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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
We Are Family Sister Sledge	5	3.48	+1.52
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest	5	3.61	+1.39
Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan	4	2.68	+1.32
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	5	3.78	+1.22

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Aladdin Sane David Bowie	1	3.61	-2.61
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.4	-2.4
The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	1	3.03	-2.03
Warehouse: Songs And Stories Hüsker Dü	1	2.86	-1.86
Group Sex Circle Jerks	1	2.74	-1.74
The Cars The Cars	2	3.67	-1.67
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	2	3.65	-1.65
Idlewild Everything But The Girl	1	2.58	-1.58
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Green R.E.M.	2	3.47	-1.47

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1-Star Albums (6)

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Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

His outlaw era is better. This is more like his "unpaid parking ticket" era.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Wild Horses always makes me cry, but The Rolling Stones are much better at singles than albums.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

So special to have this much banter on the record. The best part to me was when Kurt says “I guarantee you I will screw this song up” and then delivers one of the greatest covers in history.

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

I try so hard with REM. I sit down and listen intently. I clear distractions. I make sure I’m in a good mood. I do everything to try and like them, for I know they are so influential to more than a handful of my favorite bands. And yet, I can never get into it. I never enjoy it apart from the hits- and I don’t even like all the hits. This album does absolutely nothing for me but I’m glad that there are people out there that love it.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

1/5

One of Bowie’s worst early career albums. I can’t imagine any reason for its inclusion on this list other than its iconic cover making people overstate the significance of the music itself.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards' master work - handily among the greatest albums of all time (whether determined by this stupid 1001 list or otherwise). Maybe I'm hallucinating on the hoagie fumes, but the sisters, Rodgers, and Edwards bring something distinctly "Philadelphia" to disco here. "We Are Family" is perfect in every sense and I will never say no to a cover-to-cover listen. I want to give a special mention to my favorite Sister Sledge track - "Thinking of You" - which is certainly not overlooked per se but does seem to take a back seat to the other side one hits in the contemporary cannon.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

A little sugary but there are some good ones here, especially "Our House." Great for a calm and quiet morning. Update, six hours later: I have "Our House" on repeat. I cannot stop listening to it, it's so beautiful.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

When I first listened to this, I thought "I must be in the wrong mood to listen." However, after revisiting it multiple times over a couple of days, I can safely say that I do not like this album. It is grating.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Pretty good

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

I ate this hipster stuff up 2011-2014 but it feels so dated now. It feels like a dream, but I'd rather be awake.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

From what little I know about Everything But the Girl, it seems like they were one of the last Sophisti-pop holdouts. I think as they aged, they got closer to a Sade sound. As for this earlier album, it's a miss on many fronts. I don't know why it's included on this list. All of the songs feel like karaoke ballads (derogatory).

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Not really a Neil Young fan and not for lack of trying. "Heart of Gold" is one of his best songs, but there's not much here for me otherwise.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

There is better hair metal out there but this is pretty good. Wish it had been more synth-forward as the beginning tracks implied.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

1/5

if REM decided to make the worst punk album you’ve ever heard.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

How did they do this THREE times??

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Some truly transcendent work here

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

Not interested in this at all

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

The Cars

2/5

They are a greatest hits type band and I can't even listen to all the hits.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Listened to this on a cold, rainy morning

Van Halen

3/5

I think this is better than 1984. Feels less transitional.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Idk man, my mind knows this one is important but I've never really gotten into Pearl Jam.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

Queen albums cover to cover are torturous. This is a greatest hits band

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Last two tracks were so good, but the rest were whatever.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Have been familiar with part IV for a while, nice to hear the whole thing.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

This felt dated at first but there were some really high points.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

1/5

drafts should stay in drafts

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

good and very philadelphia

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

"Green Onions" is one of the three songs that the septuagenarian Italian-American blues band plays at Bob and Barbara's in Philly every weekend. Anyway, I make sure that I get out of there as fast as I can once they start to set up. Wish I could have run away from this album too.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

It is annoying that I have been randomly assigned four Neil Young albums over one month and I would like to hear something else besides 70s folk rock in general (whose dad made this list anyway?) but still, this one is pretty good.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

I think a lot of people's affinity for this comes out of the Dennis Wilson's tragic life. I'm ambivalent about both.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

The way every song returns to the titular - perfection.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

1/5

Damon Albarn expended his entire creative energies on Demon Days and almost everything after has been complete shit.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Kind of a superficial album lyrically and soncially, released at the beginning of a worldwide revolution.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Really interesting work. Feels like a monumentally important album in the history of sampling.