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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Junkyard The Birthday Party	4	2.16	+1.84
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55
Odelay Beck	5	3.46	+1.54
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.49	+1.51
Funeral Arcade Fire	5	3.56	+1.44
Penthouse And Pavement Heaven 17	4	2.61	+1.39
Superfly Curtis Mayfield	5	3.7	+1.3
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4	2.79	+1.21
Happy Trails Quicksilver Messenger Service	4	2.8	+1.2
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1	2.67	-1.67
Highway to Hell AC/DC	2	3.66	-1.66
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	2	3.36	-1.36
C'est Chic CHIC	2	3.34	-1.34
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	2	3.32	-1.32
The Poet Bobby Womack	2	3.21	-1.21
Technique New Order	2	3.17	-1.17
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	2	3.12	-1.12

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Okay - interesting, seemingly unique sounds for era. Good complex instrumentalities. Did not pay attention to the lyrics but supposedly they are good.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Surprised I had never heard it before. Very impressed.

The xx

3/5

Want to listen to it again. Not completely impressed.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Sooo good. I can't believe I hadn't heard this album before.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Not nearly as good as All Directions but still a good listen.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

On second listen - really good. And the sax is so nice. R LOVED hearing Warrior in Woolworths.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Music

Madonna

2/5

Meh

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Hard to tell how innovative it was for the time. It's good. 8 year old hated it.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Very good. No input from the kids though.

Dire Straits

3/5

It was okay. Expected more. R thought it was just okay.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Ok. R did not like it. Thought it would be better.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

4/5

Interesting. Better than expected. But got a bit bored with it towards the end. R liked it; H did not.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Very good. Kids thought it was good. It dragged on a bit but you can't beat that opening of an opening song for a debut album.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Another great opening riff (two albums in a row - LZ's Good Times Bad Times was Friday). Rest of the album was meh at best.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

So good. Unanimous 5. Deluxe version with new mix was good.

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Interesting. Surprised never heard of them. Would listen again. But not heavy rotation or desert island.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Lilith Fairy. Would listen again. Hadn’t ever listened before. Solid 3.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

No good notes. Likes the songs.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Very good. No notes.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

A 3+. Had not heard the album (but heard a few songs). Would not put it in same category as early U2 but better than expected. Somewhat surprised it made the list.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Uniquely good and unexpectedly good. Barely a 4 but still a 4.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Quite good. Reyna liked it.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Very slow. A poppy favorite artist.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Big fan. Girls liked.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

Psychedelic rocker. Glad to hear it for first time. More like this!

Debut

Björk

3/5

Ok. Didn’t listen much. No bangers (even for Bjork).

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Bangers and belters. Only one listen though. Girls liked it.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

A classic with great tunes. I wish I could pay closer attention to the lyrics.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

High 2. Good rocker. But mostly by the numbers. Need more jam.

Kenya

Machito

4/5

New to me and great.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Surpassed expectations. Wanted to hear it more. Will come back to it. r liked it too.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Decent but did not meet expectations. Barely made a 3. Girls agree but loved the hits.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

New wave stuff. Decent. Wasn’t yearning for more. But worthy of 3.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Ended up less exciting as it went along. Hoped for more uniqueness.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Innovative. Wanted to hear again.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Not as impressed with the overall album.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Enjoyed it more when directly listening. Energy off the charts but got repetitive .

Technique

New Order

2/5

Meh and middling New Wave. Some interesting innovative synthesizer use but otherwise blah.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Good. Understandably considered excellent for those who may listen closely to lyrics - but I'm not one of those so not sure.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Pretty good stuff. Overall, the doesn’t quite make it to a four but definitely a solid three. Helena did not like it, but she was in a bad mood.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Good stuff. Not the greatest album but her voice and styling is really good.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Solid. Not quite four.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

So good. Funk is goood. Girks did not like and found lyrics annoyingly repetitive.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Not bad. Not my cup of tea. Worthy of a there. Would come back to it.

Femi Kuti

4/5

Good stuff. Not as good as Felan but made it over the himp to a 4.

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

A couple bangers but mostly one note.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Very good album. Kept wanting to hear it again and relisten.

Adele

4/5

Great album. Unanimous 4.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Interesting. Definitely a 3. Not quite a 4. Girls not fans of it.

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Good songs. Great last song. Surprising instrumentation. Barely a 3.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Expected more from such a huge seller. Girls were meh. Nir did not want to listen to it.

War

3/5

Good songs but not as great as would have liked.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Liked it. Barely a 4. Would change if another album of his is better.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Very very good. Prog rock greatness.

2112

Rush

3/5

Hoped for better

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Better than expected but songs were too similar. Loved the long song titles.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Great tunes. Not sure if it's the desert island Marley album, but very good reggae album.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Very good songs. Short album. Would listen multiple times.

The Libertines

3/5

Barely a 3. Would listen again. Girls thought it was a 2.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

I thought it was going to be a two. However, a few songs are really good and bumped it up to three. Unfortunately, the lyrics we’re not appropriate for the girls so there’s no information as to whether they liked it or not.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

A desert island album.

Cypress Hill

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5