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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The La's The La's	5	3.15	+1.85
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Live! Fela Kuti	5	3.44	+1.56
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	5	3.44	+1.56
Timeless Goldie	4	2.53	+1.47
Low David Bowie	5	3.55	+1.45
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	4	2.81	+1.19
White Light Gene Clark	4	2.84	+1.16
Heroes to Zeros The Beta Band	4	2.91	+1.09
Rapture Anita Baker	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	2	4.22	-2.22
16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens	1	2.94	-1.94
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.61	-1.61
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes	2	3.4	-1.4
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	2	3.34	-1.34
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	2	3.3	-1.3
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks · 1 likes

3/5

I was surprised by how low-fi this was, shows why the Beatles were such an outlier for their time. The songs were great, the performances could use some love. I'm finally publicly admitting: I've never gotten the effusive love for Waterloo Sunset.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü · 1 likes

3/5

I liked some songs on here, there was occasionally nice melody in the guitar work... but eh? Really blended together by the end.

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Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

I mean, it's Zeppelin 2. There's no standout track when it's wall to wall bangers. Though the riffs in Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker, and that goddamn bassline in Ramble On. It's damn near perfect.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

It's a classic, but I don't love it, it doesn't speak to me. I don't want to listen to Nico or Lou Reed. Has its moments, the dissonances in Venus In Furs. Heroin. Not going to turn it off, but not going to seek it out.

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

This album lives rent free in my head. Yes made "better" albums, but this is almost surely be the one I go back to the most. Holy shit, Starship Trooper? Go back and listen to that song again. Do it. Man, this album.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

This was fun, pure old Vegasy lounge show. Highlights: The original Jump, Jive 'n Wail, Night Train, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Feels good. Just feels good. From soulful, to funky, to bluesy. Just feels good. Highlight tracks: Let's Stay Together, La-La for You, It Ain't No Fun to Me.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

I'm sure for someone, many someones, these songs are classics. I mean, Jump, Panama, Hot For Teacher... all good songs. But Eddie was too talented for the songs he wanted to write. It's good.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Oh man, this album's got so much character. The guitar work was so engaging, and Siouxsie's voice... such a contrast with the previous album, and boy it benefits. Highlights: Spellbound, Into the Light.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

It just rocks. There's not much more to say.

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

I was not in the mood for this album. I might revisit, but compared to Siouxsie in the same vein ol' Rob just seemed whiny today.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

This album sounded so big... but also so dark. Like it was leaden. There's a differently mixed, maybe arranged version of this album somewhere that I would probably find great.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

This was wierd... way wierd. Wierder than I expected. And I was here for it.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

You know, if I had listened to this album when I was in my teens, it'd be a 3 star album. The only knock is the lyrics are... teeny. But the songs are sick AF.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

If I review a rap album using the word bloviating, will they finally give me my "Whitest Man Ever" award? The beats in this album are incredibly sick. The rhymes are... fine? They go hard enough, they're just not interesting.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

If this album was just the instrumentals, 3 stars. That title theme? Amazing. So good. Compositionally interesting all over the place, but too many of the songs overall were inconsistent to my likes.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

The greatest album from one of the greatest bands of all time. Shocker, it's an end-to-end stunner. Not perfect, but damn near close.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

I liked some songs on here, there was occasionally nice melody in the guitar work... but eh? Really blended together by the end.

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

And that's why they call her the velour fog? The production sounds dated, but her voice sure doesn't! Really nice, sumptuous.

Low

David Bowie

5/5

The second half of this album is tough, because it's great, but it's not... Another Green World, or something. But it was more influential than that, because Bowie did it. On the other hand, Another Green World didn't have a side of incredible Bowie ass Bowie songs. F me, Sound and Vision. The drums on this album. Love it.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

2/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I love this era of the Stones. And between Wild Horses, and Can't You Hear Me Knocking... this album may be THE album? Love it.

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