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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bryter Layter Nick Drake	5	3.52	+1.48
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.54	+1.46
Yank Crime Drive Like Jehu	4	2.71	+1.29
Doolittle Pixies	5	3.74	+1.26
Vol. 4 Black Sabbath	5	3.75	+1.25
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	5	3.9	+1.1
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	4	2.95	+1.05

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Blunderbuss Jack White	1	3.4	-2.4
Follow The Leader Korn	1	2.66	-1.66

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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

It's ok, very 60s.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Great, baroque folk/pop music. I personally have purposefully (for some reason) held off listening to Nick Drake. Still on the fence around his vocals, not personally a fan, I find them too contrived and affected. The music is fantastic, great songwriting. I hear the influence in 90s bands such as Belle and Sebastian, et al. Great album.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Mid-tempo rockers, turning the page on the quiet-loud-quiet from the grunge era, adding their touches of Radiohead influence and brit-pop bombastic singing, this album is ok, if not a bit repetitive. Seems to occupy a safe space in rock-n-roll here, nothing "edgy" or similar. Songs are decent and easy sing-a-longs (albeit not Beatles sing-a-long good).

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Stadium anthemic pop punk that carries on the punk tradition of social commentary. Coming out post 9/11, during the Bush administration, its Green Day's take on the current state of America and the decay it sees in suburbia and the american psyche. Its a concept album, I assume, that has that steel thread of a american character passing through this place and time in history. Overall, good songs, better than my previous album of Coldplay, but they're all generic 90s/early-00s rock.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

1/5

I'm not sure why this on this list and not a White Stripes album. This album doesn't belong on a list like this.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

First time listen. Dancing Queen has almost 2 Billion listens on Spotify, wow! Good Album, 4.

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

Simple Minds

4/5

Its a nice album, ethereal 80s synths and reverb drums. Quite listenable, but dated as well. 4

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

4, quite synth heavy

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Riff-heavy, guitar really seems to be the focus of this album. Has a real 90s feel. 1 listen, 3 stars

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

5. The album begins with perhaps the most famous rattling chord in rock history to start an album. And it's the Beatles....5.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

I think this was the first vinyl LP I bought (1998 from the sticker), from the $1 bin of course :). One of rock's early supergroups, sounding like Simon & Garfunkel, just more 60s...man. The vocals, when singing together is great adding a layer of complexity to songs that are simple in their acoustic accompaniment. The strongest songs here written by Stills. 4

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

70s soul funk. Great band. 4

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

punk rock, kinda run-of-the-mill punk. 3.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Elvis Presley

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Seminal stoner metal, great overdriven, psych guitar riffing. Granted its Ozzy singing, but its not the focus really, it's all about them heavy riffs. The albums sequencing leans towards a live show with tracks bleeding into the next and perhaps a concept here. I've never really listened to Black Sabbath and I'm digging it. I'm going to have to get into more stoner metal. Probably a 4.5, but gotta round up here, I'm going to give it a 5.

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

Why are the drums so high in the mix and dry? The singer sounds like he's always on the brink of something, taking a shit, I'm not sure, but its like some affected stressed growl. This is just not my vibe. From a musical standpoint, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of melody or strong musicianship. This music stresses me out.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

I have not listened to this album or Pink Floyd in a long time. Remember getting into this in college, so years ago. The album dedicated to Syd Barrett is a great one, interesting songs and musicality abound in the album. 5.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Chill soul with touches of rap. Vocals, particularly the rap ones) seem somewhat down in the mix whereas the music seems to take the top. Quite listenable. 4.

Throwing Muses

3/5

3. It's ok.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

5, love this record

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

I'm between a 4 or a 5.

Yank Crime