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1960

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
GI Germs	5	2.53	+2.47
Low-Life New Order	5	3.29	+1.71
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.31	+1.69
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.33	+1.67
Tommy The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.35	+1.65
From Elvis In Memphis Elvis Presley	5	3.35	+1.65

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Velvet Underground	2	5
Pixies	2	5

5-Star Albums (28)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Love this record.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Excellent

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Very funky.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Nice sonic wallpaper.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Still good.

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

lovely, makes me want to drive through the desert

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Can't believe I'd never listened to this as an album before. Three big FM radio staples that are still not tiresome despite having been fed them via various media for literally my entire life (this record was in production and came out pretty much simultaneously with me, in August 1972, albeit with a lot more planning)... and the less familiar tracks are also highly enjoyable. Also can't believe I didn't realize "Dirty Work" was a Dan tune until I saw the movie "American Hustle" (which features it perfectly) and happened to stay and read the credits. Great album, looking forward to checking out the other SD albums I'm not so familiar with. I've played the vinyl of "Pretzel Logic" and "Aja" many times, and found "FM" to be a most agreeable jukebox record, but the second and third albums are on my list of things to explore... maybe today while painting my kitchen in the Ono style. It must be said, though... the cover art for this one is pretty hideous. Did I ignore it for decades because it looked like a low-budget cash grab by a borderline-bootleg label, and not a genuine masterpiece of popular music? This is one book that ought not be judged by its cover.

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Smooth, effective. A little too much scat singing for my taste.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Ethereal as all get out

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Pretty solid Neil, perhaps lacking the intensity provided by Crazy Horse, but still highly re-listensble. I'm reminded of a friend who used to play this record at her canasta nights, but would always get up to lift the needle and skip "A Man Needs a Maid." I guess she hated that song. Was it just the title that irked her? I've never paid much attention to the other lyrics... but it sounds good musically.

Music

Madonna

4/5

This is pretty groovy. I really only knew the title track (inescapable hit single)... it all hangs together quite nicely.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Never heard of this before. Honestly didn't listen close... I'm painting my kitchen and just need background noise... but it sounded good.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Always weird to see the yellow cover as opposed to the US one which is... green and orange? This kinda changed my life when I first heard it in 1987. Pretty sure I bought it with my lunch money, brought it home on the tarc bus and played it loud on my folks' Fisher console. In the years since, almost every music that connected with me had at least some punk influence... and this is unquestionably the quintessential punk album. Happy to add it to my queue.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Choose life.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

More experimental than I was expecting.... will likely re-listen.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Haven't listened lately, but got into it in the early aughts through the magic of internet piracy. Never would have bought it... it really had very little critical or popular esteem until this century. But it's very enjoyable. Not up to the standards if Pet Sounds... but what us? And being a sleeper record, it has the strong benefit of not being played-out and overhyped. I dig it.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Pretenders

5/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

4/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Playing "Shahbaaz" rather than this, as this is not on Apple currently... but damn, this guy is prolific! Dozens, nay hundreds of recordings over the past several decades. No way I can commit to a deep dive here, but it is exciting music.

Low-Life

New Order

5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5