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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Drunk Thundercat	5	3.12	+1.88
This Year's Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	3.32	+1.68
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	5	3.33	+1.67
2112 Rush	5	3.39	+1.61
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.44	+1.56
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.5	+1.5
Here's Little Richard Little Richard	5	3.57	+1.43
Illmatic Nas	5	3.6	+1.4
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.61	+1.39

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.61	-2.61
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	1	3.03	-2.03
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.42	-1.42
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel	2	3.23	-1.23
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	2	3.13	-1.13
Porcupine Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.09	-1.09

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Artist	Albums	Average
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	5

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Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Immediately - Love the Southern Soul-Gospel piano to kick off the album. Overall, this sounds like a show and collage of moods and styles. The vocal performances are pretty alright, and some tracks give me a Ben Folds vibe. Piano playing almost sounds like it could cover off of Rocking the Suburbs - even though this came out 20? years earlier. I laughed out loud at "A Gospel". Please see the Wendy's Employee Training from the 80s. British dudes singing... rrm... writing about American politics is always weird to me. The Wiki states that this is more of a compilation, and academically, it includes some solid music ideas and examples. The recording is simple and not overworked. "Here's one that got away" is a great example of that, but I'd almost prefer a comp of various artists who really embody these genres and styles.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

"Fuck who's the baddest, a person's status depends on salary And my mentality is money-orientated" I haven’t thought about this album in forever. The structure, lyrics, flow, samples, beats, the best of the era and probably ushered in a turning point in the genre becuase - man, no going back from this one.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

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Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Real talk, I think this style of dance music is a joke. And I think I’d put this album as a prime example.

Django Django

4/5

Not a huge electronic music person. I appreciate the blend of digital and analogue instruments.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Classic

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

1/5

Damon is boring here. Danger Mouse is the most overrated producer. Just not good is the only way I can really put it.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Good album.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

No wonder GenX were so predisposed to apathy.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Trust. I do not need to listen to this album to rate it. 10 Stars. Update. I listened to it. 20 stars.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Let's see what the caterpillar has to say about this one. Caterpillar? "Which way did the fishy fish go?" A complete mid-range album from a time where LSD was both super cool and used by the CIA to look into other dimensions.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

This is neat.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Fun. Neat. Easy listening. But just kinda “good” to me.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Not my bag.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Fun. Not a huge Killers fan. Nothing groundbreaking or really grasping to me on this album

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Real good dude

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Masterpiece. No notes.

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

In the current taylor swift climate, i refuse to believe this was given to us at random. I sang every word. Loudly. Proudly. Adam Dreschner [sic] made this album anything it was going to be.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

This is one of the first albums I ever bought and some of the first songs I ever learned to play. I did not know Johnny cash farther than a cartoonish character of country music that was more fable than man. It wasn’t until a decade later I really started to see cash a a real person after reading Cash by Johnny Cash (because I was High Fidelity). Now 20 years later with more insight and understanding more of the songs chosen for this anthology, I can give it no less than an 5/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

It’s fine

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Yeah I mean…. Come on

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Good album.

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Peter Gabrielle is so bleh to me. But so are most British art school weenies

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Frankly I love this album.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Yeah I mean yeah

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Not my thing

Fleet Foxes

5/5

Hippie ass bullshit that I love

My Generation

The Who

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

Love some Merle softies

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

I really know this is a good album, but I have a lot of bee's in my brain right now so the amount happening on this album is just overwhelming to me. Someone once said that music is the space between notes. There is no space between notes here. There is no room on this album. It is the musical equivalent to being at a crowded party. It is sensory overload the soundtrack.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

It’s kinda just a alright

Caetano Veloso

3/5

I am not familiar with the work.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

I am too hung over for James Brown.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Anything RHCP is getting 5 stars from me. I love this band. They do no wrong. (Musically)

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

I really enjoy this album. I would credit this album to me getting into more folk music and Brit pop.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Some real bangers in this. Neil young sounds really good here.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Please read this with the note that I do not like The Rolling Stones. Wow. What a garbage album that is a gross imitation of blues rock more egregious than Led Zeppelin.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

It's the white album. What more do you want me to say?

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Just not my jam

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

3/5

If you could ever here some one’s fingers all over something, it’d be Brian Eno here.