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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Murmur R.E.M.	5	3.42	+1.58
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.47	+1.53
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.52	+1.48
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.56	+1.44
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	4	2.57	+1.43
21 Adele	5	3.69	+1.31
Boston Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Graceland Paul Simon	5	3.74	+1.26
American Idiot Green Day	5	3.76	+1.24
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.84	+1.16

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Close To The Edge Yes	1	3.19	-2.19
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	2	3.61	-1.61
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Third Soft Machine	1	2.43	-1.43
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	2	3.43	-1.43
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2	3.39	-1.39
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	2	3.38	-1.38
The Next Day David Bowie	2	3.3	-1.3
Made In Japan Deep Purple	2	3.29	-1.29
Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	2.28	-1.28

5-Star Albums (14)

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Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

This album is art. But not Art.

2 likes

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Take time out to listen. No notes on all the notes. Perfect.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (5)

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Closer

Joy Division

2/5

Did not like, tbh. But I do hear why it was influential.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Good background music but it did not stand out vs. Davis, Brubeck, Coltrane et al.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Apologies Nick Cave and the Bad Seed, I was unfamiliar with your game. This landed in the prime of my music listening years, so shame on everyone else for not getting this to me.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Loved this so much as a kid. Still feels important, but a little less so 40 years later.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

This is like when I go to a restaurant and eat something that I can tell is super well prepared and made from excellent ingredients, but it’s just not my jam.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Pleasant. That’s all.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Definitely an artifact of its time. Can’t tell if it inspired everything else that sounds like it, or if it was inspired by everything else.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Easy listening at its finest. A pure distillation of the safest corners of mainstream American in the 70s.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

80s distilled. Love.

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

2/5

Fine. Never heard it. Don’t need to again.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Didn’t realize how much this was my personal soundtrack.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Good solid blues.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Did not realize several songs I like were from this album. Regardless, I do not care for this album.

Close To The Edge

Yes

1/5

Yes to Yes. No to this.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Jimi is what we knew he was.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Excuse me, I was unfamiliar with how hard you rock and how funky you are.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

‘Murica!

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

couple of good songs offset by over indulging the artist

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Groovy.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Even as a child of late 70s and early 80s radio, I was not familiar with this brand of Genesis. I think it’s best everyone went their separate ways and flourished.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2/5

Relax. It’s better than you might guess.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Definitely definitely

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Better album than state.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Nope

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Ahhh the late 90s were really something.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Remain listening.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

This is next.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

I didn’t like this album when I was in college even though everyone said it was the best. 25+ years later, still don’t.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

This album is art. But not Art.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Back to where? Not the top.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Ashamed to have liked this so much. But here we are.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

It was destiny that Beyoncé would break out.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

My ears were surprised by their range.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Slay.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

It took more than two tries to finish listening.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Orange Juice meets Kate Bush?

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Third? Last.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Prince? More like a king, amirite?

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Perfectly pleasant.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

It’s strange to me this album isn’t discussed more.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Some songs as sharp as steel. Some weak as rust.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Surprised again by their range.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Led Zeppelin is #1

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

New to me.

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

When I listen to this, I imagine a bunch of guys running around in Robinhood costumes. 🤷‍♂️

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Feels influential. Heard lots of other groups in here.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Perfect.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Why isn’t there more UK rap. I likee.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Debbie Harry always answers the call.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Was torn between a 2 or a 3, but ultimately had to go go with a 3 because it reminded me of grade school.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

My childhood memories didn’t live up to my adult experience.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

I almost signed off early.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Why didn’t anyone tell me this was so good?

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Tight, fast, enjoyable ride to the station

Boston

5/5

Apologies, Boston. I had forgotten your game.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

Not as deep into this as I thought I’d be

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

If you’re an astronomer high in the sky and you fall, you need a parachute.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

25 years since I listened to this. Will probably be another 16.

New York Dolls

4/5

New York awesomes, tbh

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

2/5

There is no album I’ve listened to more than Midnight Marauders. Sadly, this is not Midnight Marauders.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

I didn’t realize just how much Parliament walked so 90s rap could run.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Truth in naming.

Garbage

4/5

Instantly transported back to university. In a good way.

Adele

5/5

All 21 are exceptional.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Everything but me

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

I’m out, forever.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

actually very alive.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

What the funking funk?

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

I am against I against I

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

4 more volumes! 4 more volumes!

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Smooth.

Gorillaz

3/5

Monkey business, tbh.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

Bad dream.

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Stupidly good.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

It was fine. Sorry.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Liars. YOU were wearing.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

More like cloud 4.5 or 5.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Take time out to listen. No notes on all the notes. Perfect.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

3/5

Crqp. I liked this.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Can’t look past the Cars song.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

This music has no right to me.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Next, please.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Stanky. In a good way.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

OLED is better, but this is still pretty good

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Big pink is light without the weight.

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Yes?

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

I was surprisingly attracted to this album, though the absurd length did repel me.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Perfectly fine!

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Thanks, Elvis.

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

This is a poor replica of a good album.

My Generation

The Who

4/5

My generation, too.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

…But this album isn’t

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Perfectly sane.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

The illest.