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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Kenya Machito	5	3.27	+1.73
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	5	3.31	+1.69
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Garbage Garbage	5	3.38	+1.62
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.43	+1.57
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	5	3.45	+1.55
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	5	3.5	+1.5

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Madman Across The Water Elton John	2	3.59	-1.59
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	2	3.18	-1.18
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	2	3.16	-1.16
Devil Without A Cause Kid Rock	1	2.06	-1.06

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Vulnicura

Björk

5/5

Like floating on an electric cloud

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

A real toe tapper.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Not for me...

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

I had really only known most of these songs as singles on the radio back in the mid 90's. To hear them all together, parse the lyrics, and feel the vibe is to recontextualize this album as a 40 minute suicide note. RIP Kurt. Your songs will outlive us all.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Great vibes

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Honestly this album didn't really kick into gear for me until the second half. Just like being in the suburbs I was lulled into a strange calm until something strange kicked me awake.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

I was on a walk listening to this album when track 3, Staraflur, came on timed perfectly with the sun breaking through the clouds. I can't think of a nicer moment in recent history. This album combines those ments of transcendent beauty I associate with Sigur Ros, with more rock elements than their later work which I'm more familiar with. I also have a sneaking suspicion that if you played it backwards it would be Radiohead.

The Clash

4/5

This is really good. I think the Clash didn't properly become themselves until London Calling, but this is still an engaging record.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Ok, I was not looking forward to this. American Idiot seemed like one of those fangless relics of Bush era discontent that was further watered down by endless radio and MTV exposure. It's actually pretty good minus songs like Boulevard of Broken Dreams, turning into a rousing rock opera by the end. However, it's a little too monotonous along the way... no Greenday album should be a full hour long.

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

This one track, Getting Bright At Night, was a great post-rock song. The rest of the album was pretty boring. Sometimes feels like early Nick Cave, Fugazi, etc.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Although this album contains some of my least favorite attributes of aughts hip-hop (skits, casual misogyny, excessive guest stars) it also features some of the most iconic hip-hop songs of our millenium. Stylistically it's all over the place... if Speakerboxx/The Love below is Outkast's White Album, this is Rubbersoul: an album pushing against the boundaries of genre.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

I love Elton John, but there's a reason that the only song I've heard from this album is Tiny Dancer.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Despite sounding a little corny and easy-listening adjacent, the vibe won me over. This is a chill album.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

This is one of the worst musical atrocities ever committed. I actually purchased this album when it was new and boy was I disappointed by how terrible it was.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

This is a fun album. Bouncy, fast paced, and satirical in all the best ways.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Scissor Sisters

4/5

This was a lot of fun. Elton John with David Bowie, and George Michael, plus some fun dance hall moves of their own.

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Transcends easy listening 80's jazz to create an enveloping, soulful fog for the listener. I loved this.

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Not for me. It does rock, though.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

4/5

This was a really good listen, it feels both classic and very modern. You can tell that this band was incredibly influential to rock music in the 2000's.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Springsteen has earned his place in the rock pantheon. Born to run will day in your ears for days, Jungleland will burrow into your soul... can you make it through the whole song without tears? Then, you're stronger than me.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Garbage

5/5

Not just "pop grunge" or whatever they were called back in the day. This is a band with a style that is instantly recognized, that always evokes a feeling, and that you can both hum while skipping or sing low while brooding. Iconic.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

I do love some Blue-eyed Soul, but Blue-eyed Blues? Clapton is good, of course, but this album seriously lacks the proper depth and feeling for blues.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Kenya

Machito

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5