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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	5	3.29	+1.71
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	5	3.61	+1.39
Bright Flight Silver Jews	4	2.68	+1.32
The Score Fugees	5	3.69	+1.31
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	5	3.94	+1.06
Ingenue k.d. lang	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Raw Power The Stooges	1	3.31	-2.31
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	1	2.9	-1.9
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	2	3.82	-1.82
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	1	2.76	-1.76
Hot Shots II The Beta Band	2	3.01	-1.01

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Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

2/5

Tolerable. Would not actively choose to listen again. Often repetitive.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

This is a band, and an album, that I want to like more than I do. That said, there are a couple bangers here.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

This album has a lot of songs you've heard on it. Most of them could be classified as bangers from the '70s. Worth a spin.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Not the best Smiths album, but if you need a little Smiths in your life, it gets the job done.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

If you like the more juvenile version of the Beastie Boys, this is the album for you. While I do enjoy several tracks here, I prefer my Beasties with a bit more maturity and less misogyny.

Black Sabbath

2/5

While I appreciate Ozzy as a human and guitarist, I'll never be the target audience for this album.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

This album (especially the title track) takes me back to every dank college house party I went to in the '90s. And while the opening riffs of "Marquee Moon" take me back to making out with floppy haired indie rock boys on dank couches, I don't love this album. But i guess it's important.

Iron Maiden

3/5

I made it through 5 songs, which is a success for me and metal.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

This was the last great Arcade Fire album.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

1/5

I've gotten two albums from this band in the course of a week. They are no bueno.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

I've never sought out French Argentinian tango music before, but I found this enjoyable. It felt a bit like a soundtrack to a French new wave film.

Raw Power

The Stooges

1/5

Iggy Pop you scream too much!

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

I didn't hate this. It made me want to go a '90s rave.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

This was delightful. Always love some Willie.

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

This was fine. Solid 3-star album.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

This is my dad's Stones, not mine. It's nostalgic and even made me want to shake my booty. But alas, I prefer my Stones with more illicit substances permanently in their systems.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Painful. Confusing.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

This is a great album. It's also really hard to listen 25 years after its release.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Oldies radio classics you've absolutely heard. Not my fave but not bad either.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

I knew there was a reason I never got into this band. It's because they kind of suck.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Elevating this from 3 to 4 stars mostly because it gave me an excuse to listen to Beck, but he's got better albums.

White Denim

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Classic. No notes.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Ms. Lauryn Hill's voice gives me chills every time I heard it. It's too bad fortune and fame got to her mental health the way it did.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

If you're my sister and literally got a degree in jazz, I bet this is rad! Sadly, I did not go to jazz school, so I don't really understand this album but I'm sure it's important so I'll give it 3 stars.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

5/5

This album makes me feel exactly like I did when I bought it on cassette at age 11, but now I know what the lyrics mean. "Johnny used to work on the docks. Union's been on strike, he's down on his luck, it's tough." I'm sure I shouted that at the top of my lungs at the 6th grade dance but what did I know? Still, it rocked then. It rocks now.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

This was a bit of a snooze. The Bangles version of "A Hazy Shade of Winter" is better.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

4/5

Even though I've been a Pavement superfan for over 30 years, I never really got into the Silver Jews. I'm glad this popped up. It scratches that '90s yelly indie rock itch.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

How can you listen to this album and not feel sexy, sultry, and fabulous? Much like a ... dare I say it ... ingenue!

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

At last, an album that sounds like a soundtrack because it is one! Super fun!

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

I used to work with a guy whose mom was Mo Tucker's childhood friend. I once went to the coworker's mom's house and had a fan girl-by-association moment, so and she showed me her collection of all the things she saved from her years hanging out with Mo. Meanwhile, my coworker just kept complaining about how much he hated the Velvet Underground while the mom and I rocked out to this album.

Caetano Veloso

3/5

Is this list 1,001 albums or 1,001 caper movie soundtracks? This was ... fine.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

This feels dated. No thank you.