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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Pogues	5	3.33	+1.67
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	4	2.59	+1.41
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	4	2.65	+1.35
Violator Depeche Mode	5	3.7	+1.3
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.7	+1.3
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	4	2.72	+1.28
A Little Deeper Ms. Dynamite	4	2.81	+1.19
White Light Gene Clark	4	2.84	+1.16
I Against I Bad Brains	4	2.93	+1.07

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.69	-2.69
Selling England By The Pound Genesis	1	3.18	-2.18
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.13	-2.13
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	1	2.94	-1.94
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	1	2.83	-1.83
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.71	-1.71
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	2	3.68	-1.68
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	3.64	-1.64
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.58	-1.58
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles	2	3.5	-1.5

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Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

Super funky and casual in a way that isn't really my jam. A song about getting into Japanese culture from DBZ is both a wonderful affirmation of how things can matter to people, and not something I really want to listen to.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

The best moments, when it grooves, are fantastic (and where all the hits are). She of the other tracks come off as Jack White trying to explain why he loves a genre of music and not always succeeding.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Funky in a way I actually dig. I think I like funk more when it can fade into the background. Lyrics more as tone than statement.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

I might like jazz? There's a flow to this that's so hard to describe it's basically zen. The music just washes over you like its always been there.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Maybe it's just listening to this not long after Grandpa passed, but this feels old in a way that not even other albums I've listened to as part of this felt old. It really has a sense of when I'd think to hear it. I think that's an impressive kind of good on its own.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Really interesting album. It sounds like a soundtrack, and I could like it as one. Or a concept album (which I guess maybe it is, but it didn't feel like it and that structure). Without that form to fit all these stories into, it felt rambling. Not bad, but not well-formed.

Boston

4/5

This is a better album than I knew. It's got a laid back big rock swagger that totally hits.

I Against I

Bad Brains

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Given how much I listened to Flogging Molly, and that they've been covered by Titus Andronicus, you'd think I'd have heard The Pogues before this. But I hadn't. I have now, and my life is better for it.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Too rock opera for me. It all feels like a soundtrack to a movie, but the soundtrack is trying to take over.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

I wasn't thinking I'd like this much, but it surprised me. Moe Dylan than honky-tonk, with a lyricism that I could see getting embedded in my brain.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I'd always felt the Stones were less bluesy than advertised, but I think that's just the hits. This is a lazy Sunday blues rock I can get behind.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

Not sure I'd ever heard Ray Charles before. More swingy than I'd really like, but I can see where it would have been a big deal.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

I just cannot get into the carnival barker thing, and that's most of this. DNF.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

1/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

Can't really get behind the singer, and this overstays its welcome by roughly a whole album.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Oddly my opinion hasn't changed much in the decade+ since this came out: some amazing moments but too ornate most of the time.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

4/5

Impressive lyricism.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

I know it's not cool to like this, but it kind of slaps in an old white dude kind of way

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

I just don't like the funky thing the Chili Peppers do :/

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

Oh, now I see why people don't like Pink Floyd

Being There

Wilco

3/5

It's fine? My biggest dig is probably just that I didn't care much one way or another.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

1/5

Oh, this is why that guy on Top Gear hates Genesis

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

The Swedes are all right

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Oh, this is why that guy on Top Gear hates Genesis

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

I'm just not a jam-band kind of person

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Amazing voice, interesting songs, but not my style

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Wow, this _is_ better than the Stones.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Still don't like the skits, but damn do the tracks slap.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

4/5

Still don't like the skits, but damn do the tracks slap.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Oh hey, I know that groove.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

I still don't have an ear for jazz, so this was just fine but didn't stand out.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Weirdly before its time.

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

Not my kind of metal

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

There's more here than the hits, but it also seems a little rote. Every track is kind of same-y.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

The bangers really bang, but the others fall really flat.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

If I'd had this during dramatic college breakups this would have been on repeat.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Never thought much of Thin Lizzy, but this actually rocked

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

This whole thing sounds like the 90s. But aside from the bangers, everything else sounded like covers of their own songs.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

1,001 albums and I get three Leonard Cohen in a week. Not bad, but not his best.

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

The hits are real bangers, the rest is mumbly wordplay I can't stand.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5