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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.19	+1.81
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Amnesiac Radiohead	5	3.41	+1.59
The Clash The Clash	5	3.53	+1.47
Dire Straits Dire Straits	5	3.72	+1.28
Planet Rock: The Album Afrika Bambaataa	4	2.79	+1.21
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin	5	3.93	+1.07
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
New York Dolls New York Dolls	1	3.12	-2.12
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.87	-1.87
Reggatta De Blanc The Police	2	3.44	-1.44
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	2	3.43	-1.43
En-Tact The Shamen	1	2.43	-1.43
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	2	3.25	-1.25
Fetch The Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple	2	3.2	-1.2
Vivid Living Colour	2	3.2	-1.2
Solid Air John Martyn	2	3.17	-1.17
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	2	3.12	-1.12

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's · 1 likes

3/5

Please sir, may I have less organ?

4-Star Albums (22)

1-Star Albums (3)

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Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

I appreciate the skill and talent on display here but jazz just isn’t for me. The songs all sound pretty much the same to my untrained ears.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Dire Straits

5/5

Fantastic album on first listen. Amazing that this was a debut album. Really enjoyed it.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

For some reason I just don't "get" Fiona Apple and this album didn't help, at all. The first song ends with shrieking and it didn't really get any better for me. There were a couple of decent songs but overall this was a tough listen for me.

Gorillaz

4/5

Stephen Stills

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Phil Spector is obviously a bad person, but this is obviously an incredible album. Just skip the last "song" which is basically just Spector speaking. Everything else is fantastic.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

I think the only Alice Cooper song I heard before listening to this album was School's Out, which is the first track. I wasn't prepared for the rest of the album to veer into concept album/musical territory. Not my thing, but interesting album.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Impressive musicianship for sure, but a bit bland and too little variation for me. A 2.5 that becomes a 3 because we have to vote with whole numbers.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

Cult of Personality is a great song. The rest didn’t do anything for me. Not a fan of that particular style of rock.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

I agree with the folks who said this sounds like music you expect to be playing in a hotel. K.D. has a fantastic voice, no question about it, but this style does nothing for me. Hate to give out a one but I literally didn’t like any song on the album.

#1 Record

Big Star

4/5

Was only familiar with Thirteen before listening to this one. Really enjoyed the whole album. Can definitely see how this influenced so many other pop/rock artists.

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

I feel torn on this album. I like David Gray a lot and this is almost certainly his best album. However, it definitely isn't an album I would say someone needs to hear before they die. It's pretty normal singer-songwriter pop music overall. For nostalgia reasons it is a 5/5 for me, but if I'm being honest it is more of a 3/5 in reality. It starts incredibly strong with "Please Forgive Me" and "Babylon" which are genuinely great pop songs, and it ends fairly strongly with "This Year's Love", "Sail Away", and a great (if perhaps a bit long) cover song, "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye", but if I take my nostalgia goggles off I have to admit that the middle of the album doesn't maintain the momentum of the beginning or rise to the same level as the final group of songs. So, 3/5 it is.

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

1/5 only because 0/5 isn't an option. That was an absolutely brutal listen. Just the most generic sounding dance music possible. Nothing stood out.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

I consider Depeche Mode's next album "Violator" to be one of my all-time favorites, but this one doesn't quite reach the same heights for me. 3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

Feels a bit like an album that might play nonstop at Hot Topic. Pop/punk without any bite.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Amazing voice, impressive skills from the players, still just don't like jazz.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

So maybe it's not that I don't like jazz, it's that I don't like jazz vocals. Instrumental jazz isn't too bad. Really enjoyed this album.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Was only familiar with Relax before listening to this album, and never really cared for it. Surprisingly the album was better than I thought but kind of all over the place and definitely a few songs too long. Was anticipating a 1 or 2 for the album but it was more like a 3 for me.

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

I'm a bit torn on this album. On the one hand the lyrics seem like they were written by a middle school boy who is just trying to get attention by saying shocking or obscene things. On the other hand, I like the punk / early industrial sound a fair bit. Just based on the sound of the album I would give it a 4, but I have to lower it at least a little bit for the immature lyrics so it is a 3 for me.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

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Holger Czukay

3/5

If I never hear "Cool in the Pool" again I will be very happy. The rest of it was fine, but nothing really stood out in a positive way. I appreciate the inspiration this album seems to have had on future electronic music, so I'm bumping it up a bit to a 3.

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

Fantastic album. Shocked by how much I liked it. I didn't particularly enjoy the album "Mr. Tambourine Man" by The Byrds (gave it a 3) and so I went into this one expecting it to have a similar sound and feel. However, that is not the case. This was a much more musically interesting album and had a cohesive feel to it despite the songs touching on multiple genres. Will definitely revisit this one more often in the future. My first 5 that I was truly surprised by.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

4/5

Wasn't sure what to expect going in. This genre is outside of my normal listening habits but I really enjoyed the album.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

New York Dolls

1/5

I absolutely cannot stand this type of rock. I'm sure many enjoy it but I'm not one of them. Couldn't wait for this album to end.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

2/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

I love the Flight of the Conchords but had a hard time making it through this "comedy" album.

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Adele

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

I went into this one fully expecting to give it a 1 or 2 after how much I disliked "Fetch the Boltcutters". However, this album was fantastic. I knew "Criminal" was a great song going in, but the rest of the album was suprisingly good.

The Clash

5/5

I'm biased as I have loved The Clash for years, but this gets a 5 for sure. Great album, particularly for a debut, and clearly highly influential.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Radiohead is one of my favorite bands of all-time so this is an easy 5 for me. I love every song on here except Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind