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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Solid Air John Martyn	5	3.17	+1.83
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	5	3.3	+1.7
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	5	3.39	+1.61
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Mothership Connection Parliament	5	3.61	+1.39
Dummy Portishead	5	3.71	+1.29
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	5	3.87	+1.13
Lazer Guided Melodies Spiritualized	4	2.92	+1.08

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Elephant The White Stripes	2	3.85	-1.85
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	2	3.73	-1.73
Arrival ABBA	2	3.51	-1.51
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	3.49	-1.49
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	2	3.39	-1.39
The Bones Of What You Believe CHVRCHES	2	3.18	-1.18
Too Rye Ay Dexys Midnight Runners	2	3.12	-1.12
The Libertines The Libertines	2	3.01	-1.01

5-Star Albums (11)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

All Ratings

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Favorite track(s): Fu-Gee-La, Killing Me Softly With His Song, Cowboys

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Favorite track(s): Tiny Dancer, Madman Across The Water, Indian Sunset

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Favorite track(s): Love Vigilantes, The Perfect Kiss, Sunrise

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Favorite track(s): Soubour, Irganda, Al Hassidi Terei

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Favorite track(s): You Want It Darker, Traveling Light, It Seemed the Better Way

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Favorite track(s): Immigrant Song, Since I've Been Loving You, Gallows Pole Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Favorite track(s): Rio, My Own Way, Save a Prayer Heard before Previous rating: 8/10

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Favorite track(s): 5000 Miles West of the Future, Red Eye to Jupiter

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

5/5

Favorite track(s): Plastico, Pedro Navaja, Siembra

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Favorite track(s): The World is Yours, Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park), One Love Heard before Previous rating: 8/10

Low

David Bowie

5/5

Favorite track(s): Breaking Glass, Sound and Vision, Warszawa Heard before Previous rating: 9/10

Ramones

3/5

Favorite track(s): Blitzkrieg Bop, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Favorite track(s): Mystic Lady, The Slider, Buick Mackane

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Favorite track(s): Metal Gods, Breaking the Law, Grinder

World Clique

Deee-Lite

2/5

Favorite track(s): Groove Is in the Heart

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Favorite track(s): Honky Tonk Heroes, Omaha, Black Rose

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Favorite track(s): Sour Times, Strangers, Roads, Pedestal

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Favorite track(s): Moon Dreams, Budo

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Favorite track(s): Pitch the Baby, Fifty-Fifty Clown, Heaven or Las Vegas, Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires

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

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Favorite track(s): Frankly they all sound so similar that I couldn't distinguish one from any other

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Favorite track(s): America, Punky's Dilemma, A Hazy Shade of Winter

Cypress Hill

3/5

Favorite track(s): How I Could Just Kill a Man, Real Estate, Psycobetabuckdown

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Favorite track(s): American Pie, Vincent, Winterwood

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Favorite track(s): Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Favorite track(s): Halo of Ashes, All I Know, Witness

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Favorite track(s): Sister, Sacred Attention

The Cars

3/5

Favorite track(s): Just What I Needed, Don't Cha Stop

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Favorite track(s): it's all straight bangers Heard before Previous rating: 9/10

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Favorite track(s): Let's Make This Precious, Liars A to E

The xx

3/5

Favorite track(s): Crystalised, Fantasy, Infinity

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Favorite track(s): Heads Will Roll, Dull Life

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Favorite track(s): Autobahn Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Favorite track(s): Young Americans, Right, Fame Heard before Previous rating: 6/10

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

Favorite track(s): Movin' on Up, Higher Than the Sun, Damaged

Paul Simon

4/5

Favorite track(s): Mother and Child Reunion, Armistice Day, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Favorite track(s): Good Times, A Warm Summer Night

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

Favorite track(s): Victoria, Brainwashed, Australia, Shangri-La, She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina Heard before Previous rating: 9/10

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Favorite track(s): Lust for Life, Some Weird Sin, The Passenger Heard before Previous rating: 8/10

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

Favorite track(s): no standouts, perfectly inoffensive, could've listen to Lorde or Charli instead

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Favorite track(s): Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Rene, Song of a Baker

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Favorite track(s): Planet Telex, High and Dry, Just Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Favorite track(s): Neighborhood #2 (Laika), Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), Wake Up Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Favorite track(s): proof that depression and addiction and bankruptcy can't turn an okay songwriter into a good songwriter

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Favorite track(s): You're Still on My Mind, One Hundred Years from Now, Nothing Was Delivered

Elephant

The White Stripes

2/5

Favorite track(s): clearly I don't possess the right kind of white boy angst to enjoy this. Also Jack White's solos suck

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Favorite track(s): The Face I Love, Oba Oba, My Foolish Heart

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Favorite track(s): Help Me, Car on a Hill, Down to You

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Favorite track(s): who cares man, it's Christmas

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Favorite track(s): LP 1: But Not For Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It LP 2: The Man I Love LP 3: For You, for Me, for Evermore, Of Thee I Sing (Baby) LP 4: Slap That Bass, Love Walked In LP 5: Embraceable You What are they doing putting boxsets on this list?

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Favorite track(s): Shameika, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Relay, Newspaper

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Favorite track(s): Lost, Plateau, Oh, Me, I'm a Mindless Idiot

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Favorite track(s): Straight Outta Compton, Fuck Tha Police, Gangsta Gangsta, Express Yourself

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Favorite track(s): California Stars, Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key, Christ for President

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Favorite track(s): Frustration, Sex Dwarf, Chips on My Shoulder

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Favorite track(s): Too High, Golden Lady, Higher Ground, Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing Heard before Previous rating: 8/10

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

Favorite track(s): Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Gouge Away Heard before Previous rating: 8/10

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Favorite track(s): Holes, Opus 40, Goddess on a Hiway, The Funny Bird

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

Favorite track(s): Highway Star, Child in Time, Smoke on the Water, Space Truckin'

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Favorite track(s): it's all the nastiest funk in the universe, only on WEFUNK Heard before Previous rating: 10/10

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Favorite track(s): Cry to Me, Can't Nobody Love You, You're Good for Me

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

Favorite track(s): all pretty milquetoast except for the title track and Musclecar Reform Reprise which are absolutely infuriating

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Favorite track(s): There Goes the fear, N.Y., Pounding, Caught by the River

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

Favorite track(s): Dancing Queen, Money, Money, Money

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Favorite track(s): Pipes Honour Made for good background music while reading, but maybe I don't slonk gang weed enough for this to stand out

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Favorite track(s): The Sensual World, The Fog, Heads We're Dancing, Rocket's Tail

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Favorite track(s): Message in a Bottle, Walking on the Moon, The Bed's Too Big Without You, No Time This Time Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

Favorite track(s): Solid Air, Don't Want to Know, I'd Rather Be the Devil, Dreams by the Sea, The Man in the Station

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Favorite track(s): Drunk in Love, Blow

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Favorite track(s): I Saw the Light, It Takes Two to Tango (This Is for the Girls), Sweeter Memories, Black Maria, Couldn't I Just Tell You, Little Red Lights, Hello It's Me, Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me, Don't blame me because there are so many good tracks, blame Todd and his Ritalin

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Favorite track(s): Sympathy for the Devil, No Expectations, Street Fighting Man Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Favorite track(s): Stan, The Way I Am, The Real Slim Shady

The Libertines

2/5

Favorite track(s): Another victim of the time and place that birthed this list, a desperate hope that kids in Britain would revive rock music in the early 2000s. You figure out for yourself how that went.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Favorite track(s): Girl from the North Country, Masters of War, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Corrina, Corrina Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Favorite track(s): bootleg Bjork and a Tally Hall reject cause immense aura damage to even some of the greatest songwriters

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Favorite track(s): Desafinado, E luxo so

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Favorite track(s): Blue Rondo a la Turk, Strange Meadow Lark, Take Five Heard before Previous rating: 7/10

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Favorite track(s): what is there to say (besides that this isn't even their best album)? Heard before Previous rating: 9/10

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Favorite track(s): A New Level, This Love I think my lack of a female partner who I desire to make the victim of physical violence hinders my potential enjoyment of this album.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Favorite track(s): There Goes Norman, Tearproof, Wednesday Week

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Favorite track(s): No Woman, No Cry, Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block), Revolution Heard before Previous rating: 8/10

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Favorite track(s): Execution of a Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy Pt. 2), Check the Technique

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Favorite track(s): If I Were with Her Now, Symphony Space, Take Your Time, Sway

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Favorite track(s): Protection, Weather Storm, Euro Child

Violent Femmes

4/5

Favorite track(s): Blister in the Sun, Kiss Off, Add It Up, Prove My Love, To the Kill

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Favorite track(s): Joni herself said there's not a dishonest note on this whole album. A rare and astounding feat.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Favorite track(s): please there was more music coming out in the 2010s that wasn't trying to salvage rock please we can't keep doing this