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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.58	+1.42
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.77	+1.23
Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendrix	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	1	3.34	-2.34
One World John Martyn	1	2.81	-1.81
Ys Joanna Newsom	1	2.79	-1.79
Parallel Lines Blondie	2	3.76	-1.76
Medúlla Björk	1	2.73	-1.73
Trafalgar Bee Gees	1	2.63	-1.63
Moon Safari Air	2	3.57	-1.57
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	2	3.29	-1.29
Emergency On Planet Earth Jamiroquai	2	3.27	-1.27
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	2	3.24	-1.24

5-Star Albums (6)

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Various Artists · 1 likes

3/5

Yep thats Christmas music alright

1-Star Albums (5)

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Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Commitment to noise was fun, lots of grain and fuzz, no memorable songs or song structures, fits a mood but I don't know when I would return 2/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

Boring as sin

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Really pleasant, gorgeous voice, fun premises

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Lovely synths, she has a pretty voice, don't know if there are many memorable tracks past the opener

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Touched by God, just pure excellence everywhere

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Not my favorite blues, but Muddy Waters is such a trailblazer and the live album was fun

Movies

Holger Czukay

3/5

Fun and creative work, last song is 15 minutes of greatness

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

4/5

So therapeutic and special, could return to this once a year

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

So nostalgic, genuinely some of the best 2000's pop/soft rock ever written

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Very danceable, will return when im mote fluent

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Perfectly passable dream pop

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Wasn't particularly gripping, trumpet was too high in the mix, understandably

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Not my favorite Bowie, liked the title track

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

Back half absolutely makes up for the unremarkable front half

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Not dancey or fun enough to be memorable

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Pretty good jazz some standouts

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Has a driving pulse throughout, commits to house and explores some great places. Meanders on two tracks

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

1/5

I gotta keep it a buck, I was bored to tears

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

It's just unhinged fun and danceable energy, full of memorable hooks and beats, yearly listen mandatory

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Some of these songs were hittin

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Not my favorite Sonic Youth by any means but they're always solid, gotta love their edge

One World

John Martyn

1/5

Not my thing at all

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Love Nina's voice and her songwriting is underappreciated, some very good cuts on here

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Everything you could want from jazz

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Hits a lot of the right spots

Joanna Newsom

1/5

I maybe liked one song, but I couldn't wait to listen to something else

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

There's some bops in here, if you asked me what songs they were, I couldn't tell ya

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Can't lie, I was boppin

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Phenomenal beats and undeniable energy and swagger

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Sweet and soothing without being saccharine, makes you think of times and places

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Yeah we get it bro, you like metaphors

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

These brothers sure know how to harmonize, throw this one on the jukebox

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Yep thats Christmas music alright

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

I just cant ignore how cheesy this sounds to my ear

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

May be displaying my lack of intellect but I wish all these songs were 13 minutes

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

These guys know how to write a song man

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Something about that guitar tone man, it's eternal

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Yup. They went for it. They did it.

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

Can hear a ton of influences on subsequent electronic releases

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Outro is so good, instrumental might be the best track on the album

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

I had next to no idea what kind of music Jamiroquai makes, but this was passable

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

I could see myself listening to this at a resort, would make some crazy hip-hop samples

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

I'm so sorry I wanted to turn this off as soon as I started listening

Blur

3/5

Fan discovers the guy behind Gorillaz was good at album rock

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Some of these instrumental passages are 100% pure distilled rock

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Half of it is very grating and then the other half is very forward-thinking

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

Much worse rock on the radio in the mid-aughts

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Not as offensively bad as other '90s rock

Parallel Lines

Blondie

2/5

Kinda crazy that the frontwoman is blonde

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

By The Time I Get To Phoenix being one of the best songs ever recorded certainly helps this one

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Some grooves are easier to catch than others, but it's strangely cohesive enough to be worthwhile