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1970

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.74	+2.26
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	5	2.98	+2.02
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	5	3.07	+1.93
Hejira Joni Mitchell	5	3.14	+1.86
Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen	5	3.2	+1.8
Vivid Living Colour	5	3.21	+1.79
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	4	2.24	+1.76
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Wonderful Rainbow Lightning Bolt	4	2.29	+1.71
Queens of the Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age	5	3.3	+1.7

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.72	-1.72
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	2	3.42	-1.42
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	2	3.3	-1.3
Beautiful Freak Eels	2	3.27	-1.27
Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian	2	3.22	-1.22
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	1	2.12	-1.12
Groovin' The Young Rascals	2	3.04	-1.04

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Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Led Zeppelin	2	5
David Bowie	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (41)

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

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Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues · 1 likes

3/5

Bridges the gap between traditional american blues rock and the more typical tuareg music. Very cool. Good for anyone wanting to dip their toes into that sound.

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Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

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

The Kinks

5/5

Vivid

Living Colour

5/5

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

5/5

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Cut

The Slits

3/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

5/5

Technique

New Order

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Ramones

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

4/5

Something I can listen to in bursts. A really cool sound. 1/2 hardcore punk, 1/2 freejazz.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

3.5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

War

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

5/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Love how crazy but smooth this is.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Roxy Music

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Bridges the gap between traditional american blues rock and the more typical tuareg music. Very cool. Good for anyone wanting to dip their toes into that sound.

Van Halen

5/5

Le Tigre

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

2112

Rush

5/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

3/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Yes I do like jazz Mr. Benson. What about it?

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Talvin Singh

2/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Garbage

4/5

3.5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

3.5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

3.5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

3.5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The Stones arguably at their best and most boisterous. Some of their best ballads and some of their best rockers. Bitch, Wild Horses, Knocking, Dead Flowers, and controversially, Brown Sugar. Regarding Brown Sugar, I want to give my two cents. I know a lot of people have written off this song and their minds can not be changed. If that is you, I don't wish to change your mind or belittle your feelings. The opinion that this song is offensive/fetish is valid and fair, and ultimately your gut feeling when listening to the lyrics is probably the most correct feeling for you. I just see it a bit differently. Its a long-held tradition in rock/metal/punk to write the lyrics to your song from the perspective of horrible, despicable people. For an example of this, just look at any number of anti-fascist punk songs that feature a fascist narrator to illustrate how disgusting the ideology is. Mick Jagger was no stranger to this, especially as his life stabilized throughout the 70's. I don't know if he ever stated it explicitly, but this song has always seemed to me as an example of that. Its always read to me as Mick calling out the hypocrisy of the racist white oppressors who also fetishize black women. The lyrics are despicable BECAUSE he is portraying a despicable person. This is Mick Jagger's Colonel Lockjaw. If you disagree, or the song still makes you sick to your stomach, that's fine. That's just how I see things.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

A few too many songs. 3.5

The Cars

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Been a life long Lizzy fan so I'm biased. This plays like a greatest hits collection almost. My only complaint is that most songs are played straight with no cool interludes or jams, but other than that, the energy here is palpable. Put this on while driving a long curvy road and prepare to feel pure joy. Better than Kiss Alive and Frampton Comes Alive any day.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

I liked Behaviour. This is more of the same.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

I'm a Georgia native, so the history of Appalachia fascinates me. I was not excited to listen to this album but as soon as I put it on, I was blown away. The sound of this is bluegrass and country staples played fairly straight but with plenty of skill from people who very obviously cared about these songs and their cultural significance. Some of these players had been playing these songs for nearly 40 years. This is real southern history to be proud of. Populist, beautiful, and full of human spirit. As Georgia becomes more suburbanized and tainted by the stink of capitalism and faceless corporations, as more and more of our resources and land is gobbled up for data centers, mining, and other industries, its sad to see that most of this history is forgotten in the wake. I tell everyone I know to listen to the Allman Brothers, or Blackfoot, or Atlanta Rhythm Section. I tell them to learn about Georgia's heroes before the big boom period of the 90s and now. I tell them to learn more about Jimmy Carter and his legacy outside the White House. This album will absolutely be added to that cultural canon. A little long for sure, but I wouldn't cut a single song or dialogue part.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

2.5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash