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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	5	3.29	+1.71
Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.52	+1.48
Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder	5	3.56	+1.44
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
The Cars The Cars	5	3.67	+1.33
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	5	3.94	+1.06
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	1	3.29	-2.29
Street Signs Ozomatli	1	2.87	-1.87
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.67	-1.67
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.64	-1.64
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	2	3.55	-1.55
She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper	2	3.48	-1.48
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.44	-1.44
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	2	3.39	-1.39
The Healer John Lee Hooker	2	3.19	-1.19

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Street Signs

Ozomatli

1/5

NPC music - Latin edition. Boring, an on paper decent album of mixed influence that moreso sounds like taking garage band preset tracks and smashing them together.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

1/5

Totally fine, I’m sure great for the time, but not for me. A real happy snoozer

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Wish I’d have listened to this 10 years ago. Haunting, beautiful, awesome. A new fav

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Didn’t make it through, will revisit

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

2/5

I unfortunately kinda get tired of her voice, the hits hit, the rest was ok.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Maybe I’m messed up by listening to aja before this, maybe just not the time for me right now but I’m just not feeling this. Will have to revisit sometime later.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

It’s like Kate Bush leading you through a bad trip. Well made, very interesting but I wouldn’t say I had a good time.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

In its own lane if rock that I hadn’t gone too far down. It’s better than I expected even if it’s still not really for me. I get why people never moved on. Like the souths Beatles, honestly would prefer people go back to this than the creed revival we’re seeing right now.

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Not my fav Bowie, another fine album.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Fun! Very 80s

Boston

4/5

Good, feels essential 70s. More than a feeling is actually a crazy opening to this album. (Didn’t finish tho ahhh)

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Fantastic, will return for further investigation

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Singles were the best. Maybe just not in the mood for it.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

I apologize Mr.Wonder, I was unfamiliar with your game. Fantastic record, fun, heavy at moments, just lyrically on point. Musically nailing it, just a banger of a record.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

A classic album, including badly done unnecessary skits. Versatile, bombastic, and of the era but good beats. Made me consider getting an oversized jersey and tennis hat.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

This is just not up my alley and I think primarily it’s the vocals for me. Better than I thought though and have a newfound respect for ZZ Top.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

Hurrying up to show Rachel how this works, but wow American girl is a great song

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Fantastic, busy right now or would write more but I get why Kurt was so inspired. Top tier

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Rock solid, love CCR my el sobrante bros. A bit short, sweet and to the point.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Always like the flaming lips more than I think I do. Closest to the internal songs of my soul than anything else so far.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

So funny how Sam and I were just stalking megadeth. Solid, shreds but I see why they never rivaled some others of their era. Sometimes it feels like the song structure just is too long, like intro - verse - chorus - solo - bridge - solo - solo - bridge - solo and it began to drag. Would be more into a more focused record from em.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Really spoke to the inner millennial in me, fun 2000s jammers. Saved!

The Joshua Tree

3/5

I get why people were obsessed with this band during their reign but it really feels like a specific time and place. Doesn’t particularly hold up well to me.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

It’s easy to assume Hendrix will be overrated, but I’m always reinspired by how underrated he really is. Guitar skills I still can’t wrap my head around and a smooth voice over some incomparable jammers. This album in particular has a little bit of everything, from laid back to trippy bangers and some classics on there with All Along The Watchtower, an essential top 50 song imo.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

I liked cheap trick before this but this helped me get it more. I would even go on to say that there are moments on this that channel the Beatles in a way I couldn’t have expected. Wish I could have been there myself, fantastic.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

A classic, pinnacle album.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Ok ok, this lived up to the hype. Both fleetwood and max have great pipes. Front loaded for sure though, kind of a weak ending imo.

Common

3/5

I wish the beats were a little more distinct, flows as well all just a little too similar but for what it is it’s great. It does feel like Common kinda just coasted off this for the rest of his career though.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Slower pace than what I usually prefer but once I accepted that I heard a fantastic record. No wonder people sample mayfield so much.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Super fun record, def going in the mix for just fun background jammers. Surf rocky, fun melody, they really know how to lead into a good chorus.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

5/5

Catchy, hooks you in immediately and has the power to sustain throughout. Fully understand why Jbj became a star off this. Added to the library.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

This is an essential 2000s banger of a record. Although hearing a lot of the songs, I hadn’t listened to it front to back before and it’s like if interpol got a bit more poppy and focused.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

AC/DC is probably too ingrained in my commercial psyche to review adequately. Like Highway to Hell is good, but it’s so culturally built in rock that it’s almost like listening to a windex commercial. It is good for what it’s worth, a bit one punch but to the point with their sound.

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Seemed fine but not for me.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

3 legends of their instruments come together and make an album I would never want to listen to again.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Good ass jazz

The Band

3/5

The most southern stuff I've enjoyed since Kurt Vile. The night they drove old Dixie down is an all timer song. Feels very 70s but they were onto something here. It doesn’t hit the highs I felt like they could have, maybe a rick Ruben or someone could have pushed them just over the edge to make this a legendary record. Almost

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Never gave Gang Starr enough attention before this. Immaculate samples (as expected by premier, even this early in his career) and Guru, while not immune to 90s corniness sometimes has such a well paced smooth flow. Loved this one

Microshift

Hookworms

2/5

Paul Simon

3/5

Laid back yet energetic. Really into hobos seemingly. Great background music not in a negative way

The Cars

5/5

This is in my top 5 80s records. It’s just so fun with great riffs and melodies that just keep you on board throughout.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

An essential 80s jammer. Slick production, catchier than hell.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

One of the first albums I bought as a kid so a lot of this is forever engrained into my memory. I would say it’s a great into to modern rock at the time, varied enough, some harder parts and some slower jams with a general anti gov tinge in response to Bush that resonated with me. Zoomed out, I appreciate Green Day being the only ones at the time to speak out against Bush and the War on Terror but it’s a bit muted and as an album it’s fine. The singles are so 2005 I can’t help but be teleported there in my mind but I don’t think they’re great songs? Holiday is alright enough but idk if I just want to ever listen to it really.

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Cool album cover, wasn’t super into the music. I listened to it last week and have really forgotten what it was. So I’ll say forgettable.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

2/5

Not my style, was fine.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Entirely unique did not think that this would be anything like it was something I will go back to you to revisit. It’s to really fully formally my thoughts I don’t think I can do this off one spin but very interesting. I don’t know. I don’t know what this is piano man music but this isn’t piano man is this what Billy Joel was talking about as the piano man interesting is all I can say that’s all that comes to mind. Interesting. I wouldn’t say it’s my most favorite shit but it’s pretty cool it’s not often. I hear stuff that I feel like I haven’t heard before so for that alone, it gets a forward from. four from me.

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

I went in thinking this would be more killer than filler but I was completely incorrect. The singles feel like they were written by a different band they are so much better. Not a single track I hadn’t heard before that I’d want to revisit here. Did spend some time looking at the cover and appreciate the little details there. Also Billie Joe and co were just jerkin and singing about it still 4 albums deep? Lotion on the rider must have been insane.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

A fine Bowie album. More fun than I expected.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

Inspired most musicians I like after him, and the hits here are hits but largely I’m not super into it.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Better than I anticipated, very much of the era but maybe that’s because Coldplay was such a force in the early aughts. Forever muddied by the 40 year old virgin bit haha

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

Definitely inspired tons of guys I do like. Similar to bob dylan that way, where I don’t love them but I love what they began. The best damn hold music you ever heard.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Thought I liked this more than I did with this re-listen. Great at times, blah for many. the first half of total trash is so good, shame they torch it with the latter.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Somewhat blends together for me, good but idk if I’ll ever enjoy it more than passingly. At the time it may have been sick but doesn’t stand out to me.