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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Time (The Revelator)	5	3.05	+1.95
Paul's Boutique	5	3.47	+1.53
Stankonia	5	3.55	+1.45
The Velvet Underground & Nico	5	3.62	+1.38
The Madcap Laughs	4	2.62	+1.38
A Love Supreme	5	3.63	+1.37
Harvest	5	3.83	+1.17
Siamese Dream	5	3.83	+1.17
Mask	4	2.85	+1.15
E.V.O.L.	4	2.89	+1.11

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Foo Fighters	2	3.5	-1.5
Made In Japan	2	3.29	-1.29

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Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Not my personal favorite Beasties album, but probably their most important one. They abandoned the ironic frat boy rap/rock of their debut (which much of their fandom didn't realize was ironic) and, with the help of the Dust Brothers, produced a sample-heavy masterpiece. Chuck D says that when Public Enemy heard it, they realized they needed to seriously up their game.

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The Pogues

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

I don't know much about jazz, but I know this album and I know it's great. Scores of people smarter than me have explained why.

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

David Bowie has some great albums, but I don't think this is one of them. It got a lot of attention on release for the big genre swing, but in 2025 it mostly sounds like Bowie doing R&B not nearly as well as the artists who helped invent it. "Fame" is great, but I could do without most of this album.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

This is going in the "not for me" pile. I appreciate the craft behind these songs, and I recognize that this is some of the best pop music of the time. But I'm kind of allergic to that 80s pop sound.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

I guess I had no idea what The Temptations sounded like, because this is much funkier than I expected. Songs in the second half like "I Ain't Got Nothin'" and this group's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" are closer to the soul vocal group that I think I was expecting. But songs like "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and "Funky Music..." have much more going on instrumentally and are more jam-oriented than I would have guessed. I especially love the live opening track, which really highlights what an incredible band they were.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Physical Graffiti find Led Zeppelin at the height of their success and (maybe) their musicianship. But this album is also the beginning of the end of their creative streak. There are great songs on here, arguably some of the best they ever wrote, but the album is also bogged down by its excess.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

This is one of those bands I think I'm supposed to like, but it doesn't do anything for me

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Great songwriting combined with uncompromising experimentalism make one of the greatest albums of all time

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

2/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

I was kind of meh on this one until the final track

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

I was about to chalk this up as more well-crafted 80s pop that I just don't have a taste for, but then "Mother" started. I had to check that I was still listening to the same album. It sounds like it would be more at home on a Birthday Party record than here. It at least made me think I should listen to this album a little more closely to see if there are any other interesting surprises. There were not.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

I felt like I had put a fair amount of time in this album, heard several impressive guitar solos, a lot of high-pitched wailing, a couple slower sections, definitely enough to get the overall feel of the album. I was getting a little bit bored with it, though, and checked to see how much was left before I can move on to something else. I was still on track 2 3 Stars UPDATE: I got to the part on Strange Kind of Woman where the singer starts a call and response with the guitar, so I'm downgrading this to 2 stars

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5