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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	5	3.29	+1.71
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	5	3.45	+1.55
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	5	3.62	+1.38
Pink Moon Nick Drake	5	3.65	+1.35
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	4	2.74	+1.26
In Rainbows Radiohead	5	3.84	+1.16
Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC	4	2.85	+1.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	2	3.25	-1.25
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

5-Star Albums (9)

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Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Feels like substandard britpop.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (1)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Absolute classic album. Not the biggest fan of psychedelia but this is an all timer for a reason

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Really solid Garage Rock Album, catchy songwriting

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Despite what Kanye has turned into. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy still holds tall as a landmark album

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Solid Album. This style of Folksy Pop just isn't for me though. Joan is very important in the musical landscape however.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

A solid mix of really good, classic rock songs and blues.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Its fine, nothing super groundbreaking and a little monotonous

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

Not the First QOTSA Album I would have put on the list but man their debut is still a banger. Starts to lose a little steam toward the end but doesnt fall off enough to lose points.

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Not a terrible group of songs, but man it just feels so long. I feel like it would be a better album with some songs cut from the run time to make it onto a single disc.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Absolute Classic Jazz Fusion album. I understand its def not for everyone but for those who like jazz fusion it is a must listen

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Way ahead of its time for an album that came out in the 60's. Laid the foundations for punk. Unfortunately is a little dated for me. Still a solid listen and good to see the roots of punk starting to show

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

4/5

Hidden gem of an album. Fun trip hop beats. If your into massive attack need to give this another listen

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

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

The Kinks

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Truly a devastating album. Nick's vocals and guitar are masterclass on this.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

Steely Dan is def transitioning from their tight pop on their debut to the more yacht rock sounds they would later come to exemplify but this is still a great showing from the band

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Boston

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

Starts off a little slow, but catchy hooks and lyrics help carry this album higher then i expected it to place

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Album has some Highlights (Come on Eileen, Jackie Wilson) and some solid songwriting. Unfortunately i do feel it comes across as a little samey over the run time. Still a unique sound but songs start to blend together near the end

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

First half of the album is amazing, Walk of Life, Money for Nothing and So far away are great tracks. however after that the album just drags. So many slow tempo songs with some nice guitar arrangements. The back half of the album just starts blending together and is a slog to get through.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

Another kind of listless meandering album. Lead Singer has a good voice but the album just drags on at the same tempo each song and the instrumentals just are meh to me. Nothing really bad but nothing really groundbreaking or memorable either

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Man another album that just feels like a 3. The hits are really strong (Sledgehammer, Big Time, In Your Eyes) but the other songs are just boring slogs to get through and feel like filler

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Good shoegaze album but man it does start to drag on at the end. Original LP release being ~30 minutes is nice. the CD release at 50 minutes is a bit much for my tastes

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

If you live anywhere in the US or the UK im sure you've heard these songs billions of times. You do not need to listen to this album at all. I get what the author was going for but holiday music feels really out of place on this list

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Great album from public enemy. Trailblazers of rap and sampling.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Wonderful Jazz arrangements, Sinatra has a perfect voice for this. Lovely music to lounge to.

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Feels like substandard britpop.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

I just don't really see what made Robbie Williams into such a Megastar in the UK. Angels is an alright ballad and Let Me Entertain You is a nice piece but nothing here screams out to me as a cultural touchstone

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Good Production, Feels like it drags a little long but its also not a genre im super into

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Solid Big Band and Swing Album. I'm Glad its here but not something ill be checking out again anytime soon unfortunately.

1999

Prince

4/5

Prince is a phenomenal Artist and has written a great collection of tracks on this album. I personally dont vibe with some of the tracks and it can go a little bit long. Still a big reccomendation.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Great voice, Great sound. Cold is a stand out track, percussion really stands out. Great listen

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

More 60's psychedelia. I'm sure at the time this was a big deal but I just cannot get into this. There are some nice songs here but it gets bigger down by the trappings of the genre

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Actually really enjoyed this one. Great hooks and melodies and some good production