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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.81	+1.19
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Superunknown Soundgarden	1	3.65	-2.65
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	1	3.63	-2.63
Ace of Spades Motörhead	1	3.29	-2.29
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	1	3.17	-2.17
Disintegration The Cure	2	3.86	-1.86
Konnichiwa Skepta	1	2.73	-1.73
Welcome to the Afterfuture Mike Ladd	1	2.57	-1.57
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	2	3.52	-1.52
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	2	3.4	-1.4
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39

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The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

3/5 album. I like the dark vibe. The first songs are great, but then it gets a bit boring.

The xx

3/5

Good for late-night ambient. Nothing too spectacular, but some of the songs are catchy. "Infinity" is a highlight.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

Definitely not my music type, but I’m giving it an extra point because it contains some loops that reminded me of my Casio keyboard from the early 90s.

Black Sabbath

4/5

This is a foundational album. The birth of metal. To come up with this sound in 1970, while the world was largely still into psychedelia, is impressive.

Metallica

4/5

Excellent level of production. This is a very well-polished metal album, which is great because… it doesn’t always sound like metal. There’s melodies and ballads, and those are the highlights that made this an all-time classic.

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

It’s impossible to listen to this in full while seating in a sofa. The sound is great and I can see why it’s fantastic for a dance floor, but it’s sooooo repetitive! Long live Daft Punk, though.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

This is clearly not Zeppelin’s best album, but it’s still a Zeppelin album. 3/5 in my books.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Meh…

Disintegration

The Cure

2/5

Very boring

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Wonderful album. The most adult version of the Beach Boys. It’s more complex and hits different to all the others.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Good old classic rock and roll.

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Best Coldplay album, and one of the best 2000s albums overall. This was really something when it came out: a new sound, great melodies, and a perfect flow from beginning to end. Everything’s not lost is a hell of a closing track.

Blur

4/5

Music

Madonna

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

The world is a better place because of this album.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

WHERE CAN I FIND MORE STARS? 5 IS NOT ENOUGH.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Amazing production (like always with MJ’s albums) and some good songs, but it’s a bit too soft and doesn’t have the punch of others.

Van Halen

4/5

Good stuff! Much better than I thought. I learned something new today.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

I know how significant this album was for heavy metal, the impact it had when it came out, and the place it deserves in music history. Yet, I can't help but default to the basics: This is not my type of music and I can't give it a full listen in one go. 3 stars.

Iron Maiden

2/5

Boring…

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

3/5

This album delivers exactly what its title promises. Not spectacular, but not bad at all either. I listened to it during a road trip, which made it a good fit. 3 stars.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Too much noise for me. In the end is a great song, and that’s it.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

The genesis of alternative music. So many bands drew inspiration from here. It lacks polish and melody though, and so it gets monotonous and boring at times.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

Very standard 80’s new wave sound. I didn’t know this band or album existed, and I probably won’t remember them after having listened to this.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Absolutely fantastic. This album symbolizes all the best about Laurel Canyon Folk. Melodies are beautiful. Lyrics are simple but powerful. Portrait of a place and an era.

Boston

3/5

This is just like listening to German radio any day. 80s dad rock in its purest form.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

This is absolute shit. I can’t even get over the 30-second mark of any song here.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

This was a positive surprise. I had never heard of this band before, but what they did here is really good stuff. Very enjoyable from beginning to end. No skips album.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Excellent stuff. The Beach Boys meet the Beatles. You can’t go wrong with that.

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

1/5

Absolute shit

John Prine

2/5

Baby Dylan. Angel from Montgomery is a great song, but that’s about it. The album is monotonous and boring, like most old-school folk.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

2/5

All due respect to Van Morrison who has made some amazing albums, but there’s no way that this random list of 18 live songs is something you must listen to before you die.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

This album is odd. It has a unique sound which I really like and it's also great in terms of quality of production. However, the flow is quite monotone and all songs are indistinguishable from each other. It lacks a hit or two. Very good background music, though.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

This is music for a Tarantino movie. You listen to any of this songs and you know that the villain is just about to come in and start a very bloody shootout. 3 stars.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Not bad at all. Not great either.

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Wonderful. This is the moment Radiohead found their sound and paved the way for the (arguably) best album of the 90s. This is like Revolver before Sgt Pepper. It’s very experimental, but it’s so good that it became mainstream.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

Absolute crap

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Good, but not as good as the earlier Police albums. Sure, Every breath you take is a massive hit, but other than that the flow is a little bit dull.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars