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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.46	+1.54
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.5	+1.5
Electric Warrior T. Rex	5	3.53	+1.47
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	5	3.55	+1.45
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Hotel California Eagles	1	3.59	-2.59
Your Arsenal Morrissey	1	3.05	-2.05
Gold Ryan Adams	1	2.84	-1.84
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.61	-1.61
American Gothic David Ackles	1	2.48	-1.48
Aqualung Jethro Tull	2	3.44	-1.44
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	2	3.22	-1.22
The Wall Pink Floyd	3	4.13	-1.13
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	2	3.05	-1.05
Ray Of Light Madonna	2	3	-1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Fela Kuti	2	5

5-Star Albums (16)

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1-Star Albums (4)

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The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Iconic and maybe most accessible, but by no means my favorite VU.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

A banger of a live album.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

A fantastic album, though I'm more of a BLUE fan.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

This album has moments, particularly The Killing Moon, but it's mostly not my thing.

Dire Straits

3/5

It's fine. I don't think I'd put in on intentionally, but I wouldn't be upset to hear it. Brothers in Arms must be elsewhere in this 1001.

The Specials

4/5

2 Tone ska is not the ska kids hear when there's extra mozzarella sticks.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

This kind of blues is just not my thing.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

I absolutely recognize these songs are good, but growing up Italian-American you hear A Lot Of Frank Sinatra. It's hard to separate the music from so much personal context.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

I love this album

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Their first and best album. Everything after this had a song or two I liked, but wasn't nearly as solid.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

I recognize the talent, but I don't enjoy the delivery.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Another blind spot for me, and I enjoyed it.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

There's a lot of "this song really rips after the initial Ozzy drone part" here. Also there are songs called Electric Funeral and Rat Salad. HOT TAKE: The second half of this is as good as the first half.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Wildly inconsistent. Feels like an odds and sods collection. A couple of good tracks.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

A good album that I wouldn't normally listen to. That's a three star rating, baby

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

Wow, no. Between this and the Big Star selection, I'm starting to question this list.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

Not for me. I can handle maybe one song at a time, but not a whole album.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

A jazz funk banger that the office will mostly hate.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

This guy can eat shit.

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

A delightfully messy album

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

I enjoy the singles and the general vibe was good for Halloween.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Look, it *starts* with "Respect"

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

A club sampler of its time

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

There's even more bangers than I remember on this one.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Not my favorite Neil, but there's some classics.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

I recognize the talent, but this is not my preferred flavor of jazz. Also, way too much talking on this, even for a live album.

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Another "shame he succumbed to farm equipment" guy.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

I'm not a huge fan of the G-funk, but this album gave us Deez Nuts, so it's Important.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Better than I remembered!

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

Another "not the album I would've chosen by this band" selections

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

This is better than The Chronic.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Contrary to what pre-40s me might've said, Steely Dan is good. Again this app makes a "not their most popular album" choice. Any major dude will tell you.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

It's fine, but it ain't The Jam. It's aging rocker music.

Van Halen

3/5

A weird amount of Shoo Be Doo Wah for a good guitar album

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

A little too soft and quiet to grab me.

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

It's more interesting to me than when it came out, but I still can't imagine purposely engaging with it.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

It's their best one.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

I am not a blues appreciator, but this one is pretty good.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

It's jazz.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

A lotta bangers on this one

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Not the best recording but a great band

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Honestly, better than I expected.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

This album is big and dumb and problematic, but I love it. When I was too tired to think as a new parent, I could always remember the words to "Paul Revere"

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

4/5

I did not know this album, but I like it a lot

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

This made realize they never play Miles on the local jazz station because his tracks are too long

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Classic

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

The last good one

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Oh fuck yeah hell yeah. I knew the breakdown from Raining Blood before I knew the song or artist.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Every song is too long, but it rips.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

I like jazz but this was a little too "background dinner jazz" for me.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

The best Christmas album?

Hotel California

Eagles

1/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

It's okay. I just don't love a full Queen album.

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Common

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

Really enjoyed this

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

My favorite Joni album.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

It's fine. Maybe your for their 5th best album.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

It probably deserves 4 stars, but I just don't love her voice.

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

I like the hits here well enough, but that's all I need.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Bluesy Zeppelin riffs with enough Satan to freak out the squares.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

Greatest cover art of all time and a total banger. One of 2 essential T. Rex albums; the other is The Slider.

Faith

George Michael

4/5

The first 3 tapes I ever bought with my own money were Wham! My mom wouldn't let me buy this album because of "I Want Your Sex."

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

I love them, but i can't really listen to more than a few Run DMC tracks in a row without it feeling too repetitive

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

I was unfamiliar with this one and I can see why.

The Stone Roses

3/5

Moby Grape

3/5

I think I thought this band was more psychedelic

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

It's a mood.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

No, no, not that dark!

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Not for me

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

The easiest 5 stars yet.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

A new-to-me banger!

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

Incidentally, the Yo La Tengo cover of Hanky Panky Nohow cover is delightful.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Fine, but not my scene

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5