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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bright Flight Silver Jews	5	2.68	+2.32
Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada	5	2.91	+2.09
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.32	+1.68
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.41	+1.59
On The Beach Neil Young	5	3.46	+1.54
Electric Warrior T. Rex	5	3.54	+1.46
Ramones Ramones	5	3.58	+1.42

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
L.A. Woman The Doors	1	3.66	-2.66
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	1	3.59	-2.59
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29
Chicago Transit Authority Chicago	1	3.2	-2.2
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	1	2.84	-1.84
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Play Moby	2	3.46	-1.46
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	2	3.43	-1.43
Fragile Yes	2	3.31	-1.31
Hunting High And Low a-ha	2	3.12	-1.12

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1-Star Albums (6)

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Fleet Foxes

4/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Some great tracks on here, but some drag a bit on the second half. Solid 4/5.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

A classic and, IMO, one of his best. Five stars

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Not a huge fan of Simon and Garfunkel. 2.5 stars.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

A classic. I'd say parts haven't held up as well as "It Takes a Nation" but it's still great. Mid 3 to low 4 out of 5.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

5/5

David Berman is one of the best songwriters of all time and this is one of his best.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Queen is not a band I've every real cared or thought much about. Their brand of theatrical, over the top, operatic, rock never appealed to me much. I like my rock music more sleezy and unpolished. Add to that that I tend to ignore overplayed "classic hits" that I tend to hear all the time whether I want to or not and this is a band I've ignored. All of that said, there are some bangers on this album. The best song here is '39, which is stripped down and doesn't even really sound like Queen. I'll give it 3/5 stars. Not my favorite, but solid.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

This came out when I was in middle school and it was a huge album. Has it aged well? Yes and no. Production is top notch, but the album is plagued by dumb skits and misogynistic lyrics. Still a classic but not perfect.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

I really did not enjoy this. Not sure who this album is for. Seems well liked by critics, but I pretty much hated it.

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

I understand some of the appeal of Cash, but for me it's more style than substance. In that I mean that the mythology around Cash is bigger that the substance of his records. He has limited vocal range and it shows. There are plenty of better country artists, if Cash is even Country. I like a few of the songs here and even like this album, but I don't think it's worthy of the iconic status that it has.

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

1/5

Of all the bands from the 1960's and 70's, the Doors might be the most overrated. These are mostly blues songs done poorly. Jim Morrison sounds terrible throughout the album. I'm unimpressed.

Play

Moby

2/5

I like electronic music, but this, to me, seems like an odd pick for this project. If someone set out to make an album with the goal of selling as many tracks as possible to people interested in making car commercials, this is probably what it would sound like. I think there's better electonic music out there and Moby strikes me as a one trick pony.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

1/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

1/5

Dollar store Radiohead

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

This ripped.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Amazing record that I hadn't heard before. Going in the rotation for sure.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Frank Lloyd Wright song was pretty weird. What the hell was that?

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

This is Neil Young’s best work and some of the stories around its’ recording are incredible.

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

2/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Ryan Adams is, and always has been, an insufferable asshole, whose career was sunk after his long history of manipulative behavior with women. He sucks as a human being. I have on occassion, enjoyed his music and saw him live a few times. This is not his strongest album. If he had an editor and some different production choices had been made, this would be a better record. While some songs border on great (Rescue Blues, When the Stars Go Blue, New York, New York), there is a lot of filler here that brings the album into average territory. 3 stars. Also, fuck this guy.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

Never heard of this, but liked it. Comparable to Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Had never heard this before. Outstanding record.

Ramones

5/5

No skips here

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Woof. The beats on this album are surprisingly tedious, but not as tedious as the lyrics. Eminem is probably the most overrated rapper of all time. This dude owes his career to being white and ripping off the Insane Clown Posse.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5