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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.18	+1.82
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.27	+1.73
Faith George Michael	5	3.29	+1.71
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.3	+1.7
Fragile Yes	5	3.32	+1.68
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	5	3.38	+1.62
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Play Moby	5	3.45	+1.55
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.45	+1.55

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	1	3.29	-2.29
Sound Affects The Jam	1	3.25	-2.25
Close To You Carpenters	1	3.13	-2.13
The Coral The Coral	1	3	-2
Midnight Ride Paul Revere & The Raiders	1	2.99	-1.99
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Megadeth	1	2.98	-1.98
Warehouse: Songs And Stories Hüsker Dü	1	2.86	-1.86
m b v My Bloody Valentine	1	2.73	-1.73
Chore of Enchantment Giant Sand	1	2.62	-1.62
Trafalgar Bee Gees	1	2.62	-1.62

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	5
Beatles	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
Brian Eno	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Sonic Youth	3	2

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The Rolling Stones	5, 5, 2

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a classic - at least two tracks will be familiar to almost anyone

Nobody asked Yes to reinvent music in 1971. The British music industry was perfectly happy cranking out blues-derived rock until the planet cooled, and here comes these guys; a bassist who plays like he's trying to start a fight with God, a keyboardist just twenty-three but sounding like he'd stolen the soul of someone with a full classical education, and a guitarist who could make an acoustic sound like a weather system ... deciding that pop songs were basically too small to live in. Fragile is what happens when a gang of weirdos collectively decides that constraints are for people who haven't listened hard enough. It is one of the most arrogant albums ever made. It is also one of the most correct.

Nobody talks about The Beau Brummels anymore, and that is either a crime or a mercy, depending on what kind of mood you're in if they come up. Triangle is the kind of album that lives in the margins of music history. Not forgotten exactly. Just never quite remembered the way it deserves to be. Which is somehow worse. It's like that brilliant friend nobody introduces you to until you're already middle-aged, and then you spend the rest of your life slightly resentful of everyone who could have told you sooner.

Has anyone told you Pretenders doesn't sound like an album trying to matter? It sounds like a band playing in a room because that's what they do. You can almost smell the rehearsal space, the cigarette smoke, the slightly-too-warm amp. There's a looseness to it, a physical quality. James Honeyman-Scott's guitar work has the kind of melodic instinct that most guitarists spend careers reaching for and never touch. Pete Farndon holds the bottom end like a man leaning against a wall he knows will hold. Martin Chambers hits the drums like he's trying to leave a mark. And then there's Hynde, who sounds like she's singing directly at whoever broke her heart last Tuesday. And also at you, personally. For reasons she hasn't explained yet.

a short record, and maybe that’s why it still works: it doesn’t overstay the feeling.

just found out how Harry ended up. Gutted. RIP Harry

How many times have you seen this album cover and NOT noticed Mick's balls? If you're me, hundreds of times at least. now it's all I see. and probably all you do too. You're welcome.

solid and underappreciated record from Skunk Anansie, a British rock band fronted by the extraordinary Skin — one of the most powerful vocalists of her era. The album leans harder into electronic and trip-hop textures than their earlier work, without abandoning the abrasive rock energy that made them. It's not a perfect record, but it's ambitious and emotionally raw in ways that hold up. It was their commercial and critical peak in the UK, and it deserved more attention than it got.