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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	4	2.83	+1.17
Better Living Through Chemistry Fatboy Slim	4	2.99	+1.01
Felt Mountain Goldfrapp	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Raw Power The Stooges	1	3.32	-2.32
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Otis Redding	2	3.93	-1.93
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.7	-1.7
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	2	3.53	-1.53
Disraeli Gears Cream	2	3.47	-1.47
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	2	3.44	-1.44
My Generation The Who	2	3.43	-1.43
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39
Music From Big Pink The Band	2	3.36	-1.36
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	2	3.14	-1.14

Popular Reviews

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Cool sounds, but it's amazing that Bob Dylan gets so much shit for being incomprehensible when Radiohead exists. I think I parsed 1% of the lyrics at most.

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In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

A bit maudlin for my tastes, even when I'm feeling maudlin myself. Still, quite pleasant and listenable.

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Not really my thing. Songs generally landed somewhere between "dollar store Beatles" and "basically OK."

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

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Completely listenable. Good instrumentals, unremarkable lyrics.

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

A lot better than "My Generation". Surprising amount of covers. Maybe that was just how things were done back in the day?

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Not a huge fan of mumbling acoustic guitar guy in general, but I really liked the imagery in A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, and the Abraham Lincoln joke in Talkin World War III Blues.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Cool sounds, but it's amazing that Bob Dylan gets so much shit for being incomprehensible when Radiohead exists. I think I parsed 1% of the lyrics at most.

Raw Power

The Stooges

1/5

DNF. I trudged through half an hour of Iggy Pop mumble-screaming while his guitarist played over him before deciding I respect myself too much to suffer through another two hours of this, and I don't respect myself very much. I don't understand how this album is on a list of "albums you must hear before you die" except as a cautionary tale.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Pleasant but unexciting. Mostly, the music just faded into the background. People's Parties and Twisted were the standouts for me and the reason this is getting a 3 rather than a 2.

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Yeah, it's the Rolling Stones.

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

I can't tell whether this album sounds like all other Black Metal, or if all other Black Metal sounds like this album. Either way, not really my thing. I prefer singing to screaming/growling. Teacher's Pet is a pretty funny track, though.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Pretty good.

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

I started out hating it and was seriously considering DNFing during the first song, but it grew on me. It feels like it could be the soundtrack to an Earthbound-like game. Wilmot was the standout track and the one I saved to put in regular rotation.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Solidly OK.

New York Dolls

2/5

OK/10

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

I thought I knew the Beach Boys, but this album showed me a whole new side of them. I liked the slower, more thoughtful songs and lyrics.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

I continue to be impressed by Dylan as a lyricist but not so much as a singer or musician.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Good background beats.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Solid listen. I feel like I'm writing this a lot, but 3/5 in my scale basically means "happy to listen to the album, but wouldn't explicitly seek it out to play" and that covers a lot of the spectrum.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

My first 4! I'm not exactly sure I'd call it music, but it was a lot of pleasing noises in my ears.

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