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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.32	+1.68
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	5	3.4	+1.6
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.68	+1.32
New Wave The Auteurs	4	2.86	+1.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Van Halen Van Halen	2	3.63	-1.63
American Gothic David Ackles	1	2.49	-1.49
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	2	3.35	-1.35
Fragile Yes	2	3.31	-1.31

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Teen Dream

Beach House · 1 likes

4/5

Nice surprise, and a genre I could not name before but will now discover more.

1-Star Albums (2)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Very chill album, jazzy at times but not in the (for me so far) annoying over the top freestyle. I like this.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

I like the vibe but struggle with the voice.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Familiar from when I was young. It has something recognizable and familiar to it, but outside the hit(s) I was never a ZZ Top fan. It is fun to hear the music though and not just focus on the cars and big beards like I did when I was a kid.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

As a rock fan you cannot NOT like this album.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Absolutely LOVE this album, and I mean pretty much every single song. Bought it when it came out, as I was already a big Pumpkins fan. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Lovely album of the back extremely popular Kate Bush, in Europe. Very surprised it seems lesser known in the US / globally but I guess Stranger Things fixed that many decades later...

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

It's surprising to learn I know pretty much all the songs on the album without ever listening to it as a whole. Witness to how many hits this album contains I'd say.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

When in the mood.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

Van Halen

2/5

Can appreciate it for what it is and represents, but Van Halen just isn't my cup of tea.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

The sound is familiar and kind of casual, in a way where it feels better than it holds up for me. Background music works, but several songs got on my nerves listening on headphones.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Extremely familiar album from when it came out. I cannot deny this is a great album, but I've perhaps heard it too much at this point.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Some nice riffs and bridges showing great potential, but too clean for me. It lacks something and somehow that kills the vibe for me. That said, I would not be surprised if this influenced a whole lot of bands who built this into something much more raw, and I grew up on those bands.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Cannot beat The Smiths. While certainly full of songs many will find depressing, and we all recognize Morrissey can be insufferable, it is just soothing and oh so familiar music that always delivers.

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Nice surprise, and a genre I could not name before but will now discover more.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

songs are great but I mostly know them through covers, which makes Bob's voice a little challenging at times.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Not for me, it is not something unique or special (to my ears) and I'm frankly confused as to why it is on this list. For other albums I did not like I could see the attraction or uniqueness, not for this one.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

I did not check if this was an earlier album, but I feel I can hear the basis developing for the known hits. However, being very familiar with many of the more popular songs this album just didn't do as much for me as I'd expected.

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

Absolutely loved 'why does it always rain on me' when it came out. First time I listened to the whole album and I like it.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

New Wave

The Auteurs