together to form some sort of concept album.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Great if you like Dylan and folk breakthrough.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Nice evening jazz type of album. Instrumental and songs.

Wild Gift

4/5

Postpunk. Guitar and instrument sounds way better. Nice melodies good harmonies. Cleaner. Also fusion of punk and rock ‘n’ roll.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Great musicianship for this instrumental album.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Light acoustic easy listening.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

5/5

So many classics and a breakthrough in rock n roll.

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Ok if you like rap

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Just not my thing. Experimential , yes maybe, but not a pleasurable listening experience.

Garbage

5/5

Great sounding album and two hit songs. Emo at its best.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Black Sabbath at their best. Contrast of longer instrumental sections in songs and classics like Changes and Supernaut.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Classic album the encapsulates the late 60s. Unforgettable tunes like sunshine of my love and strange brew to start the whole thing off. Flowing into more bluesy mainstream toward the end with a great version of outside woman blues.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Truly shows you can write a song about anything and write music to any lyrics. Not sure this doom floats my boat.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

3/5

Good. Lighter and nice songs.

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Great musicianship. Not really my thing.