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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams	5	2.73	+2.27
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno	5	2.79	+2.21
Giant Steps The Boo Radleys	5	2.88	+2.12
The Last Of The True Believers Nanci Griffith	5	2.96	+2.04
Kimono My House Sparks	5	3.06	+1.94
Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers	5	3.11	+1.89
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	5	3.11	+1.89
Sea Change Beck	5	3.33	+1.67
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	5	3.34	+1.66

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
american dream LCD Soundsystem	1	3.17	-2.17
I See You The xx	1	2.97	-1.97
London Calling The Clash	2	3.96	-1.96
Wild Is The Wind Nina Simone	2	3.65	-1.65
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.6	-1.6
Stankonia OutKast	2	3.55	-1.55
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.53	-1.53
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	2	3.5	-1.5
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	2	3.47	-1.47
Third Soft Machine	1	2.45	-1.45

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Artist	Albums	Average
Willie Nelson	2	5

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Artist	Ratings
Radiohead	2, 4, 5

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First 6 tracks may as well be the same dull, uninteresting song, seemingly lacking most semblance of melody or musical direction. “Brave for You,” “On Hold,” and “I Dare You” are the only songs I’d want to hear again. “Test Me” acts profound but is realistically 1 minute of an actual song and 3 minutes of nothingness.

Elton John for the working man. Fun album start to finish. Nothing life changing but understandable why people like it. “Jungleland” is a standout track despite ripping of “Tiny Dancer”

“Mannish Boy” is the source of cliché blues music and it is great

Instrumentals are decent. I can’t for the life of me understand what this guy is saying. If you’re gonna make angry music, you should probably let everyone know what you’re angry about.

I can appreciate what they’re trying to do with the rock opera but it just falls flat. Obnoxious production techniques throughout. (Why does it so often have parts panned over completely into one channel?) Once you get past the production, you’re left with a band that sounds like The Beatles bought off of Temu.

Not bad but in no way memorable

Probably the least interesting David Bowie album

Unique and interesting but this man’s voice is so grating you’ll grow tired of it by the end of the album.

This man needs to learn to sing and stop growling into the microphone

This band REALLY wishes they were Oasis

Performs the magic trick of making an hour and five minutes feel like 3 hours

Very accurate album title

None of the songs here are bad, per se, but other than the title track and “Everybody Loves Me, Baby” the songs all sound very similar. Nothing to dislike here but when 2/3s of your album all sounds alike and unexciting, it makes for a very boring listening experience.

Hints of some truly great pop music but never becomes fully realized. None of the songs on this album are in at least the first 15 songs that you think of when listing off great ABBA songs.

This is just too damn long. I can’t in good conscience give this a 1 because all the songs are good. Fitzgerald is likely a top 5 greatest singer of the 20th century. Nelson Riddle’s arrangements are excellent. But when you have them for over 3 continuous hours it just becomes a slog.

Outside of “Song 2” this album is mostly just a big nothingburger.

This would be an incredible album if it was roughly a half hour shorter